Is October 5 2017 Part Of A Jewish Celebration?

The following is a collection of holidays, commemorations, observations and celebrations for the Jewish community during Thursday, 2017-10-05. For more information on the equivalence of dates in the Hebrew calendar and other calendars, please see Hebrew Calendar 5777.

• Sukkot starts:

  ^{[judaism][yom-tov][Shalosh-Regalim]} Sukkot, or sometimes written as Succot, is a biblical Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. It is one of the three biblically mandated festivals Shalosh regalim on which Hebrews were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Sukkot is intended as a reminiscence of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt.

Notes:

^[judaism] In Judaism, this day begins at sundown on the evening before.

^[yom-tov] This day is yom tov, so it has similar obligations and restrictions to Shabbat in the sense that normal work (melacha) is forbidden.

^{[Shalosh-Regalim]} Pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.