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Sukkot,Template:Efn also known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths, is a Torah-commanded Jewish holiday celebrated for seven days, beginning on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. It is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals on which Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Biblically an autumn harvest festival and a commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt, Sukkot's modern observance is characterized by festive meals in a sukkah, a temporary wood-covered hut.
The names used in the Torah are "Festival of Ingathering" (or "Harvest Festival", Template:Langx)<ref name =com>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and "Festival of Booths" (Template:Langx).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name =com/> This corresponds to the double significance of Sukkot. The one mentioned in the Book of Exodus is agricultural in nature—"Festival of Ingathering at the year's end" (Template:Bibleverse)—and marks the end of the harvest time and thus of the agricultural year in the Land of Israel. The more elaborate religious significance from the Book of Leviticus is that of commemorating the Exodus and the dependence of the Israelites on the will of God (Template:Bibleverse).
As an extension of its harvest festival community roots, the idea of welcoming all guests and extending hospitality is intrinsic to the celebration. Actual and symbolic "guests" (Aramaic: ushpizin) are invited to participate by visiting the sukkah. Specifically, seven "forefathers" of the Jewish people are to be welcomed during the seven days of the festival, in this order: Day 1: Abraham; Day 2: Isaac; Day 3: Jacob; Day 4: Moses; Day 5: Aaron; Day 6: Joseph; Day 7: David.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The holiday lasts seven days. The first day (and second day in the diaspora) is a Shabbat-like holiday when work is forbidden. This is followed by intermediate days called Chol HaMoed, during which certain work is permitted. The festival is closed with another Shabbat-like holiday called Shemini Atzeret (one day in the Land of Israel, two days in the diaspora, where the second day is called Simchat Torah).
The Hebrew word Template:Transliteration is the plural of sukkah ('booth' or 'tabernacle') which is a walled structure covered with s'chach (plant material, such as overgrowth or palm leaves). A sukkah is the name of the temporary dwelling in which farmers would live during harvesting, reinforcing agricultural significance of the holiday introduced in the Book of Exodus. As stated in Leviticus, it is also reminiscent of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites dwelled during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the holiday, meals are eaten inside the sukkah and many people sleep there as well.
On each day of the holiday it is a mitzvah, or commandment, to 'dwell' in the sukkah and to perform a shaking ceremony with a lulav (a palm frond, then bound with myrtle and willow), and an etrog (the fruit of a citron tree) (collectively known as the four species). The fragile shelter, the 'now-three-item' lulav, the etrog, the revived Simchat Beit HaShoeivah celebration's focus on water and rainfall and the holiday's harvest festival roots draw attention to people's dependence on the natural environment.
OriginsEdit
Sukkot shares similarities with older Canaanite new-year/harvest festivals, which included a seven-day celebration with sacrifices reminiscent of those in Template:Bibleverse and "dwellings of branches", as well as processions with branches. The earliest references in the Bible (Template:Bibleverse & Template:Bibleverse) make no mention of Sukkot, instead referring to it as "the festival of ingathering (hag ha'asif) at the end of the year, when you gather in the results of your work from the field," suggesting an agricultural origin. (The Hebrew term asif is also mentioned in the Gezer calendar as a two-month period in the autumn.)
The booths aspect of the festival may come from the shelters that were built in the fields by those involved in the harvesting process. Alternatively, it may come from the booths which pilgrims would stay in when they came in for the festivities at the cultic sanctuaries.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="encyclopedia.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Rubenstein1995">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Finally, Template:Bibleverse talks about the taking of various branches (and a fruit), this too is characteristic of ancient agricultural festivals, which frequently included processions with branches.<ref name="Rubenstein1995"/>Template:Rp
Later, the festival was historicized by symbolic connection with the desert sojourn of exodus (Template:Bibleverse).<ref name="encyclopedia.com"/> The narratives of the exodus trek do not describe the Israelites building booths,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Rubenstein1995"/>Template:Rp but they indicate that most of the trek was spent encamped at oases rather than traveling, and "sukkot" roofed with palm branches were a popular and convenient form of housing at such Sinai desert oases.<ref>Yoel Bin Nun, Zachor Veshamor p.168; Noga Hareuveni, Teva Venof Bemoreshet Yisrael, p.68-70</ref>
Laws and customsEdit
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Sukkot is a seven-day festival. Inside the Land of Israel, the first day is celebrated as a full festival with special prayer services and holiday meals. Outside the Land of Israel, the first two days are celebrated as full festivals. The seventh day of Sukkot is called Template:Transliteration ("Great Hoshana", referring to the tradition that worshippers in the synagogue walk around the perimeter of the sanctuary during morning services) and has a special observance of its own. The intermediate days are known as Chol HaMoed ("festival weekdays"). According to Halakha, some types of work are forbidden during Chol HaMoed.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In Israel many businesses are closed during this time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Throughout the week of Sukkot, meals are eaten in the sukkah. If a brit milah (circumcision ceremony) or Bar Mitzvah rises during Sukkot, the seudat mitzvah (obligatory festive meal) is served in the sukkah. Similarly, the father of a newborn boy greets guests to his Friday-night Shalom Zachar in the sukkah. Males sleep in the sukkah, provided the weather is tolerable. If it rains, the requirement of eating and sleeping in the sukkah is waived, except for eating there on the first night where every effort needs to be made to at least say kiddush (the sanctification prayer on wine) and eat an egg-sized piece of bread before going inside the house to finish the meal if the rain does not stop. Every day except the Sabbath, a blessing is recited over the Lulav and the Etrog.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Keeping of Sukkot is detailed in the Hebrew Bible (Template:Bibleverse, Template:Bibleverse and Template:Bibleverse); the Mishnah (Sukkah 1:1–5:8); the Tosefta (Sukkah 1:1–4:28); and the Jerusalem Talmud (Sukkah 1a–) and Babylonian Talmud (Sukkah 2a–56b).
