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Sukkot

By the Numbers
9 Reasons You'll Love Sitting in a Sukkah

For just over one week a year, the Jewish world moves out to the shady confines of the sukkah. Here are nine reasons you'll want to pull up a chair.
10 Yom Tov (Holiday) Myths and Misconceptions

Is it the same as Shabbat?
12 of the World’s Most Interesting Sukkahs

A sukkah can be built anywhere, in any way that suits the builder.
Your Questions
Why Is Sukkot Happier Than Any Other Jewish Holiday?

Passover is the "Season of Our Liberation," Shavuot is the "Season of the Giving of Our Torah" and Sukkot is described simply as the "Season of Our Rejoicing!"
Halachah for Life
Can I Build a Sukkah Under a Tree or Awning?

And Other Common Sukkah Q&A
Quiz
Take the Sukkot True or False Quiz

Think you know Sukkot? Take our quiz to find out!
Freeman Files
The Sukkah Is Now

The sukkah, when done by the book, is incongruence itself: Live in a temporary structure as though it were permanent. What other structure does that remind you of?
Podcasts
I Never Dreamed I'd Marry a Religious Jew

She was born Jewish, but her mother had unwittingly gotten her involved in church. Could she reclaim Judaism as her own?
Video
One Sukkah, One Lulav, One People

The two central mitzvos of Sukkos—the sukkah and the Four Kinds—have at their core the theme of Jewish unity.
Lifestyle
21 Must-Make Sukkot Recipes

When a person builds a house, he makes the windows narrow on the outside and wider on the inside, so that they should draw in light from the outside. But when King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem he made the windows narrow within and wide without, so that its light should emanate to the outside and illuminate the world
— Midrash Tanchuma, Behaalotecha 2
Print Magazine

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—that force is a single whole, and it is G‑d.

It is not all of G‑d. It is an expression of G‑d. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothin...

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