: a booth or shelter with a roof of branches and leaves that is used especially for meals during the Sukkoth
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But Zvi Sukkot, a 33-year-old Israeli settler from Yitzhar, had chosen to erect a sukkah, the festive temporary hut traditionally built during the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot.
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Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
The holiday of Sukkot begins five days after Yom Kippur and is named after the huts, or sukkah, that represent the shelters that freed Jews used in their 40 years in the wilderness.
—Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
Many of the sukkah decorations in our guide, from garlands to decorative fruit, are versatile staples that can be used (and re-used) in different ways within your sukkah.
—Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 24 Aug. 2023
This question has larger ramifications, bearing on whether the exemption of women from particular affirmative commandments fixed by time – such as dwelling in a sukkah and donning a tallit – means that women are prohibited by Jewish law from performing these commandments.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Mar. 2022
The Hebrew word for 'hut' is 'sukkah' and more than one sukkah is Sukkot, which is how the holiday gets its name.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2021
Hillel at Miami University posted on social media this week that its sukkah was damaged on Oct. 15, the penultimate day of the weeklong Jewish celebration Sukkot.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2022
Brandspiegel's son hosted a socially distanced gathering at his home in East Brunswick under a sukkah, a temporary shelter used to observe the seven days and nights of the Jewish fall holiday Sukkot.
—Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
Kevin Ladriere, 20; Eli Lauger, 20; and Santiago Arenas, 19 turned themselves in to Oxford police after Hillel at Miami's sukkah was upended on Oct. 15.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2022
Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
The holiday of Sukkot begins five days after Yom Kippur and is named after the huts, or sukkah, that represent the shelters that freed Jews used in their 40 years in the wilderness.
—Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
Many of the sukkah decorations in our guide, from garlands to decorative fruit, are versatile staples that can be used (and re-used) in different ways within your sukkah.
—Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 24 Aug. 2023
This question has larger ramifications, bearing on whether the exemption of women from particular affirmative commandments fixed by time – such as dwelling in a sukkah and donning a tallit – means that women are prohibited by Jewish law from performing these commandments.
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Mar. 2022
The Hebrew word for 'hut' is 'sukkah' and more than one sukkah is Sukkot, which is how the holiday gets its name.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2021
Hillel at Miami University posted on social media this week that its sukkah was damaged on Oct. 15, the penultimate day of the weeklong Jewish celebration Sukkot.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2022
Brandspiegel's son hosted a socially distanced gathering at his home in East Brunswick under a sukkah, a temporary shelter used to observe the seven days and nights of the Jewish fall holiday Sukkot.
—Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
Kevin Ladriere, 20; Eli Lauger, 20; and Santiago Arenas, 19 turned themselves in to Oxford police after Hillel at Miami's sukkah was upended on Oct. 15.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2022
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