Shavuos

[trypheanoia]

Stay up all night telling stories and eating cake.

If a child were to design a Jewish holiday, how different would it be?

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[trypheanoia]

Thanks. :)

You know, there's nothing stopping you from instituting any number of fun customs into your own practice.

So long as it reflects what you believe in, and the general symbolic structure of your paradigm.

There are many plans for succas which would make a splendid temporary, outdoor temple space for any number of purposes.

Of course, my favorite part of Succot has always been the lulav and etrog, which you use to hail the four directions which pertain to, not the four elements, but the four types of Jews: those who know the law and follow it, those that know the law but don't follow it, those who don't understand the law, but follow it anyway, and those who niether know nor follow the law.

Whatever. I still think of it as the four elements.

[trypheanoia]

I wrote an article at some point, about those connections. Eerie little things such as Dionysos being born in the same town where the cedars were taken to build the doors of the Holt Temple in Jerusalem, sharing epithets like "inneffable." And other, smaller things