Feast of Tabernacles

The Feast of Tabernacles, also called "Feast of Booths" Or "Season of our Happiness" is one of three Jewish holidays, all collectively called "Shalosh Regalim" (Three Pilgrims Festaval).

Every year in Ancient Times (and some even now) the Jewish people would be required to travel to Jerusalem to celebrate one of the three feasts: Passover (Pesach), Pentecost (Shavuot), and Tabernacles (Sukkot).

"Tabernacles" is the festival that reminds us that God "dwells" among us, as He did the Israelites in the desert for 40 years in the Ark of the Covenant.

Tabernacle booths, called "Sukkots/succoth" are constructed to create a frame, topped with palm branches and material. Fruit was often hung from the beams of the sukkots to symbolism the bounty of God's blessing. Often with this festival is an abundance of music and dancing, and to each step in dance is a meaning.

The Jewish families would then sleep underneath these 'sukkots' for the feast time, taking the time to gaze up at the stars at night, as the thatched roof was thin enough to see through.

These 'temporary' dwellings are set to remind that we are but temporary here on this earth.

This year, the Feast began on the 27th of Septemember and will last until sunset on the 3rd of October.

One thing of importance to be noted with this Feast is the "Lulav" consisting of a date palm frond, the bough of a myrtle tree, and willow branch— these three are actually bound together and collectively referred to as the lulav—and the etrog (a citron, a lemon-like citrus fruit). When prayed with the blessing, these were to be symbolic in request for plentiful rainful and harvest in the following year.

This is most certainly not all there is too Tabernacles, but a general knowledge of the going-ons.


While we may not be Israelies, there is importance in remembering that God does dwell among His people, and that it is indeed a thing to rejoice and be glad about!

I know I am!