Sukkot! Feast of Shelters!

09/18/2013 6:15 pm
09/25/2013 6:15 pm

The sukkah is intended as a reminiscence of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the holiday, meals are eaten inside the sukkah and some people sleep there as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot