The Jewish Holiday of Sukkot
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The date for Sukkot varies each year. This is because Jewish Holidays are celebrated based on the Lunar Calendar, not the Gregorian Calendar. Sukkot begins at sundown on the first day and completes at nightfall after 8 days.
The Pilgrims were familiar with the tradition of Sukkot, and modeled their celebratory feast after it in 1621 during the first harvest season in the New World. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in October and lasted for three days. This celebration eventually morphed into our modern-day Thanksgiving…
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Sukkot is the Jewish harvest festival. It begins five days after Yom Kippur and lasts for nine days, and is called the Feast of Booths because of the special custom of building a small hut, the sukkah, outdoors. The Hebrew calendar date is the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. This date always coincides with the evening of the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, otherwise known as the Harvest Moon.
Many Jewish families build a sukkah, a hut reminiscent of the temporary booths in which the Hebrews lived as they wandered forty years through the desert after the Exodus from Egypt. Jewish people who have gardens build their sukkah at home. People who live in the city may share one built at a synagogue. The booths are decorated with autumn leaves, pumpkins, and wheat stalks. Depending on the weather, people eat, live, and may even sleep in them, just as the Israelites did.
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Learn more in this post: WHAT IS SUKKOT?
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