Sukkot and the Beauty of the Unscripted Moment

In this episode of Assembling Community, Erica sits down with her husband, Rabbi Dimitry Ekshtut, to revisit the rainy Sukkot night when a storm pushed thirty guests into their one-bedroom Harlem apartment, and he proposed.

They talk about what changes when a carefully planned gathering falls apart, why the sukkah's permeable, unfinished design offers a model for building community, and how holding structure and improvisation together lets real connection emerge.