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Solomon ben Judah: Sukkot and Hosha ‘na rabba

Mount of Olives c. 1899October 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 day of the Feast of Tabernacles”

Source: A History of Palestine (p. 705). Moshe Gil. 1992.

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