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Rabbi James Michaels of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington explains the significance of building sukkahs or temporary shelters for eating and worshipping during Sukkot, a harvest festival when Jews recall their ancestors\u2019 forty years of wandering in the desert after their escape from slavery in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yom Kippur \u201cwas thinking, sitting, and praying,\u201d says Rabbi James Michaels of the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington. \u201cSukkot is just the opposite.\u201d It is, he observes, \u201csomething that really gives us a very nice feeling of being alive.\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":24365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[978,17918,8713,8710],"class_list":["post-24333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-holidays","tag-jewish","tag-sukkahs","tag-sukkot","topics-belief-and-practice","faith-jewish"],"yoast_head":"\nSukkot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sukkot is an important Jewish festival that celebrates \u201can indulging of the senses.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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