Sukkot

15 Tishri (September or October) a nine-day festival, including Shemini Azeret and Simchat Torah

To me it is the finest time of the year.... The sun no longer bakes like an oven, but caresses with a heavenly softness. The woods are still green, the pines give out a pungent smell. In my yard stands the succah—the booth I have built for the holiday, covered with branches, and around me the forest looks like a huge succah designed for God himself. Here, I think, God celebrates his Succos.

—SHOLOM ALEICHEM, “HODEL”