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More or less the same as on Shabbat. There are no foods particular to Sukkot, with the sole exception that some have the custom of dipping the first bite of bread in honey.
Shabbat/festival menu:
1) These are necessary at Shabbat and festival meals: bread and wine. Slightly sweet, braided challah-bread is customary; as is sweet red wine.
2) These are long-established customs: fish (typically gefilte fish, and especially at the evening meal); and cholent at the morning meal. Cholent is a slow-cooked stew of barley, meat and beans, with other ingredients to taste; but each family adjusts the basic makeup of the cholent as they wish.
3) These are common: soup at the evening meal; especially chicken soup (that's the famous "Jewish chicken soup" with its reputed healing-properties). Egg salad with chopped onions, and/or chopped liver.
4) Other dishes, including dessert, will vary according to family or community habits and taste.
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How do you say happy sukkot in Hebrew?
Sukkot means either booths or tabernacles. It's also the name of a holiday in which Jews build a Sukkah (sukkot is plural) ... and depending on your tradition --eat, sit, and/or sleep inside it.
Do Jews fast at sukkot?
Jews do not fast on Sukkot. In fact, fasting is prohibited since Sukkot is a joyful holiday. Although joy is an aspect in every Jewish holiday, Sukkot was specifically singled out by the Bible as a joyous holiday: Deuteronomy (16: 14-15) says, "you will be altogether joyful."
Does Sukkot and the feast of booths remind Jews of how their ancestors lived in the desert?
Yes, the Sukkot are supposed to remind you of the huts in the desert.
Is Sukkot celebrated in your house or at church?
Neither. Jews do not have churches. Sukkot is an outdoor holiday and is celebrated in small huts constructed to specific Rabbinic specifications. These huts (or sukkot whence comes the name) can be in the synagogue's back lot or in a homeowner's backyard.
What is a sukka?
A sukkah is a temporary dwelling that Jews use during the holiday of Sukkot. It must have at least 2 1/2 walls, be at least three feet tall, and be positioned so that all or part of its roof is open to the sky. Many people decorate their sukkahs with streamers and small ornaments. Traditionally, Jews eat meals and sleep in sukkahs during the holiday of Sukkot.
What is a dwelling place for religious Jews?
A dwelling place for religious Jews is commonly referred to as a "sukkah." This is a temporary, outdoor structure constructed during the Jewish festival of Sukkot. It serves as a place for Jews to eat, sleep, and spend time during the holiday, symbolizing the temporary dwellings used by the Israelites during their journey in the desert.
Do Jews eat snails?
Jews who eat kosher will not eat snails since snails are not kosher. However, not all Jews eat according to the laws of kashrut, so some Jews do eat snails.
Why do Jews give out fruit baskets during sukkot?
Sukkot is a time of thanksgiving for the bounty of nature as the harvest season draws to a close. It is a festive time in which Jews celebrate by building a sukkah, a simple outdoor structure and garnishing it with garlands of fruits and hung vegetables. Foods made with fruits and nuts, particularly if they are native or indigenous to where you live - symbolize the harvest abundance. How lovely.
Why did the Jews live in booths?
1) The Israelites used booths as a form of tent, for the hot months in the wilderness after the Exodus (Leviticus 23:43). 2) Every year, Jews commemorate this by dwelling in arbor-booths (sukkot), as God has commanded them (Leviticus 23:42-43).
What do people in sukkot eat?
There are no special sukkot foods, but because the succah is a temporary outdoor living space, some people do enjoy typical outdoor patio cooking. Others just carry food from the kitchen.
What are some traditions accociated with sukkot?
On Sukkot, Jews eat all their meals in outdoor arbor-canopied booths (Sukkah) in order to commemorate the Israelites' wanderings in the desert. Some will also sleep in the Sukkah. During the morning prayers on these days, we take the 4 minim consisting of a Lulav (young palm branch), an Etrog (Citrus Medica; citron), three Haddassim (Myrtle branches) and two Aravot (willow branches).
Does the Jews eat cray fish?
Observant Jews do not eat crayfish.
