Celebrate Sukkot-Shemini Atzeret-Simchat Torah

Sukkot commemorates the years that the Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land, and celebrates the way in which God protected them under difficult desert conditions. Sukkot is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Feast of Booths. The word “sukkot” means “booths,” like the shelters the Jews lived in when they were travelling through the desert, or the shelters farmers use while gathering the harvest. During Sukkot, Jewish families build a temporary little hut or shelter in their yard, called a sukkah (say “sook-kaw”).