A Succos Fable

Unfortunately for the little family, the little patch of land was in a bad neighborhood. At night, rocks sometimes shattered their windows. When the children weren’t careful to lock up their bikes, sometimes they went missing. And then there were worse things, scarier things. Sometimes the neighbors made threats: You have no right to that house of yours, it’s really ours. We’re going to get rid of you and take it back.

The family huddled together and tried to ignore the threats, but then they checked the news and found out that the violent neighbors had guns and rockets and were training their teenagers to use them.

The family was scared.

But not for long, because they came up with a great idea. They built a big, beautiful fence around their property. They even attached high-tech sensors to the fence, so they would know if the neighbors were trying to invade.

They asked their teenage daughter and her friends to keep monitoring the sensors. And they got their teenaged son and his friends to learn how to use guns, too, even bigger and better guns than the bad neighbors had.