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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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“Ushpizin” is Aramaic for “guests,” a reference to the seven supernal guests, “founding fathers” of the Jewish people, who come to visit us in the sukkah, one for each of the seven days of the festival. In Chabad tradition, each day also has its Chassidic...
As we fill our sukkah with earthly guests, we merit to host seven supernal guests.
The Supernal Sukkot Guests
Who are the ushpizin (the saintly guests who visit the Sukkah), what is the connection to Sukkot, and what is the deeper meaning behind this mystical tradition?
On Sukkot we are visited in the sukkah by the seven ushpizin, “guests”; why do they come and what does it mean?
The Kabbalists of the Zohar took great pleasure in receiving Sukkah guests.
The Kabbalists of the Zohar took great pleasure in receiving Sukkah guests.
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) ...
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...
Discover the difference in the unity represented by the Four Kinds versus the unity of the Sukkah. And learn the spiritual reason behind the Chabad custom to shake the Lulav specifically in the Sukkah.
Who are the special guests who visit our Sukkah?
A Torah teaching for each night, from that night's Chassidic "visitor."
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