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A sukkah In Mea Shearim.
Altogether Joyful
Sukkot Holiday
DAVID HOLZEL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
ukkot is the third holiday — Chag Hasukkot and Chag
in the Hebrew month Ha'asif — the festival is known
Tishrei. It fell this year at as Zman Simchateinu, the sea-
sundown last Sunday.
son of our joy, and simply Chag,
Sukkot, "huts" in Hebrew, is the festival.
often translated as booths or
tabernacles. It is a seven-day fes- Harvest bounty
Symbols of the holiday include
tival. Among Conservative and
the
lulav and the etrog. The lulav
Orthodox Jews, the first two days
are celebrated as a full festival; consists of palm, willow and myr-
among Reform Jews and in Is- tle branches. The etrog is a citrus
rael, the first day is a full festival. fruit. In the Sukkot ceremony,
The remainder is known as chol they are waved north, south, east,
hamo'ed, the intermediate part west, up and down.
Leviticus 23:40 is the source of
of the holiday, on which work is
the ritual: "And you shall take ...
permitted.
Exodus 23:16 calls for Chag the fruit of goodly trees, branch-
Ha'asif, the feast of crop gather- es of palm trees, and boughs of
ing, as one of three pilgrimage fes- thick trees, and willows of the
brook ..."
tivals.
Leviticus 23:33-44 declares the Autumn ecstasy
15th day of the 7th month to be
In Second Temple times, 2,000
Chag Hasukkot, the feast of huts, years ago, Sukkot was celebrat-
when the Israelites gather the ed with dancing, torches, jug-
fruits of the land. During the sev- gling, flutes — even with the
en-day festival, the Israelites are burning of the priests' old un-
directed to dwell in huts, "that derclothes. The Jews of those
your generations may know that times also performed a water-
I made the children of Israel pouring ceremony known as Bet
dwell in huts when I brought Hasho'eva, of which it was said,
them out of Egypt."
"He that has never seen the joy
Deuteronomy 16:13-17 echoes of the Bet Hasho'eva has never
Leviticus, and adds that during in his life seen joy."
Sukkot, "you shall be altogether
The universal festival
joyful."
Sukkot is the one Jewish holi-
Why a hut?
day that reaches out to the world
Like the other pilgrimage fes- at large. Tradition says that 70
tivals, Pesach and Shavuot, bulls were sacrificed in the Tem-
Sukkot is composed of two inter- ple during the festival to celebrate
twined strands: agricultural and the 70 nations of the earth.
biblical. The ancient Israelites
Among the Torah readings on
spent the harvest season in huts the holiday is the vision of
to be close to their fields. Tradi- Zechariah.
tion also assigns Sukkot as a
He prophesied that God will
memorial to Israel's wanderings judge the nations that had at-
in the wilderness, when the peo- tacked Jerusalem. Then they will
ple lived in temporary dwellings. be converted to the worship of
The sukkah is the thread that God and stream to Jerualem an-
ties the two strands together.
nually to celebrate Sukkot.
Joyous season
Mystical guests
In addition to its other names
Traditional Jews eat in their
S