Sukkot

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Sukkot

• by
• Kira Loshin

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What Makes a Sukkah Kosher?

• A sukkah must be built under the sky
• A sukkah must measure at least seven tefachim
  long by seven tefachim wide. The schach must not
  be higher than 20 amot from the floor of the
  succah.

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S'chach

• The torah says that schach must be
• Vegetation
• Detachable from the ground
• Incapable of being tamei

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Sukkah Walls

• A sukkah may be kosher even if it has less than 3
  walls
• A sukkah should have

3 Incomplete Walls
3 Complete Walls
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Sukkot

• Why do we celebrate sukkot for eight days and
  people in Israel seven days?
  
• - Because in the olden days there were three
  judges and when there was a full moon they would
  tell a judge and light a bonfire. When the
  neighbor city saw the bonfire they lit a bonfire
  too . A couple weeks later when all of Israel
  knew about the full moon, some people got on a
  boat to tell the rest of the Jewish world. But,
  by the time it got here they didnt know what day
  the full moon was on. So, since they didnt know
  the right day for Sukkot they celebrated the two
  possible days instead of one day.

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Ushpizin

• We invite seven guests (the Ushpizin) to our
• sukkah
• They are
• - Avraham - Moshe
• - Yitzchak -
• - Yaacov - King David
• -

Aharon
Yosef