Sukkot, or Feast of Tabernacles, is a Biblical holiday celebrated in late September to late October. The holiday lasts seven days. The Sukkah is a walled structure covered with plant material - built for the celebration - and is intended to be a reminiscence of the type of dwelling in which the Israelites stayed during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the exodus from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the holiday, meals are eaten inside the Sukkah and many sleep there as well. On each day of the holiday, members of the household recite a blessing over the lulav and etrog (four species). The four species include the lulav (a ripe green, closed frond from a date palm tree), the hadass (boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree), the aravah (branches with leaves from the willow tree) and the etrog (the fruit of a citron tree.)
Orthodox Jews hold branches and fruit of etrog, a type of citrus fruit, while blessing a sukkah, an outdoor hut, as part of the Sukkot holiday at the Chabad center, Oct. 12, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man inspects the Hadas or Myrtle in an Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Bnei Brak, Oct.11, 2011
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy carries palm branches in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, Oct. 11, 2011. The branches are used to cover the roof of the ritual booths known as sukkah, used during the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukko
An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man inspects the Etrog (citron), one of four plant species to be used during the celebration of Sukkot, in an Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem, Oct. 9, 2011
Orthodox Jews prepare a Sukkah, an outdoor hut, by covering its roof with branches as part of the Sukkot holiday at the Chabad center, Oct. 12, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Sukkot lasts seven days and community members take celebratory meals inside the Sukkah
Ultra-Orthodox Jews hold the four plant species -- palm leave stalk, citrus, myrtle and willow branches -- as they perform the Cohanim prayer (priest's blessing) of Sukkot at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Oct. 16, 2011
Members of the Samaritan community take part in the traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Sukkot early Oct. 11, 2011
Courtesy : Reuters, AFP,Getty Images,Associated Press
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