Sukkot is celebrated for 8 days.
From Sun down until sun down.
As soon as we break the Yom-Kippur fast after the Shofar blast has been heard, the adults go outdoors and start building the Sukkah סכה by putting four wooden pillars in the ground.
We all take pride as we share in the building and decorating the Sukkah סכה over the next few days.
The Orthodox Jews, eat, Pray conduct their regular daily rutin and later go on and sleep in the Sukkah for seven days,
to relive, & remember how it was for our forefathers living in the dessert for forty years.
Another reason for celebrating Sukkot
is Harvest time
- Remembering that Farmers had to stay out doors, sleep outdoors away from home during the Fall Harvest season
in order to be ready to harvest the Fruits:
Grapes and Oranged and other foods that needed harvesting at that time.
Otherwise, the fruits might spoil. So the farmers built Sukkot
(the plural of Sukkah) to stay, sleep, and live in until the harvest was over.
>P A way of thanking him for the beautiful produce they just harvested. The High Priests would give the food to the needy.
Today, we honor the tradition by collecting canned goods and other items and help the community.
PATISH MASMER
(Translitaration of A SUKKOT SONG.)
Patish masmer nikach maher.
Sukkah lee'vnot
Baneem Banot
Ta'ch tach, Ta'ch tach
Tach tach Tach tach
LA-LA LA-LA
LA'LA'LA
***HE'NEH MA TOV***
(IT'S GOOD AND JOYFULL TO SIT TOGETHER)
HENEH MA TOV U'MA NA'EEM
SHEVET ACHEEM GAM YACHAD
REPEAT 2X
HEE'NEH MA'AH TOV
SHEH'VET ACHEEM GAM YACHAD
HEE'NEH MA'AH TOV
SHEH'VET ACHEEM GAM YACHAD
SUKKOT - סוכות
were wandering in the desert,and sleeping in small booths they could build and take apart quickly. The temporary shelters are called: סוכות Sukkot Booth.
Sukkot סוכות commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the dessert, by living in temporary shelters, huts called in singular " - סכה Sukka"
plural " - סוכות sukkot"
A big Mitzva מיצווה a good thing to do on Sukkot was Sukkot to follow the Torah's תורה words by taking the following Fruits of our Harvest: - פרות such as:
- ONE אתרוג - ETROG (Citrus of the Mediterenian)
- ONE - לולב - LULAV (palm brunch)
- THREE - הדסים - Hadasim (Myrtle brunches)
- TWO - ערבות - ARAVOT (willow brunches)
Hold them together and shake the fruits towards all the corners of the world כל כנפי הארץ
Right - ימינה
,
Back - אחורה
Left - שמאלה
Front -קדימה
and all around - סביבף סביב
.
We do this for each day of the holiday except Shabbatשבת
.
?
We celebrate Sukkot 15 days after the first day of the
holiday of Rosh- Hashanah = ראש-השנה
Sukkot is celebrated for 8 days.
Starting at Sun down until sun down.
As soon as we break the Yom-Kippur fast after the Shofar blast has been heard, the adults go outdoors and start building the Sukkah סכה by putting four wooden pillars in the ground.
We all take pride as we share in the building and decorating the Sukkah סכה over the next few days.
The Orthodox Jews, eat, Pray conduct their regular daily rutin and later go on and sleep in the Sukkah for seven days,
to relive, & remember how it was for our forefathers living in the dessert for forty years.
Another reason for celebrating Sukkot
is Harvest time
- Remembering that Farmers had to stay out doors, sleep outdoors away from home during the Fall Harvest season
in order to be ready to harvest the Fruits:
Grapes and Oranged and other foods that needed harvesting at that time.
Otherwise, the fruits might spoil. So the farmers built Sukkot
(the plural of Sukkah) to stay, sleep, and live in until the harvest was over.
>P A way of thanking him for the beautiful produce they just harvested. The High Priests would give the food to the needy.
Today, we honor the tradition by collecting canned goods and other items and help the community.
PATISH MASMER
(Translitaration of A SUKKOT SONG.)
Patish masmer nikach maher.
Sukkah lee'vnot
Baneem Banot
Ta'ch tach, Ta'ch tach
Tach tach Tach tach
LA-LA LA-LA
LA'LA'LA
***HE'NEH MA TOV***
(IT'S GOOD AND JOYFULL TO SIT TOGETHER)
HENEH MA TOV U'MA NA'EEM
SHEVET ACHEEM GAM YACHAD
REPEAT 2X
HEE'NEH MA'AH TOV
SHEH'VET ACHEEM GAM YACHAD
HEE'NEH MA'AH TOV
SHEH'VET ACHEEM GAM YACHAD
