When is Sukkot and what happen during the celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles?
After Rosh Hashanah, at the completion of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement there is the Feast of Tabernacles. This is a time in Hebrew, called a season of great joy. It’s a feast to celebrate the fact that God has given us a new beginning. It’s recognizing the fact that we have survived another year. It’s celebrating that while we got a great harvest last year, that a greater harvest is coming during the next year. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles and the festival of joy is what America originally celebrated as Thanksgiving. If you go back and study your history, the Pilgrims first had Thanksgiving during the Jewish celebration of Sukkot. The rabbis teach that the Pilgrims were religions people. They came out of Europe, which is symbolic of Israel coming out of Egypt. When Israel came out of Egypt, the Red Sea parted. The Atlantic Ocean, to these Pilgrims, was the Red Sea. When they got to American, it was their promised land. And so, the reason why this nation was founded is so there
