Ushpizin, The

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Ushpizin, The: (Aramaic, lit. “honored guests”); seven leading figures in Jewish history who make noncorporeal visits to our sukkot on the holiday of that name

The Ushpizin

By Yanki Tauber

Translated into English, the word loses some of its mystery and otherworldliness. Yet these “guests” are indeed quite mysterious (at least until we learn more about them) and otherworldly (at least until we make them part of ours) . . .

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The Unpopular Tzaddik Story

By Yerachmiel Tilles

Rabbi Pinchas raised his eyes. There stood the first of the Ushpizin--the honored guest for the first night of the festival--outside the door of his sukkah...

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The Ushpizin Event

According to Kabbalistic tradition, we are visited in the sukkah by seven supernal ushpizin ("guests") -- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David. On each of the seven days of the festival, another of the seven ushpizin (in the above order) ...

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The Ushpizin of Sukkot Audio

By Yehuda Leib Schapiro

On Sukkot we are visited in the sukkah by the seven ushpizin, “guests”; why do they come and what does it mean?

Learning & Values » Audio Classes » Holidays » Sukkot & Simchat Torah

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