List of Jewish Festivals

Jewish Festival of Succot

Succot is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or the Day of Booths and is typically celebrated sometime between late September to the end of October. The festival lasts for seven days and it celebrates the harvest as well as forty years that the Jewish people escaped slavery in Egypt. During Succot the sukkah is a temporary dwelling, which is to represent the temporary housing the Jews lived in when in exile.

During the seven days of Succot many Jews spend most of their time in their sukkah, including eating and sleeping in the temporary dwelling. For reformed Jews, they typically build symbolic huts from sticks such as those of wooden popsicle sticks. The sukkah is to have two walls, but can have four and must have a cover or roof that once was part of the earth, such as palm branches or other parts of trees. Moreover, this covering or temporary roof is not to block all the rain (in the event it rained). The sukkah may be decorated with children's decorations or vegetables that are strung.

Finally, many Jews during Succot travel as a symbol of Jewish people's wanderings in exile. These trips often consists of visiting family members and eating specially prepared meals.