Sukkot

After Rosh Hashanah comes the Jewish holiday Sukkot or the feast of tabernacles. This holiday comes from the old testament when God told the Israelites to come to the temple once a year and dwell in booths for a week to remember the 40 years they lived in tents wandering in the wilderness. It is also a holiday celebrating the harvest. We read about the holiday in the Bible and we watched videos explaining how it is celebrated by Jews and Messianic Jews today. It helps remind us that everything we have here is temporary and points forward to our permanent home in the new earth. It is also a time to give of what we have to others who are less fortunate.

To celebrate we made little table top sukkahs and we decorated our pop up shade over our picnic table and ate outside with our special candles. Another tradition is to camp out in your sukkahs. Cas and Caleb were able to do that but Ari and I had a Pathfinder Camporee to go on so we still got to camp, just not in the sukkahs.