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Succoth

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Succoth (sŭk`ŏth), in the Bible.

1 City, ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan, by the Jabbok River, where Jacob paused on his return to his native land. Through it Gideon passed in pursuit of the Midianites. It is the modern Tell Deir Alla (Jordan). Psalm 60 refers to the Valley of Succoth.

2 Place, Egypt, where the Israelites made their first camp on their exodus.


Sukkoth, Succoth
an eight-day Jewish harvest festival beginning on Tishri 15, which commemorates the period when the Israelites lived in the wilderness


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Strapped for cash and eager to have a child by his wife of five years, the deeply religious Moshe Belanga (Rand) gets a miraculous windfall on the eve of the feast of Succoth, when orthodox Jews must live in temporary dwellings to celebrate the wandering in the wilderness before coming to the Promised Land.
Moscowitz also recounted that her family had a bottle thrown at them as they held a Succoth ceremony); see also Panzer, supra note 10.
Today is a national holiday in Israel when they celebrate Succoth.
 
 
 
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