If you happen to be shopping in New City tomorrow, don’t be surprised if you see a mobile wooden shelter stationed in your supermarket’s parking lot.

The structure is called a sukkah, and it’s been scheduled to visit other parts of Clarkstown to mark the joyous Jewish holiday known as Sukkot.

The photo above is of the structure. (Caption info: From left, Debbie Herman of New City and Rabbi Yisroel Golberg eat cookies in Chabad of Rockland’s portable sukkah in the ShopRite parking lot in New City Oct. 6, 2006. Photo by Angela Gaul / The Journal News ).

Sukkot, a seven-day celebration that starts five days after Yom Kippur, is a remembrance of the desert wanderings of the Israelites after they were taken out of slavery in Egypt. It also is a celebration of the fall harvest.

Sukkot began Thursday (well, technically, it began at sundown on Wednesday), and runs through Wednesday. To mark the occasion, observant Jews build temporary huts outside their homes. They eat, sleep and pray in the structures to commemorate how the Israelites lived for 40 years after leaving Egypt.

Last year, shoppers were delighted to see the mobile sukkah, which is operated by Chabad of Rockland in New City. People had the opportunity to look inside, and also were invited to enter the structure and have a meal, as Jewish custom requires.

The sukkah will be at Clarkstown Plaza tomorrow between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., and at ShopRite in New City from 3 to 5 p.m.

Just so you know, the word “sukkah” is Hebrew for “booth.” The plural of the word is “sukkot.”