Sunday, October 08, 2006

The Non-Sukkah Sukkah

Our apparently secular Israeli neighbor has given into pressure from the kids. Here's what the dialogue must've been (but in Hebrew, of course)...

KIDS: We want a sukkah!

PARENTS: We're not religious - we're not building a sukkah.

KIDS: But, all our friends have sukkot, why can't we have a sukkah like the other kids?!

PARENTS: No!

KIDS: We don't go to school during Sukkot because it's a holiday. All our friends eat and sleep in their sukkot with their families so it must be important and so we should have one too!

PARENTS: But we're different from your friends families - they're religious and we're not!

KIDS: C'mon!

PARENTS: No!

KIDS: Pleeeeeesssseeee! (in Hebrew - B'vaaaaaakkkkkaaaaa-sh-sh-sh-sh-aaaaaa!)

PARENTS: Fine, fine, enough already! We'll get you a sukkah and you can sleep in your tent in the sukkah!

KIDS: Yay!


The result is a non-sukkah sukkah (notice that there's nothing on top and it's not really a sukkah if you sleep in a tent inside the sukkah)...

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