Canopy of Faith
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When their father added the chandelier to the sukkah, the reaction from the older Havivi children was similar: "Oh, Abba!" while rolling their eyes.
But for Rabbi Eliezer Havivi of Beth David Synagogue, the light fixture added an additional point of beauty to the sukkah, a canopy decorated each year as part of the Jewish Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles.
Sukkahs replicate the type of tents in which the ancient Israelites lived as they traveled across the desert after escaping from Egyptian slavery.
On Monday, the third-graders at B'nai Shalom Day School ate lunch under the Havivis' sukkah.
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Photo Caption: Daniel Havivi, 22, tells third-graders from Bnai Shalom Day School about his familys sukkah, which he and his father, Rabbi Eliezer Havivi, constructed at their home this year in celebration of Sukkot. The students in Boaz Avraham-Katzs Jewish studies cla...
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