Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles): The Festival for Both Jew and Gentile

October 7, 2025 Sukkot is one of three pilgrimage festivals called Shelosh Regalim (three pilgrimages) in which the Jewish People were to go up to the Temple in Jerusalem together as a nation. Today, many Christians from the nations come every year to Jerusalem to celebrate Sukkot together with Israel in a beautiful foreshadowing of what will take place after the Lord returns and establishes His Messianic reign on earth.

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The Fast of Tisha B’Av and the Coming of Adonai Tzidkenu

July 30, 2025 Tisha B’Av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar (Av 9). It is a day of fasting on which we mourn the destruction of the First and Second Temples that stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

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The Three Weeks of Affliction: Waiting for the Messiah

July 17, 2024 The Three Weeks inspire great thought about the individual and national shortcomings that led, and have led, Adonai to punish the nation.

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Hoshana Rabbah: The Wells of Salvation

October 6, 2023 Today is Hoshana Rabbah (Great Salvation). The eight-day festival of Sukkot is almost finished, and since it is a holiday of rejoicing, it closes with three final festive days: Hoshana Rabbah, Shemini Atzeret (Eight Day of Assembly) and Simchat Torah (Joy of the Torah). Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot, began last night and, as is customary, many stayed up all night reading the entire book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Psalms.

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Parasha Sukkot: The Sheltering Presence of God and the War of Gog/Magog

October 9, 2020 During the weeklong festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles), the regular Parasha (Torah portion) for Shabbat is suspended, and a special Parasha pertaining to the holiday is read in synagogues around the …

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Parasha Sukkot: The Sheltering Presence of God and the War of Gog/Magog

October 14, 2019 This special Shabbat Sukkot helps to prepare us for the sheltering presence of God as the War of God and Magog looms in the horizon.

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Sukkot and the Coming of Messiah

September 29, 2015 Yesterday, Sukkot began with the fourth Blood Moon (full lunar eclipse) of the Blood Moon Tetrad, four consecutive lunar eclipses that coincided with Passover and Sukkot in 2014 and 2015.

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Blood Moon Rises on the First Night of Sukkot

September 27, 2015 The weeklong Festival of Sukkot (Feast of Booths or Tabernacles) has finally arrived and begins tonight as the sun sets and the Blood Moon rises. Tonight, here in Israel and around the world, the Jewish People will be spending time in the sukkot (plural of sukkah) that they built when Yom Kippur ended just days ago.

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Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot: Armageddon and the Protective Covering of God

October 5, 2012 Shabbat Chol Hamoed Sukkot  Exodus 33:12-34:26; Ezekiel 38:18-39:16; Book of Ecclesiastes; Revelation 7:1-10 “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been …

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Crowds Gather for the Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing)

October 3, 2012 Today, on the third day of the seven-day holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), multitudes gathered this morning at the Western (Wailing) Wall for the Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing) to receive the traditional blessing from thousands of Kohanim, Jewish men who are from the priestly lineage of Aaron (Moses’ brother).

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