Celebrating Sukkot

David Greenfield shared these photographs of his grandchildren celebrating Sukkot, a Jewish holiday also known as the Feast of the Tabernacles. It comes five days after Yom Kippur. During Sukkot, which this year runs from Oct. 6 to 13, families build and decorate a sukkah, a structure representing the temporary dwelling that farmers built in the fields during the harvest. It also commemorates the fragile shelters the Jews lived in during their 40 years of living as nomads in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the holiday, families eat their meals and some even sleep under the sukkah. On each day of the holiday, observers perform a ceremony with a citron fruit and palm frond bound with myrtle and willow branches.