Really resented the rain!

Posted: Sun, Sep 26 2010, 9:24 am Post subject: re: really resented the rain!

we don't know why Hashem does things, it is our duty to fulfill our mitzvos b'simcha. and women are excempt from eating in the sukka so I had no problem allowing my bas mitzva dd to eat in the house which she chose to do. sorry but you sound horrid complaining about a mitzva. If you were unhappy and did it anyway, no need to air it.
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Pina- I will be sure next time I post something of this nature to warn viewers in my title that I am "complaining about a mitzvah"- so that people like you dont need to be offended by my HORRID feelings. You are lucky you find the koach to fulfill all the Mitzvos b'simcha (except the ones of course where we watch how we speak to people oh and how we try to be dan l'kaf zechus before name calling). As for sharing my grievences, I would much prefer to air my grievences here on Imamother where most people can take them in the spirit that they are being written so that when I go into work tomorrow andwhen I am asked by coworkers if I enjoyed my holiday I can say with a smile on my face that of course I did, a little rain never gets me down!

In the spirit of the season, I do apologise for being "horrid" and hope that other mothers out there like mama-star (thanks for your support) can accept that this simply comes from a rained out frustrated, eruv bound mother who simply wanted some sunshine!

Posted: Sun, Sep 26 2010, 11:07 am Post subject: re: really resented the rain!

You are not being horrid at all.

I still remember when I lived in England, sitting in the frozen, wet sukkah, with the rain falling into our soup. And we used to hang fruit from the sechach (I wasn't yet Chabad in those days, when I was a child), but we didn't tie them very well, so we'd get the odd apple falling on our heads or into the soup as well!!!!

Those were definitely the days ...

All I can say to you is that rain is a sign of brocha, so may you have plenty of brochos in many other ways, and may the worst problems in life be an abundance of brochos within your sukkah ...

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Posted: Sun, Sep 26 2010, 1:07 pm Post subject: re: really resented the rain!

People tie fruits to decorate the suka? I've never seen it.

Posted: Sun, Sep 26 2010, 1:14 pm Post subject: re: really resented the rain!

We used to, where I grew up as a child. It was something they did at the shul I attended, so we thought it was a good idea. Never seen it anywhere else ...

And regarding the question about decorating sukkahs, Chabad don't put decorations on the schach so as not to detract from its beauty.

Posted: Sun, Sep 26 2010, 2:07 pm Post subject: re: really resented the rain!

we were guests in someone's Sukkah this year and so happy to be so. We were all oldsters, (really oldsters, lol.) 2 frum and one not frum survivor who had never been a Sukkah for a meal. We had a ball. It poured at one point. The Sukkah was packed. We could not move. Very Happy

Our friend was having the time of his life. Not knowing what eating in a Sukkah was about anyway, the more it rained the funnier he got. Then he got a rain drop in his tiny vodka cup and he he looked up and addressed his Creator saying "That's the vodka!" We were laughing so hard and having so much fun the Rabbi said we should train the others. I guess with a clown at every table, perhaps we could. A yid who didn't know he was not suppose to be soaked in the Sukkah. B"H
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Forget the rain, the mosquitos are horrible and for some reason I'm REALLY susceptible to being bitten. I got 8 bites on my legs just from one dinner. horrible.
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Posted: Mon, Sep 27 2010, 1:41 pm Post subject: re: really resented the rain!

If I recall, there are those who do not use fruits for succah decoration because of tamei potential from being in contact with water or dew.

There was actually a funny article referenced in JC that a certain restaurant hang a melon under the succah as an ornament last year. It fell down and exploded on someone's soup bowl...

As for the weather... C'est la vie! If it's a choice between too much rain and not enough rain, I'd definitely take the former. Having said that, I concede it's not fun having to manage just one proper meal under the succah for the first 3 days. It's even less yomtovdik when you get soaked--the worst bit is arriving at a guest's house so drenched you have to ask the hostess for a change of clothes... (It had happened to me before.)

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Golly, I thought the rain was kinda fun. I was worried about my menfolks getting caught in it on the way home from shul in their YT finery, and we had to hustle to bring everything that was on the table inside. We made kiddush and motzi in the sukkah with rain dripping down on us and ate the rest of the meal inside. It had been suffocatingly hot and with the rain everything cooled off and was much more pleasant.

As to fruit...a friend of ours told us they no longer hang up produce of any kind, including old esrogim, b/c what the squirrels don't ravage, the birds do!

Posted: Mon, Sep 27 2010, 3:14 pm Post subject:

lol! we got the heat and the rain. the first night we got caught in the downpour. it was drier to stay in the sukkah then to go back in and once we were wet we might as well stay. wet gefilte fish is interesting to eat. then the heat and now the rain. I guess the rain today is worse b/c its still going on. it didn't down pour and then end.