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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


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Translated into English, the word loses some of its mystery and other-worldliness. Yet these "guests" are indeed quite mysterious (at least until we learn more about them) and other-worldly (at least until we make them part of ours)...
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On Sukkot we are visited in the sukkah by the seven ushpizin, “guests”; why do they come and what does it mean?
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The Kabbalists in the Zohar took great pleasure in receiving Sukkah guests
The Kabbalists in the Zohar took great pleasure in receiving Sukkah guests.
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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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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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