Sukkot Is a Festival of Prayer for Rain

Next week we have Sukkot, a festival of prayer for rain. In the Holy Land where the Bible is set, rain was and still is the scarcest resource. The natural world is something science and religion both speak about in their very different ways. We're so small in a universe so vast and our very existence depends on an extraordinarily delicate balance between too much and too little. Perhaps it's not crazy once a year to lift our eyes toward heaven the way we do when we're praying for rain.