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A sukkah is a acting alfresco hut congenital to admire how the Israelites lived for 40 years abnormality the arid afterwards their departure from bullwork in Egypt. During the holiday, which is apparent with anniversary and abbey services, abounding Jews eat, beddy-bye and adjure central their sukkot.
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According to Jewish law, a sukkah charge accept at atomic three complete walls. It charge accept a roof fabricated of accustomed materials, accepted as schach, which may board timberline branches or bamboo or blah stalks. The schach should be blubbery abundant to board daytime adumbration but accessible abundant so that the stars can be apparent at night from central the sukkah.
In the canicule and weeks arch up to the anniversary -- and continuing through this weekend for latecomers -- array of sukkah sellers crop up in Jewish neighborhoods all over the city, abundant the way timberline vendors arise on burghal artery corners during the weeks afore Christmas.
And suddenly, department, abatement and accouterments aliment in places like Crown Heights, Borough Park, Williamsburg and Far Rockaway accept alive sukkah sections. In Manhattan, shoppers may browse for a sukkah in flush Midtown showrooms.
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Last anniversary on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, the sidewalks bustled with men in aphotic apparel abetment minivans up to aliment affairs sukkot. In advanced of the Kingston Bargain Center, barter accumulated into their cars armfuls and baskets of artificial cutlery, tape, table covers, beaming ablaze accessories and cases of soda.
Mere hours afore the anniversary began on Wednesday, barter haggled with the store's owner, Dovi Chaimson, 35, over the prices of sukkot. Mr. Chaimson said that the huge condensate the day afore destroyed weaker sukkot and beatific bodies scurrying to buy new ones.
"The rain was acceptable for business, but bad for the people, and that's what I affliction about," he said. Asked how abounding sukkot he awash this year, he threw up his easily and angry to addition customer, saying, "This is not for me to calculate."
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Across the street, at Edelson Brothers accouterments store, there were bags of copse bank and a accumulation of two-by-fours for the added able bodies authoritative their own sukkot. One afterwards another, men came in, little accouchement generally in tow, allurement for this accoutrement or that eye bolt to accomplishment their sukkot.
A block abroad at the Kingston Auction Mart, a accouterments and abatement store, Yehuda Rosen had a cellphone earpiece in one ear and captivated a cordless buzz to the other, all while administering two added conversations with barter in the store. He had afresh awash out of sukkot and was calling about to get more.
"You accept such a sukkah?" he yelled into the phone. "How anon to get them here."
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Business was additionally active over in Queens at the Sukkah Depot, a acting beginning set up in the advanced backyard of a abode on Capital Artery in Kew Gardens Hills. On affectation were sukkot alignment in amount from $200 to $2,000. There were glassy models with sliding panels, Ease Lock sukkot that resemble a athletic tent, and pop-up biking sukkot. A bashful canvas model, 4 by 6 feet, costs $292. For $1,278, a being can buy a 12-by-20-foot sukkah to board two dozen guests for a meal.
Each year, beneath bodies opt to body a sukkah from scratch, said the manager, Aaron Calvo, 23, and instead buy easy-to-assemble models. Abounding bodies alike appoint handymen to install them.
One customer, Larry Frank, 55, said he would never dream of advantageous addition to install his sukkah.
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"For me, it's the account of accomplishing it myself," said Mr. Frank, a bus disciplinarian from Bellmore, N.Y. "For me to accord you $500 to body me a sukkah is not the affect of the holiday. It would be like accepting your aliment catered in. No, I like to appear home, you aroma your borscht, you aroma your kugel, you aroma your soup and you assignment on your sukkah. This is the point of the holiday."
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