Sukkot is a Torah commanded holiday celebrated for 7 days. It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals. (Hebrew shalosh regalim) on which those israelites who could were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. In additional to its harvest roots, the holiday also holds spiritual importance with regard to focus on nationhood, spirituality, and hospitality this principle underlying the construction of a temporary, almost nomadic, structure of a sukkah.
The names used in the Torah are Chag HaAsif, trabslated to Festival of Ingatheringor Harvest Festival, and Chag HaSukkot, translatedto Festival of Booths.


The Hebrew word sukkõt is the plural of Sukkah, booth or tabernacle, which is a walled structure covered with plant material, such as overgrowth or palm leaves.

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