SukkahEdit
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The sukkah walls can be constructed of any material that blocks wind (wood, canvas, aluminum siding, sheets). The walls can be free-standing or include the sides of a building or porch. There must be at least two and a partial wall.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The roof must be of organic material, known as s'chach, such as leafy tree overgrowth, schach mats or palm fronds – plant material that is no longer connected with the earth.<ref name="build">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is customary to decorate the interior of the sukkah with hanging decorations of the four species<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as with attractive artwork.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Clear left
PrayersEdit
Prayers during Sukkot include the reading of the Torah every day, reciting the Mussaf (additional) service after morning prayers, reciting Hallel, and adding special additions to the Amidah and Grace after Meals. In addition, the service includes rituals involving the Four Species. The lulav and etrog are not used on the Sabbath.<ref name="sackssiddur">Template:Cite book</ref>
On the Festival days, as well as the Sabbath of Chol Hamoed, some communities recite piyyutim.<ref>As they appear in Machzorim of the Ashkenazic and Italian rites.</ref>
HoshanotEdit
On each day of the festival, worshippers walk around the synagogue carrying the Four Species while reciting special prayers known as Hoshanot.<ref name="sackssiddur" />Template:Rp This takes place either between Hallel and the morning's Torah reading or at the end of Mussaf. This ceremony commemorates the willow ceremony at the Temple in Jerusalem, in which willow branches were piled beside the altar with worshippers parading around the altar reciting prayers.<ref name="chabad-hoshana">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Ushpizin and ushpizataEdit
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A custom originating with Lurianic Kabbalah is to recite the ushpizin prayer to "invite" one of seven "exalted guests" into the sukkah.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> These ushpizin (Template:Langx "guests", a loanword from Middle Persian špinza "lodging"), represent the "seven shepherds of Israel": Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph and David, each of whom correlates with one of the seven lower sefirot (this is why Joseph, associated with Yesod, follows Moses and Aaron, associated with Netzach and Hod respectively, even though he precedes them in the narrative). According to tradition, a different guest enters the sukkah each night, followed by the other six. Each ushpiz has a lesson to teach that parallels the spiritual focus of the day on which they visit based on the sefira associated with that character.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Some streams of Reconstructionist Judaism also recognize a set of seven female shepherds of Israel, called variously Template:Transliteration (using the Modern Hebrew feminine plural), or Template:Transliteration (using the Aramaic feminine plural). Several lists of seven have been proposed. The Ushpizata are sometimes coidentified with the seven prophetesses of Judaism: Sarah, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Hulda, and Esther.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Some lists seek to relate each female leader to one of the sefirot to parallel their male counterparts. One such list in the order they would be invoked each evening is Ruth, Sarah, Rebecca, Miriam, Deborah, Tamar, and Rachel.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Chol HaMoed intermediate daysEdit
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The second through seventh days of Sukkot (third through seventh days outside the Land of Israel) are called Chol HaMoed ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}} – Template:Abbr "festival weekdays"). These days are considered by halakha to be more than regular weekdays but less than festival days. In practice, this means that all activities that are needed for the holiday—such as buying and preparing food, cleaning the house in honor of the holiday, or traveling to visit other people's sukkot or on family outings—are permitted by Jewish law. Activities that will interfere with relaxation and enjoyment of the holiday—such as laundering, mending clothes, engaging in labor-intensive activities—are not permitted.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chayim, 530</ref><ref name="ou-moed">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Religious Jews often treat Chol HaMoed as a vacation period, eating nicer than usual meals in their sukkah, entertaining guests, visiting other families in their sukkot, and taking family outings. Many synagogues and Jewish centers also offer events and meals in their sukkot during this time to foster community and goodwill.<ref name="com-fest">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="ref-sukkot">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On the Shabbat which falls during the week of Sukkot (or in the event when the first day of Sukkot is on Shabbat in the Land of Israel), the Book of Ecclesiastes is read during morning synagogue services in Ashkenazic communities. (Diaspora Ashkenazic communities read it the second Shabbat {eighth day} when the first day of sukkot is on Shabbat.) This Book's emphasis on the ephemeralness of life ("Vanity of vanities, all is vanity...") echoes the theme of the sukkah, while its emphasis on death reflects the time of year in which Sukkot occurs (the "autumn" of life). The penultimate verse reinforces the message that adherence to God and His Torah is the only worthwhile pursuit. (Cf. Ecclesiastes 12:13,14.)<ref name="Kohelet">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Hakhel assemblyEdit
