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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. No work is permitted on the first and second days of the holiday.