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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
