They put that up for three days a year!”

There is a wonderful story about a synagogue in South Africa that hired a team of workers to put up a large Sukkah — the temporary hut used on the holiday of Sukkot. The workmen were fascinated by what they were building and asked the synagogue caretaker what this strange structure was being built for. They had never seen anything quite like it, somewhere between a house and a tent. He explained to the workers that the ‘structure’ was called a Sukkah and that it was needed for the upcoming eight-day Jewish holiday. The workers were incredulous. They said to the caretaker, “Do you actually mean to tell us that we’re putting all of this up for just eight days a year?” All that work was for little more than a week. They could not believe it. 

And the caretaker turned and pointed to the synagogue and said, “That’s nothing; they put that up for three days a year!”