Sukkot
Jewish Holiday, Harvest Festival, Festival of Booths
Sukkot (also known as Feast of Tabernacles) is a Jewish festival. In this event, people celebrate the gathering of the crops, and remember the time in the past when small shelters were made by the Jews when they were in the wilderness and had no homes. It happens 5 days after the Jewish festival Yom Kippur and lasts for 1 week.
Sukkot | |
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Official name | Hebrew: סוכות or סֻכּוֹת "Booths, Tabernacles" |
Observed by | Jews |
Type | Judaism |
Significance | One of the three pilgrim festivals |
Begins | 15th day of Tishrei |
Ends | 21st day of Tishrei (22nd outside of Israel) |
Observances | Eating in sukkah, taking the Four Species. |
Related to | Shemini Atzeret |
Dates
change- 2017: October 4-11 (October 12, outside Israel)
- 2018: September 23-30 (October 1, outside Israel)
- 2019: October 13-20 (October 21, outside Israel)
- 2020: October 2-9 (October 3, outside Israel)
- 2021: September 20-27 (September 21, outside Israel)
- 2022: October 9-16
- 2023:September 29-October 6
Other websites
changeWikimedia Commons has media related to Sukkot.
- Guide for Sukkot
- JewFaq discussion on Sukkot
- Sukkos and Simchas Torah - Torah.org Archived 2006-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
- an overview of the laws of Sukkot Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine from Torah.org, based on the Mishneh Torah
- Sukkot in Jerusalem
- Free succah construction plans and instructions
- sukkahsoftheworld.org devoted to pictures of Sukkahs from Sharon, Mass USA and throughout the world Archived 2020-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Sukkot Concepts - Basic through Advanced - OU.org