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BY: ARLENE FINE Senior Staff Reporter
Despite the general downturn in new construction, there will be a flurry of building at Jewish homes during the next week.
In honor of the holiday of Succot, hundreds of succot will be constructed off back porches, on decks, next to a garage, by a back door, or in the middle of a backyard.
Beverly Seaman’s family has been following the commandment to dwell in the succah, or at least invite family and friends for meals or harvest treats in their succah, for the past 20 years.
“I love our succah and enjoy having our son and sons-in-law come over to help us build it each year,” says the Beachwood resident. “I keep all the decorations our grandchildren made at the Gross Schechter Day School, and it is a thrill when they come and help me put them up. The walls become a family scrapbook, and the holiday gives us a strong connection to Judaism, tradition and continuity.”
During harvest time in ancient times, Jews would gather materials they found in the desert or wherever they were dwelling to construct their succot or portable booths. They used animal hide, tree branches, corn stalks and bamboo reeds. Nowadays, it has gotten much easier to construct a succah. “Pop-up” prefab succot are available at local stores and on the Internet, ranging in price from several hundred dollars to $1,200.
Jacob’s Judaic in Cleveland Heights and Woodmere has plenty of succot in stock. Cost depends on size. A complete 6’x8’ succah sells for $599, and a 10’x16’ succah goes for $1,199. “Two people can easily put these succot together quickly,” says Jacob’s Judaic owner Jay Steingroot. The newer succot are now made with different colors of nylon parachute-type material for durability.
Handymen or -women can visit Lenny Goldfarb’s Cedar Center Hardware for their succah-building supplies. He carries lumber, staples, staple guns, temporary lighting, fasteners, Plexiglas, door handles, and blue poly tarps.
“A do-it-yourselfer can build an adequate succah for around $400,” says Goldfarb. “Along with the building supplies, I also recommend wasp and hornet traps. Yellow jackets like honey and apples, too.”
For people who are unable to build their own succot, handyman and home remodeler Shimshe Taub is there to help for a fee. Each year Taub and his crew put up and take down an average of 25 succot. He will even build one from scratch.
And the good news? Not one of his succot has ever faced foreclosure.
afine@cjn.org
In honor of the holiday of Succot, hundreds of succot will be constructed off back porches, on decks, next to a garage, by a back door, or in the middle of a backyard.
Beverly Seaman’s family has been following the commandment to dwell in the succah, or at least invite family and friends for meals or harvest treats in their succah, for the past 20 years.
“I love our succah and enjoy having our son and sons-in-law come over to help us build it each year,” says the Beachwood resident. “I keep all the decorations our grandchildren made at the Gross Schechter Day School, and it is a thrill when they come and help me put them up. The walls become a family scrapbook, and the holiday gives us a strong connection to Judaism, tradition and continuity.”
During harvest time in ancient times, Jews would gather materials they found in the desert or wherever they were dwelling to construct their succot or portable booths. They used animal hide, tree branches, corn stalks and bamboo reeds. Nowadays, it has gotten much easier to construct a succah. “Pop-up” prefab succot are available at local stores and on the Internet, ranging in price from several hundred dollars to $1,200.
Jacob’s Judaic in Cleveland Heights and Woodmere has plenty of succot in stock. Cost depends on size. A complete 6’x8’ succah sells for $599, and a 10’x16’ succah goes for $1,199. “Two people can easily put these succot together quickly,” says Jacob’s Judaic owner Jay Steingroot. The newer succot are now made with different colors of nylon parachute-type material for durability.
Handymen or -women can visit Lenny Goldfarb’s Cedar Center Hardware for their succah-building supplies. He carries lumber, staples, staple guns, temporary lighting, fasteners, Plexiglas, door handles, and blue poly tarps.
“A do-it-yourselfer can build an adequate succah for around $400,” says Goldfarb. “Along with the building supplies, I also recommend wasp and hornet traps. Yellow jackets like honey and apples, too.”
For people who are unable to build their own succot, handyman and home remodeler Shimshe Taub is there to help for a fee. Each year Taub and his crew put up and take down an average of 25 succot. He will even build one from scratch.
And the good news? Not one of his succot has ever faced foreclosure.
afine@cjn.org
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