Comments on: Sukkah Hopping

By: The Babysitter

The Babysitter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:21:59 +0000

I haven’t seen much sukkah hopping. I never saw the kids bring bags and collect candy.

I always associate Simchas Torah as the candy day. I was amazed at how many mothers didn’t want their kids to eat junk food in shul. When they were giving out Mondos, one mother said her kid never had one before and she doesn’t want them to start on it.

By: Leora

Leora — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:39:15 +0000

Louise, thanks for your perspective.

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:30:25 +0000

I guess kids of all faiths and persuasions are the same. Or maybe parents don’t always teach and control them. Although I am not Jewish and have never been near this holiday tradition, I am appalled at children taking bags AND at chidlren saying “this is not a good one.” I can promise my children would do neither. Yes, it DOES sound like a non-Jewish holiday coming up. And for that, when my kids go, they go attended not only for safety, but to make sure they are polite and teach them exactly how to be polite.

Kids NEED someone to say “no” to them!

By: Leora

Leora — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:08:00 +0000

I got this note on Facebook:
In response to Daniel’s use of the term in your blog: there is a term in the UK called “pub crawling” which is basically “pub hopping” – where a group of regular guys/drunk University students (to be stereotypical hah hah) go to a large number of drinking establishments in one night. I am certain “sukkah crawling” evolved from this phrase. I am not sure why it is termed “crawling” but presumably because by the end of the night you are so drunk you need to “crawl” home!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:14:03 +0000

What a lovely tradition Leora…I learned something new..

By: Leora

Leora — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:36:54 +0000

sukkah crawling
Daniel, would be interesting to learn how this strange term developed.

By: Daniel Saunders

Daniel Saunders — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:58:10 +0000

In the UK, we call this ‘sukkah crawling.’ I think ‘succah hopping’ is a much nicer term.

By: Leora

Leora — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:55:15 +0000

Progressive Sukkah lunch
Love the name…nowadays when I hear “progressive”, I automatically respond “progressing toward what?”

I think they had to stop doing those in our town because no one can “officially” trust anyone’s kashrut. And who wants to eat a succession of catered courses? It’s the homemade stuff that’s good.

By: mother in israel

mother in israel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:20:57 +0000

When I was in NCSY one of our favorite activities was the “Progressive Sukkah lunch.” It took a while for me to recall the name! Each family would serve a different course. At one family we would wash and have a main course, but I don’t remember details. One would serve fish, one dessert, and of course there were divrei torah. For some reason it got too hard to organize and we stopped having them. I remember about six to ten kids participating–this was “out of town.”

By: Leora

Leora — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:17:20 +0000

if you put vegetables on the table you were in trouble
Thanks for a good laugh! No forcing these kids to eat healthy.