Jewish people in Israel and around the world began the weeklong Sukkot festival Monday night.
Sukkot is a Torah commanded Jewish holiday celebrated for seven days from the 15th day of the month of Tishrei.
Sukkot commemorates the 40 years the Jewish spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land after escaping slavery in Egypt.
The word “Sukkot” means “booths,” and refers to the temporary dwellings that Jewish people live in during this holiday in memory of the period of wandering.
Christians are not obligated to practice Sukkot but can if they so desire.
No work is permitted to the Jewish people on the first and second days of the holiday. In honor of the holiday’s historical significance, Jewish people dwell in temporary shelters, as their ancestors did in the wilderness.
The temporary shelter is referred to as a sukkah. A sukkah must have at least two and a half walls covered with a material that will not blow away in the wind. It is common practice, to decorate the sukkah.
In the northeastern United States, Jews commonly hang dried squash and corn in the sukkah to decorate it, because these vegetables are readily available at that time for the American holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Many families hang artwork drawn by the children on the walls. Building and decorating a sukkah is a fun family project. The Sukkot festival starts Monday evening September 20th and ends Monday evening September 27th.
Shalom to all the Jewish people which is a Hebrew word meaning peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare, and tranquility and can be used to mean both hello and goodbye.
Pray for the Jewish people that they come to the knowledge of the truth that Yeshua is the Christ.
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Romans 20:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
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