Next Stop

Our car has been dead for a few weeks already.

This fit in well with my DH's DT (Devar Torah) connecting the mitzva to live in a sukka with this being our holiday of Thanks (Hag HaAsif):

Hag HaAsif is our holiday to say Thank You to HaShem for all the fruit we have harvested over the summer, that which we have already eaten as well as that which will soon be wine, oil, etc.  

Sukkot is a holiday in which we live in a small booth for week.  We sit on plastic chairs, sleep on a crooked floor, and the mosquitoes try to eat more than we do.  

The connection, DH says, is that on these days of Sukkot, we realize that we can live on a lot less than we actually do.  We are capable of sleeping on mattresses on the  floor.  We won't die if our food gets a bit colder on its longer route to the table.   Our temporary booth is beautiful with the decorations that didn't cost hundreds of sheqel at an art gallery.   

AND, the clincher, THE REST OF THE YEAR, we live a life of luxury.  We have couches, beds, glasses that didn't break.  Our children don't have to share one bedroom.   In our personal case, we own a car that has spaces for all of us.   

So much to be thankful for.

And the bus rides were fun.   Especially when the sign inside the bus says "next stop: happy days."