How to Celebrate Sukkot
- 1). Begin building a sukah the day after Yom Kippur, ideally outside in your backyard, or on a terrace or balcony. (The festival itself starts 4 days after the Day of Atonement.)
- 2). Make a simple four-sided framework of wooden strips and decorate it with paper garlands, colorful paper cutouts, swaths of cloth and hanging fruits and vegetables.
- 3). Lay tree branches or straw across the top to form the roof. Arrange them loosely so the moon and stars can shine through.
- 4). Make or buy a lulav and an etrog. A lulav is a long palm branch wrapped with branches of willow and myrtle; an etrog is a citron, a lemon-like citrus fruit.
- 5). Eat dinner in your sukah every night of the 8-day festival; you can also sleep in it, if you like.
- 6). Wave the lulav and etrog before dinner every night as you say prayers of thanksgiving.
- 7). Tell stories and sing songs.
- 8). Rejoice and be happy.
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