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Sukkot

By the Numbers
9 Reasons You'll Love Sitting in a Sukkah

For just over one week a year, the Jewish world moves out to the shady confines of the sukkah. Here are nine reasons you'll want to pull up a chair.
10 Yom Tov (Holiday) Myths and Misconceptions

Is it the same as Shabbat?
12 of the World’s Most Interesting Sukkahs

A sukkah can be built anywhere, in any way that suits the builder.
Your Questions
Why Is Sukkot Happier Than Any Other Jewish Holiday?

Passover is the "Season of Our Liberation," Shavuot is the "Season of the Giving of Our Torah" and Sukkot is described simply as the "Season of Our Rejoicing!"
Halachah for Life
Can I Build a Sukkah Under a Tree or Awning?

And Other Common Sukkah Q&A
Quiz
Take the Sukkot True or False Quiz

Think you know Sukkot? Take our quiz to find out!
Freeman Files
The Sukkah Is Now

The sukkah, when done by the book, is incongruence itself: Live in a temporary structure as though it were permanent. What other structure does that remind you of?
Podcasts
I Never Dreamed I'd Marry a Religious Jew

She was born Jewish, but her mother had unwittingly gotten her involved in church. Could she reclaim Judaism as her own?
Video
One Sukkah, One Lulav, One People

The two central mitzvos of Sukkos—the sukkah and the Four Kinds—have at their core the theme of Jewish unity.
Lifestyle
21 Must-Make Sukkot Recipes

And G‑d said: “. . . Abraham shall be a great people . . . Because I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they shall keep the way of G‑d, to do charity and justice.”
— Genesis 18:17–19
Print Magazine

It all began with an unbounded light
that filled all and left no room for a world to be.

Then that light was withheld
so that the world might be created in the resulting void.

Then the world was created,
with the purpose of returning to that original state of light
—yet to remain a world.

That is something greater ...

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