Sukkot Ends
- What
- Sukkot Ends
- When
- 9/27/2021
- Where
- Jewish
Sukkot is one of the three central pilgrimage festivals known as the “Festival of Tabernacles” and the “Feast of Booths.” The other pilgrimages are Passover and Shavout.
It is traditional to build a sukkah, a temporary hut to dwell in during the holiday. It is the custom to buy a lulav and etrog and shake them daily throughout the festival. According to rabbinic tradition, these tent-like structures represent the huts in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after escaping from slavery in Egypt. The festival of Sukkot is one of the three pilgrimage festivals of the Jewish year. It is traditional to decorate the sukkah and hang fruit and fragrant plants inside. During the holiday, Jews traditionally spend as much time in the sukkah as possible. Weather permitting, meals are eaten in the sukkah, and some people even choose to sleep in the sukkah. It is a positive commandment from the Torah [Leviticus 23:40] to gather together the Four Species during Sukkot:
On the first day you shall take the product of hadar trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before Adonai your God seven days.
“The first day” refers to the first day of Sukkot . “Fruit of goodly trees” refers to the etrog (citron). “Branches of palm trees” refers to the lulav . “Boughs of leafy trees” refers to the myrtle (hadasim). “Willows of the brook” refers to the aravot or hoshanot.