When is Sukkot?
Sukkot 2011
Sukkot 2011 starts on Thursday 13 October and lasts for 7 days until Wednesday 19 October.
All Jewish holidays begin at sundown on the evening before the date shown.
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Countdown to Sukkot
There are -114 days until Sukkot.
There are -2752 hours until Sukkot.
What is Sukkot
Sukkot falls on the fifteenth day of the Month of Tishri, five days after Yom Kippur.
Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Tabernacles, is a seven day commemoration and celebration of the way in which God protected the Israelites during the years they spent in the desert on their way to the promised land.
You shall dwell in sukkot seven days...in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I the Lord your God. Leviticus 23:42
The Hebrew word sukkōt is the plural of the word sukkah (booth or tabernacle) which means huts. These simple hut structures were used by the Israelites as shelter during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from Egyptian slavery.
Celebrations of Sukkat include building a hut outside in which to eat and sleep during the holiday. The hut should be reminiscent of the fragile temporary desert structures with a roof made of branches and leaves through which inhabitants can see the sky – God's heaven and the only source of security whilst in the desert.