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A guide to the Festival of Booth's four species, including their rituals and blessings.

What to look for, how to care for them and — and what to do with them when Sukkot is over.

Instructions for the do-it-yourselfer.

Traditionally read during Sukkot, the Book of Ecclesiastes grapples with the meaning of life.

How to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

Sukkot celebrates the challenges of everyday life.

Jewish tradition recognizes Sukkot as a celebration and sharing of our material possessions.

Called hol hamoed, the intermediate days are observed differently than the beginning and final ones.

For Jewish religious thinkers in our time, the question "why observe mitzvot?" has become a central and critical concern. Some answers echo earlier periods, some are new.