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68: No Place Like Home

Israel Story

Israel Story

Judaism, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Israel

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Sukkot is the Jewish holiday of temporary homes. And in our episode today we hear two very different stories - the first about one of Israel's most popular children's books and the second about a South Sudanese asylum seeker. But both of them are, deep down, about the same thing - making a home. 

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0:00.0

Analia Bortz from Jerusalem is one of those people who seems to have lived multiple lives.

0:06.0

I grew up in Argentina. We made Alia a year ago.

0:10.0

She's a medical doctor.

0:12.0

And I'm a bioethicist.

0:14.0

And she's also, and this was the reason for our chat.

0:18.0

A rabbi. In fact, she told me she was...

0:21.0

The first female rabbi in South America, ordained in 1994.

0:25.0

That's quite a list of things to be.

0:28.0

Yes, but actually today my passion is just to take care of the family,

0:32.0

to indulge my granddaughter, to do a lot of art, and to study archaeology.

0:40.0

Yeah. Enjoying it.

0:44.0

All right, so we are just about to celebrate Sukkot.

0:49.0

Can you explain a little bit what Sukkot is all about?

0:52.0

So Sukkot is a wonderful holiday. It's the relationship with the land,

0:57.0

the sense of belonging without being anchored in a place.

1:02.0

So for seven days, we go out of our permanent homes,

1:07.0

and we live outside our permanent homes.

1:10.0

Basically, it's a little bit of how the Jewish people are in our history,

1:15.0

we just pick up our Oalim, our tents, and we just move to another place.

1:22.0

And what exactly is a Sukkot?

1:24.0

So Sukkot is a non-permanent structure.

1:26.0

According to the Talmud, it has to have at least two and a half non-permanent walls,

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