During the recent Jewish Holiday of Sukkot, Chabad of Bournemouth's Rabbi Bentzion Alperowitz took to the streets in an innovative travelling sukkah hut in order to enable Jewish people to celebrate the holiday.
With a sukkah constructed and placed in the back of a pickup truck, it helped bring the holiday right to people’s doorstep.
The sukkah, a temporary structure covered with vegetation or bamboo, commemorates the time the Jews wandered in the desert wilderness on their way to the Promised Land and the miraculous clouds that surrounded them.
The travelling sukkah visited Jewish students at Bournemouth's University and at the AECC.
It also visited senior residents who either don't have their own sukkah or find it difficult to leave their home and come to a sukkah.
A light snack was available in the sukkah to add to the enjoyment of the holiday.
Jews also take “Four Species” of plant life - a citron fruit, palm branch, willows twigs and myrtle stems - and shake them together with a special blessing on each the days of the festival.
A set of the “Four Species” was on offer in the sukkah.
"Our goal was to enable every person to participate," said Rabbi Alperowitz.
"The theme of Sukkot is to unify people".
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