Sukkot
Sukkot
“Only after renewing our acceptance of God's Kingship and atoning… can we celebrate the long, joyous Festival of the seventh month with a multitude of sacrifices. Therefore, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, we celebrate our closeness to God in a spirit of joyfulness, after the Days of Judgment and preparation in which we were in a spirit of dread and fear.”
- Dr. Noah Hacham, Preparation for Sukkot
“During Sukkot we start by dwelling under cover of the clouds of glory in God's dwelling place and we end the Festival on Shmini Atzeret by returning to our permanent homes together with God and His Torah.”
- Rabbi Meir Spiegelman, The Seventy Bulls of Sukkot
“From the viewpoint of Jewish history, Tishrei represents the end of the Exodus, and yet from the viewpoint of the universe, it represents the beginning.”
- Rabbi Yaakov Nagen (Genack), An End that is also a Beginning
“The rabbis say, 'for six days you shall work' is also a mitzvah. The active holiness of 'time-in' is given expression during the holiday cycle: busy, active holidays, filled with sacrifices, rituals, obligations, and symbols. During these holidays, we take everything we produce, and we declare that these, too, are holy.”
- Avidan Freedman, Holy Time
Learn more about Sukkot on HaTanakh.com:
The Dual Significance of Sukkot - Prof. Jonathan Grossman | Gog and Magog - Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein | Structure and Significance of the Festivals Parasha - Rabbi Elchanan Samet | Educational Perspectives in the Study of Kohelet - Rabbi David Nativ | The Teshuva Revolution - Rabbi Tzvi Sinensky | The Hidden Meaning of Kohelet - Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky | The Symbolism of Sukkot - Rabbi Ezra Bick | “May the Merciful One Rebuild for Us the Fallen Sukka of David” - Rabbi Yehuda Amital | The Sukkot Celebrated By Those Who Returned To Zion From The Babylonian Exile - Rabbi Yaakov Medan | Why does Mitzvah Sukkot Apply to Everyone? - Rabbi David Silverberg | Sukkot and the Attribute of Justice - Rabbi Amnon Bazak | The Place of Sukkot in the Cycle of Festivals - Rabbi Yehuda Shaviv | The Symbolism of the Four Species - Rabbi Meir Shpiegelman