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In the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, all Israelite, and later Jewish men, women, and children on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the festival would gather in the Temple courtyard on the first day of Chol HaMoed Sukkot to hear the Jewish king read selections from the Torah. This ceremony, which was mandated in Deuteronomy 31:10–13, was held every seven years, in the year following the Shmita (Sabbatical) year. This ceremony was discontinued after the destruction of the Temple, but it has been revived in Israel since 1952 on a smaller scale.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Simchat Beit HaShoevah water-drawing celebrationEdit
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During the intermediate days of Sukkot, gatherings of music and dance, known as Simchat Beit HaShoeivah (Celebration of the Place of Water-Drawing), take place. This commemorates the celebration that accompanied the drawing of the water for the water-libation on the Altar, an offering unique to Sukkot, when water was carried up the Jerusalem pilgrim road from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple in Jerusalem.<ref name="shoeva">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Hoshana Rabbah (Great Supplication)Edit
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The seventh day of Sukkot is known as Hoshana Rabbah (Great Supplication). This day is marked by a special synagogue service in which seven circuits are made by worshippers holding their Four Species, reciting additional prayers. In addition, a bundle of five willow branches is beaten on the ground.<ref name="sackssiddur" />Template:Rp<ref name="chabad-hoshana" />
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat TorahEdit
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The holiday immediately following Sukkot is known as Shemini Atzeret (Template:Abbr "Eighth [Day] of Assembly"). Shemini Atzeret is usually viewed as a separate holiday.<ref>See Rosh Hashanah 4b for rare cases where it is viewed as part of the Sukkot holiday.</ref> In the Diaspora a second additional holiday, Simchat Torah ("Joy of the Torah"), is celebrated. In the Land of Israel, Simchat Torah is celebrated on Shemini Atzeret. On Shemini Atzeret people leave their sukkah and eat their meals inside the house. Outside the Land of Israel, many eat in the sukkah without making the blessing. The sukkah is not used on Simchat Torah.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Sukkot in the generations of IsraelEdit
Jeroboam's feastEdit
According to Template:Bibleverse, King Jeroboam, first king of the rebellious northern kingdom, instituted a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in imitation of the feast of Sukkot in Judah, and pilgrims went to Bethel instead of Jerusalem to make thanksgiving offerings. Jeroboam feared that continued pilgrimages from the northern kingdom to Jerusalem could lead to pressure for reunion with Judah:
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NehemiahEdit
HannukahEdit
In ChristianityEdit
Sukkot is celebrated by a number of Christian denominations that observe holidays from the Old Testament. These groups base this on the belief that Jesus celebrated Sukkot (see the Gospel of John 7). The holiday is celebrated according to its Hebrew calendar dates. The first mention of observing the holiday by Christian groups dates to the 17th century, among the sect of the Subbotniks in Russia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Academic viewsEdit
De Moor has suggested that there are links between Sukkot and the Ugaritic New Year festival, in particular the Ugaritic custom of erecting two rows of huts built of branches on the temple roof as temporary dwelling houses for their gods.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Some have pointed out that the original Thanksgiving holiday had many similarities with Sukkot in the Bible.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Feast of Wine
- List of harvest festivals
- Palm Sunday
- Sukkah City – a 2010 public art and architecture competition planned for New York City's Union Square Park
- Ushpizin, 2004 film
- Shkinta
NotesEdit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
External linksEdit
JewishEdit
GeneralEdit
- Thetorah.com - Sukkot
- Encyclopædia Britannica - Sukkot
- Jewish Encyclopedia - Sukkot
- Jewish Virtual Library – Jewish Holidays: Sukkot
- My Jewish Learning: Sukkot 101
By branch of JudaismEdit
- Reform Judaism: Sukkot Reform Judaism
- The Rabbinical Assembly: Sukkot Conservative Judaism
- Orthodox Union – Jewish Holidays: Sukkot Orthodox Judaism
- Chabad.org: Sukkot & Simchat Torah Hasidic Judaism
- Reconstructing Judaism: Sukkot Reconstructionist Judaism
- Sukkot – Society for Humanistic Judaism Humanistic Judaism
- The Karaite Jews of America: Sukkot Karaite Judaism
ChristianEdit
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