Sukkot is the holiday of celebrating the harvest. It's the last of the Shalosh Regalim (three pilgrimage festivals).
The word "Sukkot" means "booths," and refers to the temporary dwellings that we are commanded to live in during this holiday in memory of the period of wandering (forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters).
Agriculturally, Sukkot is a harvest festival and is sometimes referred to as Chag Ha-Asif, the Festival of Ingathering.
Services play an important role in the communal celebration of Sukkot. There are special festival readings, including Psalms of Praise (Hallel) and Hoshana. During the Hoshana prayers, congregants march around the synagogue sanctuary holding the lulav and etrog. The seventh and last day of the festival is called Hoshanah Rabba, the “Great Hoshana.”
Hag Sameach Sukkot
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