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Sukkot
At-A-Glance
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
AppleTree Editor
What We Celebrate: Sukkot.
Sukkot has many names in the
Tanach. The most familiar is "Feast
of Tabernacles," in Leviticus and
Deuteronomy. Others include "Feast
of the Ingathering" (Exodus) "The
Feast" ( I Kings) and "Feast of the
Lord" (Leviticus and Judges).
When We Celebrate:
Sukkot begins on the 15th of
Tishrei, which this year
corresponds to
Sept. 30 on the
secular calen-
dar, and lasts
for seven
days.
Why We
Celebrate:
Sukkot
recalls the
sukkot, or
booths,
where the
Israelites lived
following the
Exodus. Leviticus
23:39-43 tells
how God com-
manded the Jews to
live in the sukkot, as well
as to take "the fruit of
goodly trees, branches of palm
trees and boughs of thick trees and
willows of the brook" to use to
"rejoice before the Lord."
How To Celebrate:
The sukkah is our home for seven
days — and nights, for those who
actually want to sleep there.
On Sukkot, we use the lulav and
etrog, also known as the arbdah
minim, the four species. The lulav
consists of a date-palm frond to
which are tied branches from the
willow and myrtle trees. The
Israelites, wandering in the desert,
used these to make the first sukkot.
The etrog, which looks something
like a large lemon, but has a lovely,
sweet smell, is the "fruit of goodly
trees" mentioned in Leviticus.
Holding the lulav and etrog
together, families stand in the
sukkah and, according to Ashkenazi
custom, gently shake first to the
east, then the south, the west, the
north, and finally up and down.
(This also is done during the Hallel
prayer at synagogue or temple serv-
ices.)
In the days of the Beit HaMikdash,
the Holy Temple, Sukkot was a pil-
grimage holiday and Jewish families
from everywhere came to Jerusalem.
Long ago, Sukkot also included
Simchat Beit ha-Shoevah, the Water-
Drawing Festival, when holiday cele-
brations featured musical and
dance presentations,
often with torches.
These events,
which lasted
until dawn,
were said to be
amazing; tra-
dition says
that whoever
did not
experience
one had
never really
seen a festi-
val.
Today, once
the sukkah has
been built, the
major activity
that takes place
there is eating. All
meals, and even
snacks, should be eaten in
the sukkah, except when it's raining.
Hoshanah Rabbah And Shemini
Atzeret:
The seventh day of Sukkot is
Hoshanah Rabbah, both a festival
and a day of judgment. According to
tradition, on Rosh Hashanah God
made his decision regarding our
futures. He sealed it on Yom Kippur.
Yet we have until Hoshanah Rabbah
to mend our ways before God makes
His judgment final.
Synagogue services on Hoshanah
Rabbah include worshippers holding
an etrog and lulav and making seven
circuits around the sanctuary, during
which time special prayers, or
hashanas, are said.
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