Succoth is a special time of year. Families leave their homes and joyfully go live in their small succahs, discovering in the process how little they need to be truly happy. Every family finds a way to imprint their succah with their own style, their own creative flair, if for no other reason than to make them easier to locate in the maze of succahs downstairs. Each family has their individual collection of kindergarten masterpieces, pictures of Jerusalem, decorated posters of Talmudic sayings, tinsel, greenery, and all things arba minim.

When my son got married, two and a half years ago, I discovered something new: The Succah theme. The Eisenbach family, into which he had married, has decorated their succah with a different theme each year, usually chosen by my newly minted, and very creative daughter-in-law, Tzion. The........

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