- - Rosh Hashanah Guide 2011
- Succot downloadable handout 1
- Succot downloadable handout 3
- Succot downloadable handout 2
- Pesach Resources
- Rosh Hashanah
- Succot 2011
- Yom Kippur
- Peach (Passover)
- Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
- Lag Ba'Omer
- Shavuot
- Chanukah (Festival of Lights)
- Yom Yerushalayim
- Purim
- Tisha Ba'Av
- Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
- Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day)
- Yom Ha'Zikaron
Succot 2011
Three handy handouts packed with information about the festival of Succot.
To access the handouts click on the links at the bottom of the page.
Chag sameach from UJS!
The festival of Succot ('Tabernacles') takes place this year from the evening of Wednesday, October 12, and lasts until Friday, October 21.
It lasts 8 days (7 in Israel), plus a ninth day which is another festival known as Simchat Torah ('Rejoicing of the Torah', which marks the completion of the yearly cycle of reading the whole Torah and starting once again from the beginning).
Background on Succot
• Succot has a dual significance: historical and agricultural.
• Historically, Succot commemorates
the forty-year period during which
the children of Israel were
wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters.
• Agriculturally, Succot is a harvest festival and is sometimes referred to as Chag Ha-Asif , the Festival of Ingathering.
• It is also one of the 'shalosh regalim' -- the '3 foot festivals' when Jews from all over the land would go on a mass pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. (The other two are Pesach and Shavuot).
