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Sukkot Summary
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SUKKOT is the Hebrew name for the Jewish autumnal festival, also called the Festival of Booths, or Tabernacles. Sukkot begins on the fifteenth day of the month of Tishri and lasts for seven days, followed by an eighth day called ʿAtseret...
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Sukkot : Judaism Terms
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One of Judaism’s three pilgrimage festivals (alongside PASSOVER and SHABU‘OT), celebrated on the first full moon after the autumnal equinox. Called in English “Tabernacles,” Sukkot is celebrated as “The Season of Our...
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Sukkot : Judaic Terms
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(Hebrew. ‘Booths’) One of the *Pilgrim festivals. Sukkot begins on Tishri 15 and ends with *Shemini Atzeret and *Simhat Torah. During the eight days, the Jewish community is commanded to ‘dwell in booths’ to commemorate the...
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Shemini Atzeret : Judaism Terms
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(Hebrew: “Eighth day of convocation”) The eighth and final day of the festival of SUKKOT (Leviticus 23:34–36), understood within post-biblical Judaism to be a separate festival unto itself. In the synagogue, a special prayer that...
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Sukkot Information
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Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות or סֻכּוֹת, sukkōt ; "booths", also known as Succoth, Sukkos, Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles), is a Biblical pilgrimage festival that occurs in autumn on the 15th day of the month of Tishri (late...
 


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The Jewish Week
Sukkot And Solace
09/28/2001: 412 words, approx. 1 pages
The Jewish Week 09-28-2001 Sukkot And Solace In times of crisis, we as a people have always turned to our faith, tradition and the words of our sages to give us comfort, and even hope. Today is no different. Only two weeks...
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Washington Jewish Week
The Torah of Sukkot
09/27/2007: 1,230 words, approx. 4 pages
D'varTorah For some, the very idea of religion is paradoxical. On the one hand, we want to experience God, to soar to great spiritual heights. But on the other hand, we are often taken aback by the seemingly picayune details of our rituals:...
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Evangelicals recall Jericho's walls
9/29/2007: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
The walls of Jericho came crashing down again at this spa resort on the Dead Sea, with all the bright lights and fanfare of a Broadway show.Actors dressed in biblical garb blasting ram horns and riding camels re-enacted Joshua's siege of the ancient city for...
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Hundreds of Brazilians flock to Jordan River for mass baptism
10/1/2007: 387 words, approx. 1 pages
Hundreds of white-robed Christian pilgrims from Brazil entered the gently flowing waters of the Jordan River on Monday, some so overcome with emotion that they sobbed and collapsed on the shoulders of friends even before it was their turn to be immersed.The Brazilians, more than...
 


 

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