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  1. In Judaism, a harvest festival celebrated in
  2. Oct, also known as the Feast of Booths, which
  3. commemorates the time when the Israelites
  4. lived in the wilderness during the Exodus
  5. from Egypt. As a reminder of the shelters
  6. used in the wilderness, huts are built and
  7. used for eating and sleeping during the seven
  8. days of the festival.
  9.