Tag: Sukkot

My Dream Rainbow Sukkah and My Previous Sukkah~

A sukkah (Hebrew: סוכה‎, plural, סוכות sukkot ; sukkoth, often translated as “booth”) is a temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. It is topped with branches and often well decorated with autumnal, harvest or Judaic themes. The Book of Vayikra (Leviticus) describes it as a symbolic wilderness shelter, commemorating the time God provided for the Israelites in the wilderness they inhabited after they were freed from slavery in Egypt.[1] It is common for Jews to eat, sleep and otherwise spend time in the sukkah. In Judaism, Sukkot is considered a joyous occasion and is referred to in Hebrew as Yom Simchateinu (the day of our rejoicing) or Z’man Simchateinu (the time of our rejoicing), and the sukkah itself symbolizes the frailty and transience of life and its dependence on God.

The Day of Atonement this year:  September 22 through September 23.

The Feast of Tabernacles this year:  September 27 through October 5

I found this online from sukkot.com.  It is called ‘Jillian’s Sukkah’ and I think it is so beautiful!  I would love to be able to reproduce this if possible.

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Previous Sukkah:

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My Shelter for the Feast of Tabernacles~

Originally posted on September 15, 2013

The Feast of Tabernacles [the most important of all the feasts God commands]

  • The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast if Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.  ~Leviticus 23:34
  • On the first day there shall be a holy convocation.  You shall do customary work on it.  ~Leviticus 23:35
  • You shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.  ~Numbers 29:12
  • The priest shall celebrate the eucharist daily for eight days, with the first day being most important, and so on; in addition to the regular daily eucharist.  ~Numbers 29:13-39
  • On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, a solemn assembly, and you shall offer an offering to the LORD.  it is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.  Leviticus 23:36
  • And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit (foliage) of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.  ~Leviticus 23:40
  • You shall dwell in booths for seven days, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.  ~Leviticus 23:42-43
  • It shall be a statute forever in your generations.  ~Leviticus 23:41

Occurring this year (2013) September 19th at twilight and ending September 27th at nightfall.

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