20-second recap:CITIBIN can help you keep your home and surrounding space cleaner and tidier (and rat-proof) during the holidays. We’re excited to launch our new series starting with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
In addition to being a woman-owned business, CITIBIN is very proudly a family-run business.
CITIBIN Founder and CEO Liz Picarazzi is married to CITIBIN Chief Operating Officer Frank Picarazzi. Their teen daughter Lydia frequently creates video content for CITIBIN's social media channels. CITIBIN and the Picarazzi family share colorful cultural backgrounds. They’re also both based in Brooklyn.
Frank is a first-generation American with Italian roots, while Liz is a Midwesterner of Irish-German ancestry. The two find ways to combine their heritages and cultures, while also soaking up all the interesting faiths, cuisines, and cultures around them. Living in an ethnically diverse borough means that Liz and Frank are constantly seeing the way so many different cultures and communities celebrate their holidays and commemorate life events.
As a tip of the hat to all that shared culture and to honor our city and country’s vibrant and varied reasons for celebration, CITIBIN is proud to kick off our Home for the Holidays content series.
We hope you’ll join us in the coming months as we explore the different holidays and traditions taking place throughout the year. Be sure to keep checking back in for new content, updates, tips and info.
While Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement are two of the most well-known days on the Jewish calendar, there are loads more lesser-known holidays as well.
Sukkot, which translates to booths or huts (and is also known as the Feast of the Tabernacles), began as a joyous weeklong autumn harvest holiday. The basic idea behind Sukkot(or Sukkos depending on your preferred pronunciation) is a celebration of safety and protection (We won’t delve into the deeper religious beliefs or traditions). As part of the observance, some Jews build a small and beautifully decorated hut and eat all meals there for the week of the holiday. Some people will even sleep there. It’s a lot like glamping, only it’s in your back or front yard.
There are also other Sukkot customs including a ritual blessing made using four special species of plant life known as the four kinds orarba minim. That includes an etrog (a wonderful smelling citron) a lulav (a palm frond) hadassim (myrtle) and aravot (willow). But let’s go back to the part where people are eating lavish meals in huts in their yards.
If you’re intrigued with the idea of Sukkot, actress Mayim Bialik made a great video with information about the holiday. And the huts.
If you live in or near a big city, you’ll probably see loads of sukkot or huts around your neighborhood this time of year.
If you’re the one hosting family and friends for celebratory meals, you know how difficult it can be to make sure the sukkah stays perfectly clean and free of leftovers between meals.
We have some thoughts on keeping your sukkah and yard pest-free over the holiday season.
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