Hindus have sent greetings to Jewish communities all over the world for the Jewish festival of Sukkot

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a release in Nevada, expressed warmest greetings on the upcoming Sukkot, wishing happiness, health, peace, joy, prosperity, blessings and good times to all the Jews.

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Rajan Zed, who is the President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that all religions should work together for a just and peaceful world. Dialogue would bring us mutual enrichment, he added.

The festival of Sukkot, lasting seven days, is one of the three great pilgrimage festivals along with Passover and Shavuot. It is a joyful holiday and is referred as “z'man simhateinu” (season of our joy).

It is also harvest festival during which it is customary to construct and live in a temporary booth known as sukkah.

Hinduism is the predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent, has about 1 billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.