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Sukkot

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Sukkot: (lit. “booths”); festival of seven days (eight in the Diaspora) beginning on 15 Tishrei, taking its name from the temporary dwelling (sukkah) in which one lives during this period; this festival is marked for its special joy (“zeman simchateinu”—“time of our rejoicing”) and by the mitzvah of the four species

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Sukkot

Virtually everything you need to know about the holiday of Sukkot: How-To Guides, Sukkah and "Four Kinds" Wizards, Essays and Insights, Recipes, Stories, Multimedia, and much more!

Jewish Practice » Jewish Holidays » Sukkot & Simchat Torah

The Big Sukkah

By Yanki Tauber

For a thing to be the thing it is, it cannot be too small, and it cannot be too big. There is one exception, however: the sukkah

Jewish Practice » Jewish Holidays » Sukkot & Simchat Torah » Sukkot » Study » Insights

What the Rebbe Said: Sukkos Book

Adapted from the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe by Malka Touger

Naomi’s family was invited to Bubby’s and Zeide’s sukkah on the second night of Sukkos. Bubby and Zeide live in an apartment building, and many families built their sukkah in the courtyard. After the Yom Tov meal, Naomi played with the other children in ...

Kids » Story Time » Bookshelf » What The Rebbe Said » What the Rebbe Said: Devarim

The Temporary Dwelling

By Yanki Tauber

Are we transient beings for whom movement is life and "at rest" an inscription for the gravestone? Are we rooted souls, for whom the "journeys" of life are just so many guises of the singular quest for home?

Learning & Values » Kabbalah & Jewish Mysticism » Chassidic Thought » Insights & Readings » By Yanki Tauber

Keeping In Touch: Sukkos Book

Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

The mitzvah of the lulav and esrog performed on Sukkos symbolizes the intrinsic unity of the Jewish people. This mitzvah requires us to hold together either fruit or branches from four different species of trees - the date palm (lulav), the myrtle ...

Learning & Values » Texts & Writings » Contemporary Works » Keeping In Touch » Keeping In Touch: Festivals

Living with Moshiach: Sukkot Book

By J. Immanuel Schochet

“You shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a goodly tree (ethrog), branches of palm trees (lulav), boughs of thick trees (hadassim), and willows of the brook (aravot)...” -Emor 23:40 “R. Berechiah said in the name of R. Levi: For the ...

Learning & Values » Texts & Writings » Contemporary Works » Living With Moshiach » Living with Moshiach: Holidays

Sukkos Book

From the talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson

Learning & Values » Texts & Writings » Chassidic Texts » Timeless Patterns in Time

Sukkot Event

Jewish Practice » Jewish Calendar » Tishrei

Torah Gems: Succot Audio

By Elimelech Silberberg

Learning & Values » Audio Classes » Holidays » Sukkot & Simchat Torah

One Sukkah, One Lulav, One People 13 Tishrei, 5741 • September 23, 1980 Video