“Have you heard?”
Sholem Aleichem's charming
short story for Sukkos – "Der
Esreg" (‘The Esrog’)
Our beloved holiday Sukkos has
arrived. This is the yontef when we eat in a sukkah and celebrate the harvest, as well as the protection which the Jews found in the desert after their liberation from Egypt. One of the rites performed on Sukkos is the blessing over the lulav and esrog.
In Sholem Aleichem’s short story
“Der Esreg” we get to know a boy
who can’t wait to get his hands on the esrog, but in his case, not necessarily to make a blessing.....
