Sukkot

After leaving the land of the Pharaoh, our people wandered the desert for forty years until they reached the Promised Land. During all that time, our people had to live in fragile dwellings erected in the middle of the desert.\n This is what we remember when we celebrate Sukkot, one of the three Shalosh Regalim. Although it was customary for the Shalosh Regalim to consist in a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices in the temple, that's not possible anymore since the destruction of the Second Temple. Thus, we must make an effort to remember while celebrating.\nBy building and living in temporary dwellings during Sukkot we partake in the hardships our people had to suffer in the past, and we remember. And by partaking in all this shared suffering our people will be aware that we have more things in common than those that make us apart.