Sukkot

Sukkot is the seven-day festival of giving thanks for the Fall harvest as well as marking the 40 years that the Jewish people wandered in the desert after receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. On Sukkot, it is customary to build a small hut called a Sukkah in which people may eat and even sleep. Sukkot begins five days after Yom Kippur. The lulav (bundle of date palm fronds, willow fronds, and myrtle fronds) and the etrog (a yellow citrus fruit) are symbols of the harvest and we say a prayer over them while shaking them in six directions to give thanks to God. We shake the lulav and etrog like this to remind us that God is found everywhere and in every direction.

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