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Isaac ben Joseph ibn Chelo, 1334 CE: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

by hadassah | Oct 5, 2016 | Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Hosha ‘na Rabba and Shemini Atzeret

Isaac ben Joseph ibn Chelo, 1334 CE: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur   “The Jewish pilgrim Isaac ben Joseph ibn Chelo who visited Hebron, among other places in the Holy Land, wrote: ‘The Jews, who are very numerous here, do a considerable trade in cotton, which they...

Solomon ben Judah: Sukkot and Hosha ‘na rabba

by hadassah | Oct 5, 2016 | Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Hosha ‘na Rabba and Shemini Atzeret

Solomon ben Judah: Sukkot and Hosha ‘na rabba   October 12, 1039 On Hosha ‘na rabba, or the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e. Sukkot), Jews gathered on the Mount of Olives. Solomon ben Judah wrote “from the morrow after Hosha ‘na rabba or the eighth...

Byzantine Empress Eudocia, 438 CE: Sukkot

by hadassah | Oct 5, 2016 | Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Hosha ‘na Rabba and Shemini Atzeret

Byzantine Empress Eudocia, 438 CE: Sukkot   The Jewish people’s continued attachment to the Temple Mount is exemplified by an event that occurred during the reign of the Byzantine Empress Eudocia. When she went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 438, she was...
Mishnah, 300 CE: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Mishnah, 300 CE: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

by hadassah | Oct 5, 2016 | Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Hosha ‘na Rabba and Shemini Atzeret

Mishnah, 300 CE: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur   It is in the Mishnah, the oral law that preceded the Talmud compiled in Israel by Yehuda Hanasi, that we are first introduced to the main theme of the holiday, that of judgment: “On Rosh Hashanah all human beings...
Simon Bar Kokhba, 132-135 CE: Sukkot

Simon Bar Kokhba, 132-135 CE: Sukkot

by hadassah | Oct 5, 2016 | Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Hosha ‘na Rabba and Shemini Atzeret

Simon Bar Kokhba, 132-135 CE: Sukkot   Letters written by Simon Bar Kokhba, leader of the Jewish revolt against the Romans, were found in a cave near the Dead Sea in 1960. “Send wooden beams (lulavs) and citrons (Etrogs) for the celebration of Sukkot.” Request by...

Plutarch, 100 CE: Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret

by hadassah | Oct 5, 2016 | Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Hosha ‘na Rabba and Shemini Atzeret

Plutarch, 100 CE: Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Shemini Atzeret   Quaestiones Convivales, IV, 4:4 – 6:2, pp. 669 C – 672 B (6:2) At this, all did urge him (i.e. Moeragenes) and beg him to go on. “First”, he said, “the time and character of the greatest, most sacred...
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