In photos: Rabbi goes mobile for Sukkot
Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky spent the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot driving his mobile Sukkah from campus to campus in Ottawa. The temporary wood shelter symbolizes life's ephemerality and is typically erected behind homes with the tradition of eating every meal in it. But because of the holiday coinciding with midterms, many students can't fulfill the custom. So, Boyarsky, a rabbi for the Rohr Chabad Student Network of Ottawa, brought the sukkah to them. Some ate their lunch inside the sukkah, and others said a blessing and shook the Lulav and Etrog. The bouquet, made up of willows, a palm branch, etrog (a lemon-like fruit) and myrtles, is shaken during the holiday to represent unity of all kinds of jews, learned, practicing, non-practicing, as each ingredient has a different taste, smell, or none at all.
Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky hugs a student on the street beside his mobile sukkah.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
Chelsea Suave shakes the Lulav and Etrog in Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky's mobile sukkah.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
A student's necklace displays her Hebrew name around her neck at The University of Ottawa.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky waits for students as he holds a Lulav and Etrog.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky texts and emails students he thinks will want to step into his mobile sukkah.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
Carleton student Tal Klachook talks with Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky as she takes part in Sukkot.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky texts and emails students he thinks will want to step into his mobile sukkah.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
Vladimir Shuster holds the Lulav and Etrog in Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky's mobile sukkah.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky laughs with student Michael Shkolnik at Carleton University.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail
A Lulav and Etrog sit in the back of Chaim's pickup truck.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail