Q 01/05

Sukkot begins on the 15th day of which Hebrew month?

A) Cheshvan

B) Nisan

C) Tishrei

D) Elul

Answer · why

C) Tishrei

Tishrei is the seventh month when counted from spring, so the Torah dates Sukkot to 'the fifteenth day of the seventh month' even though the Jewish ne...

Q 02/05

Sukkot begins five days after which Jewish holy day?

A) Rosh Hashanah

B) Yom Kippur

C) Shavuot

D) Tisha B'Av

Answer · why

B) Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur has barely ended when the mood flips from fasting to feasting: tradition urges families to start building the sukkah that same night, going...

Q 03/05

Sukkot is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals alongside Shavuot and which holiday?

A) Yom Kippur

B) Rosh Hashanah

C) Purim

D) Passover

Answer · why

D) Passover

Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot each drew Israelites to the Temple in Jerusalem, and Deuteronomy adds a rule for the journey: no pilgrim was to turn up e...

Q 04/05

By what English name is Sukkot also widely known?

A) Feast of Weeks

B) Feast of Tabernacles

C) Feast of Lights

D) Feast of Lots

Answer · why

B) Feast of Tabernacles

Feast of Tabernacles borrows the Latin tabernaculum, 'tent', itself from a word for a hut, which is why 'Feast of Booths' is the same name in plainer ...

Q 05/05

What is the Hebrew name for the roof covering of a sukkah?

A) Mechitza

B) S'chach

C) Chuppah

D) Bimah

Answer · why

B) S'chach

S'chach has to go on last: by tradition the covering only counts if it is laid once the sukkah's walls are already standing.