If the Jewish holiday of Sukkot is new to you, or in case you need a little refresher on what the big deal is, check it out: 

So let’s recap. Passover happened (see Collective Escape) and in a haste, the Israelites fled Egypt and are now heading through theSinai desert to the Promised Land.  Yeehaaw! Yes...Except that it’s taking them a whole 40 f*$%ing years. Well, thank goodness for BOOTHS or “Sukkahs” or in the plural, SUKKOT! These nifty - even if a little flimsy - hut-like structures (think the tween game MASH) kept the Israelites safe from heat-stroke and snake bites throughout those loooong years of wandering. In fact, these huts are so handy that God later decides to name one of the big harvest festivals after them (hence: Sukkot). God commands the Israelites to eat, sleep, and celebrate (good times come on!) in their sukkah for a full seven days as a way of remembering their miraculous survival in the wilderness and inability to read a map correctly (pre-GPS). Thousands of years later and we’re still at it, building and decorating our sukkot, partying away under the stars, and getting together to shake our lulav. Our what now? Oh, did we forget to mention that every day of the festival we grab a large pointy bouquet made up of four different plants – a lulav (palm frond), hadasim (myrtle branch), aravot (willow branch), and an etrog (like a large, lumpy lemon) - and shake it up, down, and all around. TOTALLY NORMAL, RIGHT? Yeah, us too…