SUKKOT - Feast of Tabernacles

God has seven ordained feasts - God's prophetic plan and timeclock to usher in everlasting righteousness. God's feasts are 'everlasting' -- God is an 'everlasting God'. God's feasts mark God's divine appointment in meeting with man. Sukkot is the 'seventh of seven' and, especially for the Christian, is a feast of ABIDING FAITH. This feast is as the beginning and the end, the end and the beginning. Sukkot ushers in the civil year, yet it ends the biblical feast year. We are now in the midst of the 8 day celebration of Sukkot.

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On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for the L-RD. -Leviticus 23:34

The Festival of Sukkot begins on Tishri 15, the fifth day after Yom Kippur. It is quite a drastic transition, from one of the most solemn holidays in our year to one of the most joyous. Sukkot is so unreservedly joyful that it is commonly referred to in Jewish prayer and literature as Z'man Simchateinu , the Season of our Rejoicing.

Sukkot is the last of the Shalosh R'galim (three pilgrimage festivals). Like Passover and Shavu'ot, Sukkot has a dual significance: historical and agricultural. Historically, Sukkot commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters. Agriculturally, Sukkot is a harvest festival and is sometimes referred to as Chag Ha-Asif , the Festival of Ingathering.

The word "Sukkot" means "booths," and refers to the temporary dwellings that we are commanded to live in during this holiday in memory of the period of wandering. The Hebrew pronunciation of Sukkot is "Sue COAT," but is often pronounced as in Yiddish, to rhyme with "BOOK us." The name of the holiday is frequently translated "Feast of Tabernacles," which, like many translations of Jewish terms, isn't very useful. This translation is particularly misleading, because the word "tabernacle" in the Bible refers to the portable Sanctuary in the desert, a precursor to the Temple called in Hebrew "mishkan." The Hebrew word "sukkah" (plural: "sukkot") refers to the temporary booths that people lived in, not to the Tabernacle.

Sukkot lasts for seven days. The two days following the festival, Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, are separate holidays but are related to Sukkot and are commonly thought of as part of Sukkot.

The festival of Sukkot is instituted in Leviticus 23:33 et seq. No work is permitted on the first and second days of the holiday. (See Extra Work Holidays [http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday0.htm#Extra] for an explanation of why the Bible says one day but we observe two). Work is permitted on the remaining days. These intermediate days on which work is permitted are referred to as Chol Ha-Mo'ed, as are the intermediate days of Passover.

More thoughts on Sukkot from Rabbi Daniel Lapin - well worth consideration:

Sukkot, which is set by an exquisitely precise lunar calendar, always occurs in the fall. That time of the year as the leaves fall and the days get colder and shorter, can feel quite lifeless. Hence Halloween’s frivolous mocking of death. But what links Sukkot and death? Sukkot is commonly called the Festival of the Gathering, because of this verse: Observe the Festival of Sukkot for seven days when you have gathered in your grain and your wine. (Deuteronomy 16:13)

Yet it could also be known as the festival of dying. You see, in Hebrew, the word for ‘gather,’ ASaF, also means dying, as we see in these examples:

Isaac…died, and was gathered to his people… (Genesis 35:29)

When Jacob finished commanding his sons…
(he) was gathered unto his people. (Genesis 49:33)

Die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people;
as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people.
(Deuteronomy 32:50)

As Thought Tool enthusiasts already know, Hebrew words which seem to mean two separate things or ideas are really closely related. Thus ‘Festival of the Gathering’ also means ‘Festival of Death’. But why would the most joyful Biblical holyday carry even a hint of death? For a clue, we need to examine an incident late in the life of Moses.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Avenge the Children of Israel from the Midianites; afterwards shall you be gathered to your people. And Moses spoke to the people saying, ‘Arm yourselves for war and go against the Midianites… (Numbers 31:1-3). A lesser man hearing that this would be his final mission might have dawdled in launching the war. He might have described the delay as necessary for adequate military preparation. But ancient Jewish wisdom observes that though Moses clearly knew that after this mission he would die, he nonetheless wasted no time in carrying it out. This final opportunity for Moses to obey God carried a special quality which it wouldn’t have possessed if there would be countless future such opportunities. If great wine cost a dollar a bottle, it would soon lose its specialness. The value of any limitless commodity is zero. Without death, there can ultimately be no life. A life lived forever would be diminished ...

The word SUKKOT means booths, temporary shelter, from the root word 'SUKKAH':

SUKKAH
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...............................EXT ARM....................PALM of HAND......................WEDDING RING
.......................BEHOLD the Lamb..................POWER............................ENDLESS LIFE
...............................BEHOLD..........................POWER..........................[LIFE] SUPPORT

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SUKKOT
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...............CROSS.......................NAIL.................PALM of HAND............WEDDING RING
..............SEALED.....................LIGHT.....................POWER ...................BRIDEGROOM
........SAVING HEALTH.......CONNECT to.............SUBDUE evil ...............ENDLESS LIFE

..........SIGN / FAITH.........CONNECTED................POWER...................[LIFE] SUPPORT

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SELAH
SHALOM!