What is Sukkot?

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to YHVH. On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of YHVH for seven days, with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day. You shall thus celebrate it a feast to YHVH for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.' (Leviticus 23:34, 39,41)

Sukkot (the plural of sukkah) is one of the seven biblically commanded feasts of YHVH also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths. It begins on the full moon in the Hebrew month of Tishrei.

What is a sukkah?

During Sukkot, we live in a sukkah, which is a booth, tabernacle, tent or temporary dwelling for animals.

Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth. (Genesis 33:17)

Why do we live in a sukkah at this time?

You shall live in booths (sukkot) for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths, so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am YHVH your Elohim. (Leviticus 23:42-43)

What is the history of Sukkot?

The sons of Israel first camped at Succoth when they left Egypt. (Exodus 12:37)
The nation of Israel lived in sukkot for 40 years in the wilderness. (Leviticus 23:43)
The Temple of Solomon was dedicated during the Feast of Sukkot (2 Chronicles 8:8-10)
While Israel was in the land, they kept the Feast of Sukkot. (2 Chronicles 8:13)
After the Babylonian exile, 'They celebrated the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the fixed number of burnt offerings daily, according to the ordinance, as each day required.' (Ezra 3:4)
At that time, Nehemiah told them to, 'Go out to the hills, and bring olive branches and wild olive branches, myrtle branches, palm branches and branches of other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.' So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim. The entire assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in them. The sons of Israel had indeed not done so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day. And there was great rejoicing. (Nehemiah 8:15-17)
Yeshua, the Lamb of Elohim, was born in a sukkah at the time of Sukkot in the lambing sukkot near Beitlechem! The swaddling cloths were not just baby blankets - they were cloths used in the inspection of lambs to be sacrificed at the Temple.
The Feast was observed during the time of the days when Yeshua the Messiah walked the earth.
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near. (John 7:2)
Yeshua declared Himself to be the Water of Life during the Water Pouring Ceremony on the Last Great Day (the eighth day of Sukkot, a sabbath mentioned in Leviticus 23).
He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.' (John 7:38)
On the tree, out of Yeshua's side, with the blood, did rivers of living water flow?
But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. (John 19:34)

What other commandments are there about Sukkot?

...All your males shall appear before YHVH your Elohim in the place which He chooses, at the...Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before YHVH empty-handed. (Deuteronomy 16:16)
...Rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day. (Leviticus 23:39)
...Present an offering by fire to YHVH. (Leviticus 23:26)
Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before YHVH your Elohim for seven days. (Leviticus 23:40)

What is the future of Sukkot?

Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the Messiah, YHVH Tsva'ot, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which YHVH smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. (Zechariah 14:16, 18-19)