Sukkot is the Jewish holiday where the Children of Israel are enjoined to live in flimsy huts for a week as a remembrance of the way things were when their forefathers traveled for 40 years in the desert. Many Jews today not only take all their meals in their sukkot or huts, they even sleep in them. When i returned to the US after the Six Day War I did so on a ship. Theat was the same way I had traveled to Israel earlier.
The only regularly scheduled passenger ships between New York and Haifa were run by the Greek Line. They had Kosher facilities. The ship stopped in Piraeus for our Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur0 which I spent at a local synagogue. Not speaking Greek didn’t matter. The prayers were in Hebrew and the ritual was identical to what I had become accustomed in Israel. Then we set sail again.
The ships’ carpenter built a little wooden enclosure on the after part of the ship for the more observant passengers. Three of us ate all our meals there while we transited the Mediterranean. We were in little hut, but instead of being surrounded by sandy or rocky desert we had the blue sea on all sides. It was a truly unique experience.
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