17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
A cloud of men

On the last day of the Jewish Sukkot ("Hosha'ana Raba"), the men at the synagogue, covered with their white cloth Talith, holding the Four species (the fruit of a citron tree, closed frond from a date palm tree, boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree and branches with leaves from the willow tree) and circling the Torah held in the center.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2019
Photo Location: Givat Shmuel, Israel
Camera: NIKON D500
Copyright: © Avichai Socher