Sukkot 2024—What Are We Celebrating?
The strangest thing about the Sukkot holiday is that we do not really know what we are celebrating. The Torah says: “You shall live in huts seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in huts (sukkot), in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in huts when I brought them out of the land of Egypt (Leviticus 23:42-43)”. Yet, nowhere in the entire Exodus narrative does it say that God made us live in huts.
