Sukkot and Shabbat Chol-Hamoed - 2024

Chevre, tonight and tomorrow is Chag Sukkot (סֻכּוֹת). Outside of Israel, the Chag will be 2 days and will flow directly into Shabbat Chol-Hamoed. So I won’t be posting another Dvar Torah on Friday, even though I’m in Israel. This year in Israel there is a paradox between building our flimsy huts outside and keeping in mind that we may need to run into our bomb shelters. In a more normal year, we would spend Shabbat Chol-Hamoed with cousins that live near Tiveria, but those cousins are coming to us because of the distance of their Succah from the house and the probability of having a siren in their town verse the probability of having a siren in our town.