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It is Thursday. We are right in the

midst of the holiday of Sukkot. On the one hand, it is at the beginning of the new year in the

Jewish calendar of tradition. It is in the seventh month in the biblical calendar, but it completes a series of

one holiday or holy day after another, beginning with the sounding of the shofar, the feast of

trumpets, which has become Rosh Hashanah in Jewish tradition, the first day of the seventh month

in the biblical calendar. Ten days later, Yom Kipp day of the seventh month in the biblical calendar.

Ten days later, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the calendar, the day of atonement.

Then five days after that, the seven-day celebration of Sukkot, tabernacles where traditional

Jews around the world will make a succor, make a booth in the back of their house.

It could be on the roof, a flat roof of a house,

and we'll have meals there and fulfill traditional commandments in doing so.

And then there's an additional day called Shminiat Seret, which has been appended to it,

a final day of celebration and also customary rejoicing in the Torah, Simchat Torah,

as the cycle of reading through the five books of Moses on an annual basis comes to an end.

This is now the time of celebration, often a time of study of Torah, through the night.

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