Reply To: Is a graduation ceremony avoda zara?

The Targum Yonasan says that on shemini atzeres we are happy we can go back to the house. I explained that sukkah is a learning process for the whole year with the ushpezin as teachers such that shemini atzeres is graduation day. There is no avoda zara involved to recognize one’s accomplishments for the rest of one’s life with a diploma. Yeshivas have also graduation ceremony of elementary school and high school.