Enjoy Sukkot surrounded by the natural beauty of the Berkshires! Mornings are filled with meaningful spirited prayer led by inspiring leaders amongst the tall trees and sparkling lake. Afternoons and evenings are packed with leisure activities, classes, and fun, including special programs for children. We offer the highest quality organic kosher meals to Jews of all denominations and backgrounds.

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On Sukkot, we dwell outside under the sun, moon, and stars. We top our sukkot with plants, and we carry plants as we pray. Sukkot invites us to commune with nature in a profound way.

We will be featuring thoughtful Chag-specific shiurim, and joyful prayer in Partnership Mechitza and Renewal minyanim. Educators and prayer leaders alike, such as Rabbis Shuli Passow, Ezra Weinberg, Avram Mlotek, and National Jewish Book Award Winning Author Michal Fox Smart will lead our community through thoughtful learning and ritual!

We also offer a series of outdoor classes throughout the holiday, as well as yoga, tours of our organic farm, and guided hikes on our trails.

While many of our activities are family friendly, there will also be some dedicated programs for kids. These will make use of our farm and the natural environment of the retreat center.

The Beit Kohenet track at Sukkahfest will help you connect to the more-than-human world—trees, creatures, stones, water, and earth, and the great Mystery—through Jewish sources, meditative practice, nature connection, and prayer.

Some of our session topics will include Jewish tales of sentient trees and stones, learning about the Shekhinah/feminine divine as a being who dwells within our ecosystem, animals in Jewish tradition, singing to connect to all of creation, and mystical, meditative experiences out in nature. We’ll pray in a joyful Jewish Renewal style that celebrates bodies and the earth, includes instruments, and uses multigendered God-language. Join us and enter the sukkah of the world, with a floor of soil, a roof of branches and the sky above.