jewishhenna:An Ushpizin / Ushpizata Poster for your SukkahOn the holiday of Sukkot (which begins ton
jewishhenna:An Ushpizin / Ushpizata Poster for your SukkahOn the holiday of Sukkot (which begins tonight) it’s traditional to invite guests into your sukkah… Not just friends and family, but also spiritual and mythological ancestors. In particular, each of the seven nights is traditionally associated with a (male) Biblical figure based on Qabbalistic correspondences of each night with one of the lower seven sefirot: these seven guests are known as ushpizin, Aramaic for “guests” (ultimately from the Latin hospes, the same root as the word hospitality!).Over the centuries several rabbis and scholars have suggested female correspondences to the ushpizin, known as the ushpizata. The order that I use here is based on the one from R. David Seidenberg:Abraham / Ruth (hessed)Isaac / Sarah (gevura)Jacob / Rebecca (tiferet)Moses / Miriam (netzah)Aaron / Deborah (hod)Joseph / Tamar (yesod)David / Rachel (malkhut)This poster has their names, arranged in the proper Qabbalistic order of the sefirot, along with the prayer for inviting the ushpizin/ata into the sukkah (you can also download it, with a translation, here), and the wish from the liturgy that G!d will “spread over us the sukkah of peace.”Feel free to download this, share widely, print out and hang it in your sukkah! Or use it to spark a conversation about which guests you would like to invite to your sukkah. May this Sukkot bring us closer to rebuilding the Divine Sukkah of Peace. Hag sameah! -- source link
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