Here is the whole verse: But Jacob traveled to Succoth. He built himself a house, but for his livestock he made sukkot [“booths”]. That is why the the place was named Succoth.

On a hilltop overlooking Beit El, an ancient stone building stands on top a large natural bedrock known as the site of Jacob's dream.

Sukkot teaches us that life is about family, friends, health, intellectual exchanges, spiritual enlightenment, and any other substantive features of life that go beyond material possessions.

Every Sukkot, families with sukkahs invite the spirits of the seven biblical matriarchs and patriarchs into their tent. These guests – or ushpizin – cut impressive figures. While we earthly ...

Of all the many holidays in the Jewish calendar, Jacob loved Sukkot the best. From his earliest days as a boy growing up in the city, he would look forward to that time of year when his father ...

We are taught that Jacob is the patriarch most associated with the holiday of Sukkot, and that tradition has it that Jacob died on Erev Sukkot in the year 2255 (1506 BCE).

Jews celebrate the week-long holiday of Sukkot at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Oct. 3, 2023. Photo by Eytan Schweber/TPS “Thousands of participants at Hallel prayer in the place where ...

Inside one of the seasonal markets that appear in Jewish neighborhoods in New York City ahead of Sukkot.

The kabbalistic ushpizin custom welcomes nightly into the sukkah one of Israel’s “seven shepherds” – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David. Why not expand the repertoire?

Sukkot is the plural of sukkah, “shelter,” especially a booth in the fields or outdoors built to provide temporary shelter* during harvest or fruit gathering (the Hebrew asiph, meaning fruit ...