Tishrei 11 – Go out into the hill country and bring back branches…

September 26, 2023

Tishrei 11, 5784; from sunset September 25, 2023, to sunset September 26, 2023

This is an image of a portion of the wall rebuilt by Nehemiah and company.

After Ezra read the words of the Torah to the people on the first day of the seventh month, they learned that they were to construct temporary booths and dwell in them during the Feast of Tabernacles. The day after Yom Kippur is the traditional date to begin building your sukkah (booth).

They found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during the festival of the seventh month and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: “Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make temporary shelters”– as it is written.

So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim. – Nehemiah 8:14-16 (NIV)

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