festival of booths ("tabernacles"), one of the three chagim.
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How do you build an eruv from your house to your sukkah?
I know people do this (if there's no eruv in town, or if you're afraid the eruv will be down at the end of a 3-day yomtov); I think it involves a string from the sukkah to the house? Please explain.
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How do you illuminate your sukkah? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Advice for Lighting in a Sukkah
How do you keep your sukkah well-lit?
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What do sukkahmobiles use for schach, and how do they keep it fastened?
Are they able to drive the sukkahmobile without the schach falling off? (If you allow cable-ties you're all set, but if not ...)
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Is there a source for inverting the lulav while shaking it in different directions?
I was always told that when shaking the lulav towards the north, for instance, you keep the lulav oriented as usual (pointing towards the ceiling), just turn your body northwards first, and then ...
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Differences of Opinion in the Order of the Ushpizin
The order of the Ushpizin according to the Zohar (Thank you Mekubal!) corresponds to the order of the Sefiros each one represents. Why does the Shelah disagree and place Yosef before Moshe, Aharon, ...
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1answer
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How do I do the car-door-sukkah trick?
I know in theory, people on the road don't need to eat in a sukkah; at the same time, you're not supposed to go put yourself in that situation on purpose. ("Let's go take a chol hamoed trip -- oops ...
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Buying Arba Minnim- when is the best time?
There is a discussion in the Poskim whether one should purchase Arba Minnim during the Aseres Yemei Teshuva in order to increase your Mitzvos prior to Yom Kippur or should you wait till after Yom ...
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Can too many decorations render a sukkah invalid?
I've seen some sukkahs (especially ones where they've had big "make sukkah decorations" kids' projects) where there are tons and tons and tons of decorations hanging down from the schach. At what ...
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3answers
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Can you use plastic cable-ties to hold down your schach in your sukkah?
I've seen people use plastic cable-ties to hold down the schach in their sukkah (as they're not "makabel tuma"), but others who don't like it, I think because they're not plant matter? Can anyone ...
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How do you maximize your aravot's period of freshness?
Every Sukkot any aravot that I start the holiday with tend to get dried up by the end of the holiday, if not to the point of being unfit for service, at least enough to be ugly. What do you do to ...
