This Sukkot, Jews around the world will import etrogim from remote regions of the Atlas Mountains.

With the recitation of the prayer for rain on Sh’mini Atzeret, the High Holiday season closes in a reminder of human frailty and divine beneficence. 

In the army, sacrifice, discomfort, privation, and the fragility of life—all symbolized by the sukkah—are facts of everyday existence.

For two millennia, Jews have agreed on the identity of the four species of Sukkot plants; prior to  the rabbis, though, consensus is conspicuously absent.

“Jews are the world’s experts in insecurity, having lived with it for millennia. And the supreme response to insecurity is Sukkot.”

As the festival on which both temples were dedicated, Sukkot is associated in both prophetic and rabbinic literature with the messianic era—and historically with several. . .