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Hello! We are coming to another feast of Sukkot
from the year 5774
on the occasion of this feast,
and lasts eight days,
the Torah recommends us two commandments,
to
set up a hut of foliage in our homes
and rejoice.
The feast of Sukkot is mentioned in the Parshat related to it
and corresponding
to chapter 22
of Leviticus,
verse 26
to chapter 23
verse 44,
at this text,
the feasts of Israel are scheduled to start at the Sabbath,
the seventh day,
as a day of holy convocation,
remembering
on saturday or any other day
mentioned in the Torah as sacred,
is not just a day to remember,
or to be kept and,
lest we work on this day,
but one day , we have to be together,
to attend,
the convening,
community to celebrate this particular day together,
after the shabbat,
starts the reporting
the feast of Passover
later, the last of Shavuot, the Yom Teruah
as we call Rosh Hashanah,
Yom Kippur and finally the feast of Sukkot,
on the other hand,
which corresponds,
in two celebration in one.
The first celebration,
the feast of Sukkot,
as we call,
starts on the 15th,
of Tshirei,
what the Bible calls the seventh month, but which corresponds to the first month,
of the civil
calendar and goes
to
22.
On 22 of this month,
what the Torah says about the last day of Sukkot
but also called the eighth Great Assembly In hebrew Shemini Atzeret
Is the day that at the same time, concludes the celebration of Sukkot,
and on the other hand,
celebrates the beginning of
a new reading, of a new cycle,
of Torah reading,
in Israel,
this is how we celebrate,
eight days of celebration.
One
later rabbinic legislation,
determined as a custom,
that in all communities around the world,
except the Yom Kippur,
the feasts of Israel should be celebrated one day more,
It means
that, the first and second day of Passover,
the last,
and the next day of Passover, and so on.
We, Israelite Congregation of the New Covenant, we did not observe
the second,
festival day
of these dates,
because this was, a specific rabbinic commandment,
for a time in the Jewish history,when it had a difficulty in knowing
the correct date that which the feasts occurred,
thats why
was celebrated one day more,
just to avoid the risk
In stop celebranting it,
as nowadays we have Jewish calendars that help us, or
assist us in the celebration of these feasts, we understand that there is no more
necessary to celebrate
another day,
of these festivities, because for us
these days are celebrated
with great rigor,
we really abstain from work,
In days which the Torah forbids us,
and if,
we need to leave work
one more day(extra), it makes our relationship
with our works
very difficult.
Therefore,
we turn to the simplicity of what the Torah teaches us about the
feasts,
morally, the feast of
Sukkot
points,
to the necessity of remind us about God's providence
the sukka
is a fragile structure,
made at home covered with foliage,
whose has three sides,
the backgroung
with two sides,
should be
covered, in other words, must be made
with a wall,
that may be made of canvas, foliage or wood
as well.
The sukka
represents our lives,
the transience of life,
The sukka,
is subject to the conditions or situations
of day by day,
is subjected to rain, the sun,
the wind,
the bad weather
in the same way that our lives are subject to
all sorts of mishap
which can
appear
at any time.
So, the feast of Sukkot
teaches us to trust in God.
During the 40 years in which our people wandered in the desert,
they needed,
Trust in God in each step,
the water was miraculously provided,
the food was provided in a miraculous way,
and even when meat was requested.
What is more pleasurable in life
was also,
given to the Jewish people
on time.
what it means?
means that,
every day,
life presents us with miracles,
miracles that we are not always ready to identify or recognize,
things have became easy,
which ceased to fall from the sky , and began to sprout from the ground,
and became common,
but,
the miracle of the bread, of land rise,
the miracle of
waking every day,
the miracle of our bodies work with health,
the miracle of our life be maintained,
these miracles are just in passing
unnoticed,
therefore, once a year
God tells us to
leave the comfort of our homes,
and inhabited
in a hut.
Our sages interpret this commandment, that mitzavah
can be
fulfilled,
only making one meal
inside or under the sukka
everyday,
but, there are those, who prefer to sleep inside,
that is a good attitude,
thus,
the feast of Sukkot
points,
to the necessity of
trust in God.
Never consider
that our life's situations
are permanent,
live one day after the other,
always believing that we are here until now (alive),
and we are well,
because G-d has kept us until here
if tomorrow,
something happen,
is necessary that we look up to
the ceiling of the sukka of our lives,
is through the foliage of the fragility of our existence,
we are able to look at the stars,
and remember
the covenant,
that our God made
with our father Abraham,
because of this,
we relied on the Eternal
existence,
of the Jewish people
to finish this video,
in the book of the prophet Zachariah that, corresponds the Haftarah
of the feast of Sukkot,
which is in Chapter 14
from verse 1,
speaks of the Millennium,
The messianic era,
the Malchut
Hashamayim,
At that time the Machiach will reign,
and during that time,
all nations,
those who remained,
and those who were
against the people of Israel, will have to go,
from year to year,
to Jerusalem,
to worship the King,
and to celebrate,
the feast of Sukkot, or
Tabernacles.
It teaches us,
the reward of our enemies,
is not reserved for the present time,
but for the judgment,
which is in the hand of
the sole judge.
Hopefully soon,
the Sukka Elohim,
the tabernacle of God
can be
in our midst.
The presence of God in our midst,
that is foreshadowed in chapter 21 of
Revelation,
when says:
that the New Jerusalem will be in our midst,
and it will be,
the tabernacle of God among men.
That it can happen
speedily
in our days,
in the days of our children,
and Machiach can already
be a reality in our midst.
Chag Sameach,
and a good year
of
5774.