Hi. I wanted to wish anyone who's celebrating Sukkot a wonderful set of days...

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From when I was 7 to 46 I lived in two about 2/3rd"s Jewish Neighborhoods in Manhattan: '60 - '00, or '01. [An aside - re the High Holy days on the weekdays we gentiles loved having a sort of
off-school day in school bc with about 1/2 - 2/3 (not everyone observed ) of our Jewish friends, and classmates out our teachers couldn't really teach anything new! ]

I used to love watching the Sukkahs being built. Always an architecture, and structures fan so it was fascinating. If I didn't know which day it started I'd know bc I'd hear the voices, and sound of the metal pipes being put together not too far from my different windows.
I loved the pine, fir tree branches used for the roof. The singing was pretty nice.
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Since I mentioned I love architecture & structures; there was an outdoor exhibit back around ? '15, maybe earlier in NYC's Union Square of modern, or very creative, and differently designed Sukkahs.
It was so Interesting, creative, often beautiful!

I've also aways loved exhibits, challenge-games, or competitions (whether for prizes, or fun) where everyone is given certain materials to start with often with some set of parameters, and they then add some of their own items into the final piece.
This type of contest was done before TV cooking show competitions, before the internet in specialty magazines; in my case jewelry making magazines.
This exhibit so fit the bill.

And sorry for anyone's Sukkah structure that got messed up in yesterday's deluge!

[Deuxcents]

1. I don't know what Sukoh is so I looked it up..

Is it to celebrate the fall harvest? It says it’s a joyful time with festivities for families and friends and commemorates the40 years the Jews spent trying to escape slavery in Egypt. Why is it spelled Sukkot? Took me a while to find sukoh..are they the same? When I come across a post that I’ve never heard about, I look it up…always learning something here 🤔

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2. Same word. I suspect that the OP is from a Yiddish pronunciation that often drops the t at the

and of a word.

(And now go and search for the meaning of Yiddish..)

[Deuxcents]

3. I'm from Miami originally so I know what Yiddish is..

I did look it up, tho. Very interesting and a dank 🙏

[electric_blue68]

5. 👋 Seems I misspelled it. But maybe as you said I might have *heard* it pronounced the way you...

explained it. 👍

[electric_blue68]

4. Oops! My Fault. I was Tired, Misspelled it. It's Sukkot, and the structure us is a Sukkah.

Apologies!

[electric_blue68]

7. I read both - the 40 days, and celebrating the Fall harvest.

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6. OK, I think I corrected all my misspellings in my OP