Sukkah Decorations


Many persons affix embellishments and ornaments such as streamers, shiny ornaments, and pictures from the inside walls and overhead beams of a sukkah. Fresh, dried or plastic fruit including etrogs and the seven species for which Israel is complimented (wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates; see Deuteronomy 8:8) — are favourite embellishments.

Some households as well line the inside walls with white sheeting, in order to remember the "Clouds of Glory" that encompassed the Jewish nation throughout their wanderings in the desert. The Chabad tradition is not to embellish the sukkah, as the sukkah itself is thought over to be an article of glamour.

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