Sukkot

When your family’s Sukkot tradition involves visiting a sukkah built by someone else, constructing a harvest hut of your own doesn’t come up. Even after my husband and I had kids, a brief shake of the lulav in the synagogue sukkah always sufficed. A couple of years ago, we decided that building our own would […]

Here is a list of Scriptures to read during and in the time leading up to the Festival of Sukkot. This set apart time is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths, the Festival of Ingathering, and the Season of Joy, so there are certainly lots of Scriptures that would be appropriate for this time of year! This time is a reminder that YHWH dwells with us, and calls to mind both Yahusha's life and also his return when he will once again be physically present with us. Scriptures to read…

Sukkot is sometimes called the Jewish Thanksgiving. Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, is a celebration of the harvest and autumn season. Families build a Sukkah, a basic walled structure, to eat, pray and sometimes even sleep in for seven days. The purpose

Who needs ideas for their temporary dwelling? Scripture instructs us that during Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles we are to live in temporary dwellings or booths (Leviticus 23:42). While Judaism has many, many rules for how a sukkah should look and be, Scripture doesn't give specifics. So I have no doubt that YHWH expected us to each put our own spin on how we keep this commandment. I love getting to share sukkahs from several different feast keepers so you can see the range of…

Photo about the Four Species, symbols of the Jewish festival of Sukkot. Image of feast, religious, judaism - 20321726

Chag sameach! I hope you are enjoying this special and set apart time of year during the festival of Sukkot, when we are reminded that YHWH will eventually camp with us. I believe all the feast dates of YHWH were significant to Yahusha, not only in terms of life events, but also they must have held a special place in his heart. If we study Scripture we can see that he in fact did keep the feasts, including Sukkot. He spent time in a sukkah, he heard the appropriate Torah readings on it, he…

Many of you likely remember my blog posts that featured Jonathan Preece's beautiful holiday decorations. Jonathan, who is Creative Director and Special Projects Designer at Bunny Williams Inc. and Bunny Williams Home, has become a go-to person for creative and well-researched holiday decor. Over the years, Jonathan has done Thanksgiving tables, Passover tables, Saturnalia-themed vignettes, and Christmas decor. And now, we have Sukkot to add to the list. In 2006, long-time clients of Bunny…

I hope everyone's Sukkot is off to a great start! Ours started with a congregational gathering that was lovely, and building our sukkah (I'll share pictures later). Today's weather has been rain, which is a great reminder of how temporal a sukkah and indeed, our existence is since ours isn't waterproof! Hopefully it dries out soon. Our culture's holidays are all one day and that's what most of us think of when we think of Scriptural based celebrations. A lot of building up to the big day and…

Today is the first day of #Sukkot - one of my favorite Jewish holidays. Wrote a brief description on my blog along with a free download of this #illustration I did on the #symbolism of the #lulav and #etrog (link to blog post in profile). Wishing you all a #happysukkot and #chagsameach !!!! #sukkot2016 #jewishholiday #judaica Today is the first day of #Sukkot - one of my favorite Jewish holidays. Wrote a brief description on my blog along with a free download of this #illustration I did on…