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What is the Sukkoth festival?

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12y ago
Updated: 9/10/2020

Succot (Sephardic Hebrew) or Succos (Ashkenazic Hebrew) is one of the three pilgrimage festivals of the Jewish calendar, when all Jews were to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, back before the Romans destroyed the Temple in the year 70. Succot begins in the fall, a few days after Yom Kippur, and lasts for 7 days, with an 8th day of assembly tacked on. For the 7 days of Succot, tradition asks that Jews live in a succah, a walled booth with a roof made of vegetation that is solid enough to shade the interior but flimsy enough that you can see the stars through it. This is why Succot is sometimes described as the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Tabernacles.

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