Tomorrow evening ushers in the Jewish festival of Sukkot (סוכות), painfully translated as "The Feast of the Tabernacles." You'll excuse me for referring to it by its Hebrew name henceforth.
It's a bit of a funny festival in that there are a bunch of rituals and traditions that lots of people don't understand. Not that they're by any means incomprehensible but they're just not as easy to interpret as apple and honey for a sweet New Year, or the contents of the seder plate whose explanations (on a basic level, at least) are reasonably apparent and commonsense.
Not so with Sukkot.
Nonetheless, Sukkot is a festival that continues the trend through the recent High Holydays of a growing sense of joy happiness, such that Sukkot is the festival for which we are told "ושמחת בחגיך והיית אך שמח" - be joyful on your festival and you will be only happy.
I very much intend to heed this command - with the arrival of my sweetheart tomorrow, I anticipate that I will indeed be happy and this festival will be particularly joyful.
May it be a great time for us all; may you have a chag sameach and a wonderful year.
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