Shemini Atzeres
Contributed by Moza
"...Shemini Atzeres falls the day after Succos, though it is a holiday unto itself, and was supposed to have been in the month of Cheshvan instead (it was moved up in time to after Succos, according to the Midrash, to save the Jewish people from having to come up to the Temple during the rainy season)."
[Perceptions, Copyright (c) 1998 Rabbi Pinchas Winston and Project Genesis, Inc. Rabbi Winston teaches at both Neve Yerushalyim (Jerusalem) - http://www.torah.org/neve/ and Neveh Tzion (Telzstone) - http://www.neveh.org/] Oct 4, 1998
