Visit the most beautiful Bnei Menashe sukkot in India
Shamgar Touthang and Gideon Khongsai inspecting a sukkah in India
Every year, the Bnei Menashe community in India conducts an annual “Kosher Sukka Inspection Program” during the intermediary days of the holiday of Sukkot. A team of 10 inspectors visited 8 Bnei Menashe villages in the Churachandpur area – Mualkoi, New Bazar, Phailen, Sijang, Zohar, Monglenphai, Matiyang and B.Vengnuom – viewing tens of creative sukkot (the temporary outdoor “booths” built especially for the festival).
The purpose of the program is twofold: first, as a competition, the inspectors judge the most beautiful dwellings (and award prizes). Second, the inspectors help educate the Bnei Menashe community on how to build a sukka that is both lovely and kosher (for example, it should have a thatched rather than a tin roof).
We have pictures of some of the sukkot here, sent to us by our emissary to the Bnei Menashe in India Yochanan Phaltuel.
And here is a separate gallery of our 10 intrepid inspectors as they hit the rural back roads.
