It isn’t the frame of the sukkah – it IS the sukkah. An artsy, avant-garde sukkah, but a sukkah nonetheless.

According to halakha, a sukkah is a structure consisting of a roof made of organic material which has been disconnected from the ground (the S’chach). A sukkah must have 3 walls. It should be at least three feet tall, and be positioned so that all or part of its roof is open to the sky (only the part which is under the sky is kosher.)

Meets all the requirements to me.

Looks like the Blair Witch was in town.

Looks like it was assembled of old TV antennae.

Shalom/Tabernacle of Peace

a public art installation by Dalya Luttwak

commissioned by The Washington DC Jewish Community Center

on view until December 27, 2012

16th Street Steps of the Washington DCJCC
1529 16th Street NW (corner of Q street)

“Every year during the holiday of Sukkot, for one week,
Jewish families all over the world eat, pray and, weather permitting,
sleep in temporary huts (sukkot in Hebrew) to
re-live the experience of their ancestors of thousands of
years ago, who dwelled in huts while wandering in the desert
for forty years before reaching the Promised Land. We can
assume that the original sukkah (plural sukkot) was made of
fronds of the palm trees that are widespread in the Middle
East and have long been used for this purpose. A palm frond,
lulav, is traditionally present in each sukkah and is waved
along with willow and myrtle branches and a citron (etrog) in
six directions in a daily ritual during the holiday.
Therefore, I decided to concentrate my interpretation of the
sukkah on images of the palm tree. Using steel as my medium,
I created the walls mimicking roots of palm, while palm
fronds form the roof of my sukkah.”
– Dalya Luttwak