Editing Sukkot (section)

=== ''Hakhel'' assembly ===
{{Main|Hakhel}}
[[File:Flickr_-_Government_Press_Office_(GPO)_-_Sukkah_in_Abu_Kabir.jpg|thumb|250px|A young family standing outside the modest sukkah they built for the holiday, [[Israel]], 1949]]

In the days of the [[Temple in Jerusalem]], all Israelite, and later Jewish men, women, and children on pilgrimage to [[Jerusalem]] for the festival would gather in the Temple courtyard on the first day of Chol HaMoed Sukkot to hear the Jewish king read selections from the [[Torah]]. This ceremony, which was mandated in [[Deuteronomy]] 31:10–13, was held every seven years, in the year following the [[Shmita]] (Sabbatical) year. This ceremony was discontinued after the destruction of the Temple, but it has been revived in Israel since 1952 on a smaller scale.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Appel |first=Gershion |title=A Revival of the Ancient Assembly of Hakhel |journal=Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought |date=Fall 1959 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=119–127 |jstor=23255504}}</ref>