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Sukkot is a seven-day festival. Inside the Land of Israel, the first day is celebrated as a full festival with special prayer services and holiday meals. Outside the Land of Israel, the first two days are celebrated as full festivals.
Sukkah. A sukkah or succah ( / ˈsʊkə /; Hebrew: סוכה [suˈka]; plural, סוכות [suˈkot] sukkot or sukkos or sukkoth, often translated as "booth") is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. It is topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal, harvest or Judaic themes.
An Egyptian Sukkot is the second of the stations of the Exodus.According to the Hebrew bible, God had sent Moses to rescue the Israelites from captivity by an unnamed Pharaoh - who later allowed the Israelites to leave Egypt, and they journeyed from their starting point at Pi-Rameses to Succoth (Exodus 12:37).
The final days of Sukkot are considered a separate holiday called Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. The second to last day of Sukkot is the Shemini Atzeret, during which you still dine in the ...
The four species ( Hebrew: ארבעת המינים arba'at ha-minim, also called arba'a minim) are four plants—the etrog, lulav, hadass, and aravah — mentioned in the Torah ( Leviticus 23:40) as being relevant to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. [1] Observant Jews tie together three types of branches and one type of fruit and wave them in a ...
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šāloš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles', 'tents' or 'booths')—when all Israelites who were able were expected to make ...
Hoshana Rabbah ( Hebrew: הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּה, lit. 'Great Hoshana /Supplication', Imperial Aramaic: הוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּא) is the seventh day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, [1] the 21st day of the month of Tishrei. This day is marked by a special synagogue service, the Hoshana Rabbah, in which seven circuits are ...
Succoth-benoth. Succoth-benoth or Succoth Benoth ( Hebrew: סֻכּוֹת בְּנוֹת, Booths of Daughters) was a Babylonian deity, one of the deities brought to the former kingdom of Samaria by the men of Babylon. In the ninth year of Hoshea, "the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah ...