On 14 October, Nisa-Nashim co-founder, Laura Marks hosted friends and colleagues in her beautiful sukkah at home.
On each day of the holiday it is a mitzvah – or commandment – to perform a waving ceremony with the Four Species, as well as to sit in the sukkah during the holiday.
It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals on which those who could were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. In addition to its harvest roots, the holiday also holds spiritual importance with regard to its abandonment of materialism to focus on nationhood, spirituality, and hospitality, this principle underlying the construction of a temporary, almost nomadic, structure of a sukkah.