This evening, the holiday of Sukkot, the Festival of Booths, begins. It is also called the “time of our joy.”
It was established in memory of that period in our history when the Jewish people, after leaving Egyptian slavery, lived in booths, enveloped by the “clouds of glory.” It falls in the autumn period – the time of the harvest – which is why Sukkot is sometimes called the “Festival of the Harvest.”
Sukkot is one of the three major pilgrimage festivals for which people would ascend to the Jerusalem Temple. Special celebrations on one of the intermediate days of the festival – the Water-Drawing Celebration – remind us of the special significance of the time of Sukkot.
The main commandments of the holiday are “dwelling in the sukkah” and “Arba Minim,” the commandment of the Four Species.
Our website is suspending its work during the first two days of the holiday, which have the status of “Yom Tov.”
We wholeheartedly congratulate you on the holiday of Sukkot
