by hadassah | Mar 14, 2017 | Presence in the Land
1039 Sukkot & Hoshanah Rabbah October 12, 1039 Temple Mount On Hosha ‘na rabba, or the eight day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jews gathered on the Mount of Olives. Solomon ben Judah wrote “from the morrow after Hosha ‘na rabba or the light day of the Feast...
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
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...
