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Chag Shmini Atzeret and Simchat Torah Sameach and Shabbat Shalom!

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q_q_:
most people take a practical view on sukkot..

THe commonly taught thing is

7 days.

in diaspora,
2 days YT, 5 days CH.
in israel
1 day YT, 6 days CH

But really it doesn`t make sense to have a different number of days of Chol hamoed.
It is just that if in the diaspora, you overlap
1 day YT , 6 days CH
with the same thing a day later.
remember, in the diaspora, you keep both cases. The case of it being 29 days (as in israel now that they have a fixed calendar where the previous month is 29 days). And the case of the previous month being 30 days.

By keeping succot yom tov, you are keeping succot chol hamoed.

It is not quite the case that by keeping shmini atzeret yom tov, you are keeping succot chol hamoed. But  since the main thing of succot - the lulav and etrog, is not done. So  people don`t think of the day of SA also being  / overlapping with the 2nd 7th day of succot.

q_q_:
btw,


anybody anywhere and any website online, will say pesach is 8 days in the diaspora, and 7 days in israel.
Because any calendar says so.  And less importantly, so do Machzors(festival prayer books). in the diaspora.

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