Sukkah competition - teach design to Mishnah and Mishnah to design

Turning the tables on tabernacles - Haaretz - Israel News

In the age of ready-made sukkah and easy-to-assemble kits, traditional, temporary strcutures seem to have lost some of their traditional uniqueness. People build their sukkah without thinking about design, Beiser said, partially because the holiday is so short, but also because it never occurs to them. The competition, therefore, encourages people to build sukkot that are "out of the box," in a way that attempts to teach religiously observant people about design, while also teaching designers about the laws, traditions and religious observances of Sukkot.

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In the age of ready-made sukkah and easy-to-assemble kits, traditional, temporary strcutures seem to have lost some of their traditional uniqueness. People build their sukkah without thinking about design, Beiser said, partially because the holiday is so short, but also because it never occurs to them.

The competition, therefore, encourages people to build sukkot that are "out of the box," in a way that attempts to teach religiously observant people about design, while also teaching designers about the laws, traditions and religious observances of Sukkot.

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