"You shall dwell in booths for seven days"—Leviticus 23:42.
We are commanded to dwell in a sukkah (booth) for the seven days of the holiday of Sukkot. Women are exempt from this mitzvah.
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Daily Mitzvah (Rambam)
Day 57: Positive Commandment 168
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Not only the tribe of Levi, but any man of all the inhabitants of the earth, whose spirit has moved him and whose mind has given him to understand to set himself aside to stand before G-d to serve Him, to worship Him, to know G-d and walk justly as G-d has created him -- this man has become sanctified, a holy of holies, and G-d shall be his portion and his lot forever, and shall grant him his needs in this world, as He has granted the Kohanim and the Levites.
–Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Shemittah and Jubilee Cycles, 13:13
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