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Rabbi Herschel Gluck eating a takeaway meal in his Sukkah during the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The holiday commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. In honor of the children of Israel in the wilderness, men dwell in temporary shelters. This shelter is called a Sukkah it has at least three sides and a partially open roof covered with greenery.

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Rabbi Herschel Gluck eating a takeaway meal in his Sukkah during the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The holiday commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. In honor of the children of Israel in the wilderness, men dwell in temporary shelters. This shelter is called a Sukkah it has at least three sides and a partially open roof covered with greenery.