The Board of Deputies of British Jews is encouraging members of the Jewish community to save a Sukkah Seat for a Hostage, urging people to “remember those in captivity, learn their stories and do not let them be forgotten”.
https://bod.org.uk/sukkot-ushpizin
The Board of Deputies of British Jews is encouraging members of the Jewish community to save a Sukkah Seat for a Hostage, urging people to “remember those in captivity, learn their stories and do not let them be forgotten”.
The initiative, launched in the wake of the one-year anniversary of the October 7th mass-terror attacks by Hamas, cites the kabbalistic concept of the Ushpizin, the idea that on each night of the festival people’s Sukkot are graced by the presence of one of the great people in Jewish history. “Ushpizin” literally means “visitors” in Aramaic, and it is the Board’s hope that people will also select a hostage to focus on in their Sukkah.
We encourage everyone to join in the ‘Save a Seat at the Sukkah’ campaign.
The Board, together with the Hostages and Missing Families Forum and the Union of Jewish Students, is encouraging individuals, families, communities, schools and University JSocs to set an extra place at the sukkah for one of the 101 men, women, young adults and children still held captive by Hamas. The Board’s website contains an updated folder of the posters of the hostages, alongside information relating to each of them. These posters can be printed and placed on the saved seat.
You are encouraged to share pictures of that seat with a hostage poster on social media, sharing the story of that hostage and amplifying their plight, with #SukkahSeatForAHostage.
