Just realized that we have no electricity in our SUKAH- WHAT

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Mevater

Tue, Sep 25 2007, 10:52 pm

do we do for light? We can't get an electrician to do the work tomorrow- how do we get enough light in our Sukkah with no electricity in that area?

Is there something portable - sort of like a Kosher lamp, but bigger?

Tehilla

Tue, Sep 25 2007, 10:55 pm

I have a fluorescent light and extension cord I'm not using this year.

you could do what we did and plug it inside the house, toss the cord out the window and hook it up inside.

you can borrow mine if you're in Brooklyn.

mummiedearest

Tue, Sep 25 2007, 10:58 pm

buy a storm lantern and use candles.

Tehilla

Tue, Sep 25 2007, 11:00 pm

yeah that's cool...but be very careful with the candles. kids sometimes run around into other people's sukkahs at night, after meals. or a stray cat...

greenfire

Tue, Sep 25 2007, 11:04 pm

an outdoor extension cord ... and a flood light ...

mummiedearest

Tue, Sep 25 2007, 11:11 pm

storm lanterns protect the candles from a storm, I should hope kids are protected against as well Smile

curlyhead

Wed, Sep 26 2007, 2:30 am

I have the same problem. check out this thread
http://www.imamother.com/forum.....31179
in the end I bought a few those led round push lights (similar to nightlight, closet lights) Between that and candle light hopefully will be able to see something. Just hope it last till Friday night as we have a few guest then. Says it should last up to 100 hours with

Raisin

Wed, Sep 26 2007, 9:43 am

We have an extension cord plugged into our attic (because you have to leave the window open) to plug a light into.

Ruchel

Wed, Sep 26 2007, 9:54 am

electricity? in a Sukkah? shock

This is a first for me! it sounds so cool!

BennysMommy

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 4:14 am

Ruchel are you being serious? How do u see at night without light?

catonmylap

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 5:40 am

We have no electricity either(our apartment is on the 8th floor and the sukkah is down below, the closest neighbor with electricity is 4 flights up). We've gotten by with the street lights...there is one close enough to the sukkah.

GAMZu

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 9:39 am

How do you have electricity in the sukka without taking it from your house?

mummiedearest

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 10:01 am

REALLY BIG BATTERIES LOL

greenfire

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 10:05 am

hey I just used candles ... was quite lovely ... sometimes we put one up ... and sometimes not ... but it was pouring erev yom tov ... no need for electric shock therapy

Ruchel

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 10:33 am

BennysMommy wrote:

Ruchel are you being serious? How do u see at night without light?

I suppose people have candles?
I don't know, I avoid going there when it's really dark!

But maybe that's why I know almost no one who sleeps in the sukkah... They don't have electricity either in the community sukka!

GAMZu

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 9:17 pm

So how do you/they eat the night meals?

Ruchel

Tue, Oct 02 2007, 10:47 pm

They do 1 seuda or 2 (ideally) for yomtov so they have to do kiddush and motzi in the sukka (I suppose if it's totally dark they make sure to have a candle? honestly I've never seen at night, but our sukka is so close to the house that there is light I think, I never saw my dad or dh with a candle).

Chol hamoed they do just if they want a seuda. The rabbis say if they do a seuda it must be in the sukka, but they don't have to do a seuda, so most abstain unless the weather is pleasant.

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