{"id":11479,"date":"2026-09-29T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/senza-categoria\/sukkot-at-the-jewish-school-of-turin\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:22:18","slug":"sukkot-at-the-jewish-school-of-turin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/articles\/sukkot-at-the-jewish-school-of-turin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukkot at the Jewish School of Turin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who has visited\u2014or will visit during the final days of the festival\u2014the community Sukkah will immediately notice that one of the themes addressed this year by our school\u2019s teachers is hospitality, in its broadest sense. Hospitality is actively practiced every year as children fill the community-built Sukkah to decorate it, have snacks, sing, and study using special holiday booklets created by teacher Barbara Napolitano; through these, they learn about diverse aspects of the festival across a wide range of subjects.
\nSecondary school teachers integrated this chosen theme into their curricula, giving us the opportunity to explore hospitality through modules that went beyond standard lessons on Judaism\u2014such as those covering the hospitality shown in the tent of Abraham and Sarah, the Ushpizin<\/em> (spiritual presences of biblical figures who, according to Jewish mysticism, visit the Sukkah), and the duties and limitations that Halakhah (Jewish law) imposes even on the guest. We studied hospitality in the natural world, looking at animal “guests” that live alongside or upon other creatures, and examined the life of the wandering mathematician Paul Erd\u00f6s, who was hosted by many colleagues who influenced his research. We analyzed Moritz Daniel Oppenheim\u2019s famous 1867 painting Das Laubh\u00fcttenfest<\/em> (The Feast of Tabernacles), which documents Jewish life in Germany as it sought to balance fidelity to Jewish tradition with integration into the surrounding society. We also explored examples of hospitality and the acceptance of “the other”\u2014with varying outcomes\u2014in Italian literature, ranging from Giovanni Verga\u2019s short story Rosso Malpelo<\/em> to Fabio Geda\u2019s novel Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli <\/em>(In the Sea There Are Crocodiles). In music class, the students analyzed the song Ha’Oreach<\/em> (The Guest) by Naomi Shemer; it offers a very sincere look at the reception of Russian immigrants in Israel during the 1980s\u2014a time when the process was far from easy. Finally, accompanied by Professor Baruch Lampronti, the students visited the Terracini Archive to view various historical models of the Sukkah. <\/p>\n

Ruth Mussi<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Anyone who has visited\u2014or will visit during the final days of the festival\u2014the Community Sukkah will immediately notice that one of the themes addressed this year by our school’s teachers is hospitality, in the broadest sense. By Ruth Mussi. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torinoebraica.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}