This post is adapted from Rabbi Meyer's Rosh HaShanah 5779 morning sermon.
For our Israelite ancestors, the most important festival of the year was Sukkot, and the most widely practiced ritual was the bringing of the first fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem
Every year, Jews celebrate the festival of Sukkot to mark the fall harvest season and commemorate the conclusion of the Israelites’ forty-year journey through the desert after leaving Egypt.
Sukkot, the celebration of bounty and harvest, is the plural of the word sukkah.
The Jewish Holiday season is in full swing.
“All citizens of Israel shall live in booths, in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt” (Leviticus 23:42).
I enjoyed many trips to Nats Park this summer to watch the Washington Nationals play.
On Sukkot, we celebrate the harvest. The Zohar teaches that “when the people of Israel leave their homes and enter the sukkah for the sake of God’s name, they merit to welcome the Divine Presence there, and all the seven shepherds descend from Gan Eden and
