Entering a sukkah
Sukkot celebrations in Brooklyn, NY.
These pictures offer a glimpse into the street life of Borough Park and Crown Heights, during the 2018 weeklong holiday of Sukkot.
Like every year, the Jewish neighborhood celebrated the harvest holiday that also marks the wanderings of the Jews through the desert after the Exodus, spending as much time as possible in the sukkah, the temporary outdoor shelter open to the sky, in which they eat meals with friends and family.
Just like a sukkah, everything is fleeting, and everything is temporary and I wanted to immortalize some of these fleeting moments, some of the striking features of street life that gave the neighborhood the air of spiritual festivity.
Morning prayer (view from the women section)
Hasidic kids playing in the streets of Brooklyn
A "women only" gathering during Sukkot's celebrations.
Hasidic boy
Men listening to their Rabbi
Sukkot morning prayer services. Worshippers holding and waiving the Four Species during communal prayer services.
Men rushing to listen to their rabbi's sermon.
Men studying the Talmud and praying inside a Sukkah
Man sitting inside a sukkah after an evening meal.
Sukkot morning prayer services. A major focus of public worship on Sukkot is the waving of the "Four Kinds" during communal prayer services.
Nightly celebrations that include street dancing and singing.
Man with a lulav (date palm tree) rushing in the empty streets to an early morning prayer.