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The word sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew sukkah, meaning booth; a sukkah can specifically refer to the booth or hut constructed for the celebration of sukkot.
The first two days are celebrated as full holidays. The following five days are known as Hol Hamo'ed— weekdays that retain some aspects of the festival. The seventh day (fifth of the intermediate days) is called Hoshanah Rabbah and has a special observance of its own. The last day, the eighth, is celebrated as a separate holiday with its own special prayers and customs (see below).
Sukkot commemorates the life of the Israelites in the desert during their journey to the promised land, the Land of Israel. During their wandering in the desert they lived in booths (sukkot). The Torah directs Jews to use four species of plants to celebrate the holiday: the lulav (palm branch), the etrog (lemon-like citron), myrtle, and willow. The etrog is handled separately; the other three species are bound together and are collectively referred to as the lulav.
In Israel Sukkot is eight days long, including Shemini Atzeret. Outside Israel (the Diaspora), Sukkot is nine days long. Thus the eighth day is Shemini Atzeret, and the extra (ninth) day is Simchat Torah. In Israel the festivities and customs associated with Simchat Torah are celebrated on Shemini Atzeret.
In prayer services at synagogues, the last portion of the Torah is read on this day. On the following ShabbatShabbat or Shabbos ( Ashkenazic pronunciation) ( shabb rest), is a day of rest that is observed once a week, on Saturday, by practitioners of Judaism, as well as by many secular Jews. Etymology The Hebrew word Shabbat comes from the Hebrew verb shabat whi Jews start the reading of the Torah again from the beginning— at the start of the book of GenesisThis article is about Genesis the first book of the Hebrew Bible. See Genesis (disambiguation) for other usages of the word. Genesis ( Greek: , having the meanings of "birth", "creation", "cause", "beginning", "source" and "origin"; translated from Hebrew. Services are unconventionally joyous, and humorous deviations from the standard service are allowed, and even expected.
In the Hebrew calendarpalm branches ( Lulav) and the citron ( Etrog) to be brought to the synagogue at the end of the sukkot closing the solemn convocations of the calendar in autumn. The Hebrew calendar is the annual calendar used in Judaism. Like the Chinese calendar, it is, Erev Sukkot, the first night of the holiday, is on Tishri 14, so the first day of Sukkot is on the 15th day of Tishri.
Sukkot is the third of the pilgrimage festivals on which all israelite males were required to make pilgrimages to the Temple in JerusalemThe Jerusalem Temple ( Hebrew: beit ha-mikdash was the center of Israelite and Jewish worship, primarily for the offering of sacrifices known as the korbanot''. It was located on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. According to the Bible, the First Temple was built. The celebration of this festival begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Tishri). Originally it lasted seven days; but in the course of time its duration was extended to nine days. In the Bible it is called:
In later Hebrew literature it called dhag ("the festival")
It was agricultural in origin; this is evident from the name the "Feast of Ingathering," from the ceremonies accompanying it, and from the season and occasion of its celebration: "At the end of the year when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field" (Ex. xxiii. 16); "after that you have gathered in from your thrashing-floor and from your wine-press" (Deut. xvi). It was a thanksgiving for the fruit harvest (comp. Judges ix. 27). Coming as it did at the completion of the entire harvest, it was regarded as a general thanksgiving for the bounty of nature in the year that had passed.
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