n>A rebbe’s sukkah, with its high bamboo ceiling and billowing canvas walls, is outdoors and indoors and also strangely beyond the physical world, although the one I visited on Wednesday night happens to be in Borough Park. The tisch that happens inside the sukkah most nights of Sukkot is an unreal, sublime event. On a high platform behind the dais are the seven thrones of the ushpizin, the invisible visitors to the sukkah. Seats await Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David, and they do not feel the least bit empty, floating above the shtreimel-capped sea of guests below them. Read Full Article »