Shabbat During Sukkot, October 21, 2016; 20 Tishrei 5777

Please rise for a minute. I want to open the ark. Okay, you can be seated now.

You’ll notice that we have two different colors of Torah covers. The large Torah has a green cover. That’s a Temple Etz Chaim special. It’s a cover just for shalosh regalim, the three Pilgrimage Festivals of Sukkot, Passover, and Shavuot. Before I got here, I’d never seen a special Festival Torah cover. I think it’s nice that we have something unusual like this.

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