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Meet You At Essex & Canal For Some Pop-Up Sukkot Holiday Shopping image

Meet You At Essex & Canal For Some Pop-Up Sukkot Holiday Shopping
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The intersection of downtown's Canal and Essex has long been a favorite for seasonal Jewish holiday shopping. Specifically, for the date palm fronds, ritual citron fruits, myrtle and willow branches required for prayers on the Sukkoth, or sukes in Yiddish, harvest holiday. These are still only sold in the brief window of time that is the week after the Day of Atonement and the start of Sukkoth, usually by local community street vendors that build temporary pop-up kiosks just for that purpose.

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Canal and Essex Street

Hoshana Raba, marking the last days of Succoth. Two pious men making their careful selections among the delicate plants prayerfully called "Hoshanoth". These slender twigs are beaten in prayer to shed their tiny leaves as a symbol of the shedding of the sins of the year gone by. (New York, New York, 1951)
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