Sukkot (Jewish)

Every fall, Jews around the world celebrate the festival of the Sukkot by constructing a temporary dwelling called a sukkah. Beginning five days after Yom Kippur, Sukkot is named after the booths or huts (sukkot in Hebrew) in which Jews are supposed to dwell in during this week-long celebration. The holiday commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters. Sukkot is also a harvest festival, one of the three Pilgrim Festivals of the Hebrew Bible. The first day of Sukkot is Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. No work is permitted on the first and second days of the holiday.