Sukkah in the Jerusalem kehilla
According to custom, the members of the Jerusalem kehilla joined thousands of others in Jerusalem in setting up a sukkah in the courtyard of the house of the kehilla.
The period between Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and the beginning of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) is characterized by the sound of hammers and the selling of decorations in the streets. In the home of the Jerusalem kehilla, Father Rafic, the responsible for the kehilla, the residents of the house, the two seminarians Benedetto and Hidrimariam, three brothers of Sion from Ein Karem and some other members of the kehilla worked together to build the sukkah (a temporary tabernacle used during the Feast of Tabernacles) in the courtyard of the Vicariate.