Please join us for Evensong at 7 pm this Sunday.
Sukkot (which may also be called “The Feast of Tabernacles) is an 8 day festival that occurs 5 days after Yom Kippur (this year (2012) Sukkot begins on September 30th at sundown). Sukkot is one of the three most important festivals of the Jewish people. Read about Sukkot in Leviticus 23:42-43 and Zechariah 14:16-19.
Sukkot has 2 main emphases:
1. Thanksgiving for the harvest. Sukkot is a joyful celebration of the fall harvest. (When the Pilgrims celebrated the first “Thanksgiving Day,” the idea came from the Bible’s description of this feast.)
2. Remembering that this life is temporary but God is able both to protect His people during their pilgrimage and to deliver them safely to Himself. (Tabernacles (little huts) are build during Sukkot as a reminder of the wilderness wanderings and the lessons that God intended for his people to learn therein.)
Jewish families celebrate Sukkot by making temporary booths outside (usually on their backyards or decks). It is a rule that the booth cannot be a permanent structure – it is mean to be a fragile/temporary structure and the roof must be open so that you can see the stars at night (this reminds you that God is our ultimate shelter and He is the one who will guard and protect us).
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