Sukkos is 9 Days…?

asg

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:26 pm

How old were you when you realized that Sukkos is a day longer than Pesach? In shock when my husband informed me. Makes me wonder what else I don’t know…

shabbatiscoming ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:32 pm

asg wrote:

How old were you when you realized that Sukkos is a day longer than Pesach? In shock when my husband informed me. Makes me wonder what else I don’t know…

It is not. Sukot is 7 days and then shmini atzeret and simchat torah are right after, but they are not part of sukot. And the proof in that is that at least most people, do not sit in the sukah.

water_bear88 ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:36 pm

I know I was already married when I realized Sukkot has a longer Chol Hamoed than Pesach.

↑ shabbatiscoming ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:40 pm

water_bear88 wrote:

I know I was already married when I realized Sukkot has a longer Chol Hamoed than Pesach.

Please explain. Each chag has the first day of chag and the last day of chag. Or two in chul. Its the same amount of day. How can one have a longer chol hamoed than the other. It only depends when the first chag fall out how many days o chol hamoed is.

↑ water_bear88 ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:48 pm

shabbatiscoming wrote:

In Israel, days 2-7 of Sukkot are Chol Hamoed, while for Pesach only days 2-6 are. In Chutz La'aretz, that's 3-7 and 3-6, respectively.

kugelEater

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:50 pm

No. The last day of Sukkos is Hoshana Rabbah. I don't think we hold it is the same as CH"M. I think I saw in my siddur that kedushah is different on Hoshana Rabbah, and a lot of people have a seuda or two.

↑ shabbatiscoming

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:50 pm

water_bear88 wrote:

In Israel, days 2-7 of Sukkot are Chol Hamoed, while for Pesach only days 2-6 are. In Chutz La'aretz, that's 3-7 and 3-6, respectively.

Ah, right, there is no last day of sukot chag. My bad. Too much yuntiv catching up with me Smile

↑ water_bear88

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 3:52 pm

shabbatiscoming wrote:

Ah, right, there is no last day of sukot chag. My bad. Too much yuntiv catching up with me Smile

I'm just happy to know I'm not the only one confused by it! I feel like every year since I first figured it out I need to recalculate it.

Elfrida

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 5:24 pm

Big clue.
Shmini Atzeret is on the eighth day.
Then add an extra day for chutz l'aretz.

wanttobehappy

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:20 pm

I thought ur saying it as in the 9 days as we don’t do laundry 🧺….

Blessing1 ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 8:23 pm

water_bear88 wrote:

I know I was already married when I realized Sukkot has a longer Chol Hamoed than Pesach.

Sukkos does not have a longer chol hamoed than pesach. Hoshana Raba is following chol hamoed & is the last day of sukkos. Hoshana Raba is not part of chol hamoed.

Bethany85 ↓

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 9:43 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

Sukkos does not have a longer chol hamoed than pesach. Hoshana Raba is following chol hamoed & is the last day of sukkos. Hoshana Raba is not part of chol hamoed.

It is definitely chol hamoed. It’s not Yom Tov.

Amelia Bedelia

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 9:58 pm

I was a kid. And in school we always learned when we say hallel shalem (which I was always wondering about because it doesn't work in Eretz Yisroel)- בבטח.
ב- פסח (first two days)
ב- שבועות
ט- סוכות (and שמיני עצרת)
ח- חנוכה

Iow, we learned that we say whole hallel all 9 days of Sukkos

rising hero

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 10:12 pm

Right. This coming pesach we're having three days Yom tov first days but not second days cuz there's one day less (hoshana rabba and Shevii shel pesach are the seventh day)

smile12345

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 10:36 pm

shabbatiscoming wrote:

It is not. Sukot is 7 days and then shmini atzeret and simchat torah are right after, but they are not part of sukot. And the proof in that is that at least most people, do not sit in the sukah.

If not for shmini atzeres, everyone WOULD sit in the sukkah in chutz la'aretz on that day because there's always an extra day of the chag. The reason people some don't is only because it's also a new chag of shmini atzeres. (Though most people I know actually do eat in the sukkah on shmini atzeres in chutz la'aretz.)

↑ Blessing1

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 10:39 pm

Bethany85 wrote:

It is definitely chol hamoed. It’s not Yom Tov.

It's yom tov, it's hoshana Raba.
Just like chanuka & purim are yom tov & not called chol hamoed.

NechaMom

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 10:41 pm

asg wrote:

How old were you when you realized that Sukkos is a day longer than Pesach? In shock when my husband informed me. Makes me wonder what else I don’t know…

I don't remember how old I was when I noticed sukkos has 1 day less than pesach and then an additional 2 days of a new yom tov right after.

↑ Bethany85

Sat, Oct 26 2024, 11:18 pm

Blessing1 wrote:

It's yom tov, it's hoshana Raba.
Just like chanuka & purim are yom tov & not called chol hamoed.

Chanuka and Purim are not Yom Tov. Yom Tov is a halachic term that connotes issur melacha.