Articles tagged with "Sukkot"

Sukkot makes joyful noise

Submitted by: Messianicmiriam, October 11th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

Hands clapping, voices raised in song, bongos pounding, guitars strumming open chords, tambourines shaking wildly — this was the opening scene of the Feast of Tabernacles at Olive Tree Messianic Temple on Saturday night.



The succa and the swastika

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, October 11th, 2009 Topic: Education Forums

Succot, 1936. The newly appointed German consul-general to Jerusalem, Herr Walter Doehl, stood at his office window hung with an extravagantly tasseled swastika banner, and gazed with curiosity at the sight of clusters of bearded Jews, all draped in prayer shawls and resplendent in the styles and furs of late-medieval Poland, entering and exiting a ramshackle foliage-thatched booth on the other side of the Street of the Prophets where his legation was situated, each clutching what seemed to him to be a lemon and a palm frond. 



Feast of Booths

Submitted by: josiah, April 15th, 2008 Topic: Hillel Forums

The Feasts of Booths, known as Sukkot, is a seven-day feast that remembers when the Israelites dwelled in the desert in tents as they crossed the wilderness with Moses. Most traditional Jews each build a small open-roofed booth-like structure to dwell in for this week-long feast.



The Feast of Sukkot

Submitted by: TMC, February 8th, 2008 Topic: Hillel Forums