Okay, so last night was Sushi in the Sukkah. I know it’s not a super novel concept anymore, but it’s an event that everyone in Bozeman loves and it is SO much fun. We have the best sushi chefs. They come to our kitchen and spend all day making high-end, delicious, gourmet sushi. And this year was beautiful.
Over a hundred people. It was just so much fun to watch people enjoy the sukkah, enjoy each other, enjoy the holiday.
There were people everywhere. Tons of people in the sukkah, a kids’ art project going on in the dining room, tons of kids playing outside in the yard. Everywhere you turned, people were chatting and talking and connecting.
And, of course, lots and lots of sushi :).
And then there were all these little Sukkos moments happening in the middle of it all.
It’s so much fun. And it’s really special.
This is one of those moments where you can just stand back and feel so blessed and lucky to live in Bozeman, to have this incredible community, and to be able to facilitate an incredible community. It’s really, really cool.
And we have a little tradition, my husband and I, after the party. Our sushi chef makes me special sushi because I don’t like raw fish. I know, it’s crazy :).
So he makes me some cooked sushi, makes my husband his favorites, and after everyone leaves, we sit and eat sushi together.
Which is really nice.
In Totally Unexpected! land…
If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode with Rabbi David Aaron yet, go listen! I still can’t get over hearing Rabbi Aaron’s origin story. How he went from being an angsty, rebellious teenager in Toronto to discovering Kabbalah in Jerusalem at eighteen. Totally unexpected if you ask me…
Listen here:
Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube
And just like that, we are somehow at the end of this month of holidays. Is that crazy?? The next time you hear from me, Tishrei will be over and we’ll officially be on the other side.
Which also means that we are getting back to our regularly scheduled programming :). A brand-new episode of Totally Unexpected! is coming out on Monday, and Substack will be back every Tuesday. Monday’s episode will still not have a voice-note outro, but the prompts are officially coming back! We’ll send out a new question based on something from the episode, you’ll send me your voice notes, and the voice-note section will be back in the episode after that.
I missed hearing from you guys!!
For now, wishing you all a beautiful Yom Tov. Enjoy these last days, soak up whatever you can, survive whatever you need to 😂, and I’ll see you on the other side.
🩷 Chavie