How Sleeping in a Hut Became a Major Jewish Holiday

A video for Sukkot.

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Why do we even celebrate Sukkot? Unlike Passover and Shavuot, it doesn’t seem to commemorate an important historical event for our national history!

Video by AlephBeta.org.

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