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‖ succah
(ˈsʊkə, ‖ suˈka)
Also sukkah,
[Heb. sukkāh, lit. ‘hut’.]
One of the booths in which a practising Jew spends part of the Feast of the Tabernacles. Cf. Succoth.
[1819Christian Spectator I. 126/2 They made booths, in Hebrew succoth, that is, sheds or hovels of thorn bushes.] 1875J. Picciotto Sk. Anglo-Jewish Hist. xvi. 140 The Succoths [sic] or tabernacles were then, as at present, decorated with fruits and flowers. 1905Jewish Encycl. XI. 660/2 The sukkah or booth was to be a structure especially built for the festival. 1925Public Opinion 4 Sept. 220/3 A sukkah for use during the Feast of Tabernacles. 1970New Yorker 20 June 32/2 The Rabbi's disciples escorted her personally into the sukkah. 1979Jewish Chron. 7 Dec. 39/1 Tradition has it that the minute Yom Kippur ends, you dash out and erect the first plank of the Succah. Tradition in our house has it that as soon as Succot is over, you dash out looking for the first Chanucah presents. 1981C. Potok Bk. of Lights (1982) vi. 191 ‘What do you want built, chaplain?’ ‘It's called a succah. It's a kind of booth or hut with wooden sides and an open roof covered with leaves and branches.’ |