1. A Home service for Sukkot
Using this PowerPoint presentation, you will:
know what is involved in a home service to celebrate Sukkot
appreciate that Sukkot is a shared family experience
develop an awareness and respect for the feeling being expressed during Sukkot

2. Tzedakah
Tzedakah is an important tradition for Jewish farmers, especially during harvest time. The Torah says for farmers to leave some of their crops in the fields so the poor can come and glean them
Today, some families give to shelters and soup kitchens to help feed the hungry.

3. Sukkot is welcomed by lighting candles.
Hadlakat Nerot
Sukkot is welcomed by lighting candles.

4. Kiddush blesses the wine and people think about their history.

5. Hamotzi
People eat ‘challah’ a type of bread and say thank you for the harvest.

6. Blessing for Sukkot
Shabbat is a day of rest, it is tradition not to work on this day. Shabbat is a central part of Jewish family life. It is a time for family and friends to get together for meals, prayer and relaxation. Shabbat begins Friday evening, for about 24 hours
Each morning during Sukkot (except during Shabbat) the Jews recite a blessing.

7. After the meal, they pray and say thank you to God.
Birkat Hamazon
After the meal, they pray and say thank you to God.

8. After the meal, people usually sing and spend time with one another in their sukkah.

9. Designed and Created by:
Beth Davies
Ysgol Penrhyn. New Broughton.
Wrexham.
June 2008