ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the detailed analysis of the sukkah that shows image and text actually overlap; text and space are intricately interwoven. In the ritual houses several real and imagined places are referenced at the same time: the local, Jerusalem and the Holy Land, the text, and god's presence; hence each one creates a hybrid place of belonging. The architecture of the sukkah will be reviewed in relationship to its social, religious, and emotional connotations in order to more closely examine the concepts and sentiments of those who regulate, build, and dwell in the spaces. The religious texts are read alongside the photographs of contemporary sukkahs, which are the outcome of the empirical fieldwork in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Holland, Israel, and the United States. The sukkah is both a personal architecture and a communal ritual. There is surprisingly little literature that deals with the sukkah from other vantage points like psychology, political studies, or cultural studies.
