LONG READS → TOP 5 Issue 830 · September 29, 2020

Top 5 Succah Decorations 

Because everyone knows that a properly decorated succah has to contain...

Top 5 Succah Decorations 

The kitchen? Think family prints and a fun “Live-Love-Eat Cookies” motif. (Less yichus here, usually)

The basement? Think shabby-chic/dirah-couture.

Whatever the room, it’s up to you to design as you please.

But decorating a succah? Now that must follow an age-old recipe, first created on the way out of Egypt by one interior designer, setting the stage for eons of succahs to come. Because everyone knows that a properly decorated succah has to contain these TOP 5 succah decorations….

1. A Bruchim Haba’im Sign

Handcrafted in a kindergarten, liberally decorated with triangles of colored paper and glued to a silver-foiled rectangle, this contemporary and timeless piece welcomes all succah hoppers. If you’re lucky, the sign will also contain a mugshot of said child (although no one really remembers which kid it was… they all looked alike at that age!), resplendent in a paint-splattered smock and holding a stuffed lulav and esrog, beaming at the camera. Since it’s hung by the child themselves, one can track the kid’s growth spurts by the leftover tape stuck to the succah door throughout the years.

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