חג סוכות שמח

Sukkot means many things, but most importantly for me it means some time off. Things have been crazy since I arrived in Israel a month and a week ago, so it's been great to have some time off to relax and get some things done. Nearly every restaurant has its own Sukkah for the holiday so that people can eat there while still performing the mitzvah of sitting in the Sukkah, and everyone carries around their lulav and etrog in protective bags and boxes. Since I've been on break, Amalia and I have been doing some miscellaneous things, from finishing up our Israeli bank account process to getting things for our apartment at the good ol' Malcha mall. We have also been doing quite a bit of relaxing in our apartment and cooking various wonderful things with the cheap fruits and veggies we get downstairs at the shuk. Today while Amalia was practicing I decided to take a walk down to the Old City to see what the haps were down there, and I ended up exploring some great little streets I hadn't been down before, as well as some great views of the Kotel. This evening, we decided to check out a concert near the municipality building, which ended up being mostly young religious families listening to a funny aging man "sing," so we headed down to the Old City (again) and there were surprisingly a lot of people there. Anyway, I will stop rambling and show a few pictures I took tonight that have little relevance to what I have been blogging about.

Chag Sameach,
Sam