“Ushpizin” is Aramaic for “guests,” a reference to the seven supernal guests, “founding fathers” of the Jewish people, who come to visit us in the sukkah, one for each of the seven days of the festival. In Chabad tradition, each day also has its Chassidic visitor.
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Who and What Are the Ushpizin As we fill our sukkah with earthly guests, we merit to host seven supernal guests.
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13 Facts You Should Know About Ushpizin—the Sukkot Spiritual Guests Who are the special guests who visit our Sukkah?
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Seven Teachings of Seven Tzadikim for Seven Joyous Nights of Sukkot A Torah teaching for each night, from that night's Chassidic "visitor."
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Connecting the “Guests” of Each Night Drawing parallels between the classic Ushpiz and his Chassidic counterpart.
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A Teaching and Story for Each Night A night-by-night compilation of Chassidic teachings, stories, and connections for all seven nights of Sukkot.
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Videos on the Ushpizin The Supernal Sukkot Guests
This series explains the meaning of the mystical guests who visit the Sukkah each day of Sukkot. In addition to the classic ushpizin, there’s a tradition of Chassidic ushpizin. Rabbi Raskin endeavors to correlate the two sets of revered visitors.
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A Podcast About the Ushpizin On Sukkot we are visited in the sukkah by the seven ushpizin, “guests”; why do they come and what does it mean?
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