Sukkot

Five days after Yom Kippur, the festival of Sukkot celebrates God’s care of the Jewish people in the wilderness after the Exodus and is also the Jewish harvest festival.

Sukkot, which means ‘tabernacles’, refers to the temporary huts in which the Jews lived in their 40 years in the desert.

During Sukkot a blessing is said over four species of plants mentioned in the Bible. The collective name for these species is a lulav, after the Palm frond which is the most conspicuous. Meals are taken outside in a flimsy hut called a succah