the sukkah is a walled structure covered with organic material. on the holiday of sukkot, jewish people spend time in the sukkah, treating it like their home-away-from-home. we eat in the sukkah, study torah there, and do just about anything we'd normally do at home. often covered with bamboo mats, evergreen boughs or palm fronds, the sukkah evokes the temporary dwellings the israelites inhabited on their way out of egypt as described in the torah.
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