The Feast of Booths, also known as Sukkot, is the last of the Fall Feasts in the biblical calendar. It lasts seven days, starting on the evening of Monday, October 6, 2025, and ending on Monday, October 13.
Leviticus 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
Jewish people in Israel and around the world began the week-long Sukkot festival.
Sukkot is a Torah-commanded Jewish holiday celebrated for seven days, starting on the 15th day of the month of Tishri.
Sukkot commemorates the 40 years the Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land after escaping slavery in Egypt.
The word “Sukkot” means “booths” and refers to the temporary dwellings that Jewish people live in during this holiday in memory of the period of wandering.
Christians are not obligated to practice Sukkot, but can if they so desire.
No work is permitted to the Jewish people on the first and second days of the holiday, in honor of the holiday’s historical significance.
The Jewish people reside in temporary shelters, reflecting their ancestors’ experiences in the wilderness. Today, these are temporary huts built for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot.
The temporary shelter is referred to as a sukkah. A sukkah must have at least two and a half walls covered with a material that will not blow away in the wind. It is common practice to decorate the sukkah.
In the northeastern United States, Jews commonly hang dried squash and corn in the sukkah to decorate it because these vegetables are readily available at that time for the American holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Sukkot is prominently referred to as the Season of Our Rejoicing. It is the only feast of the Lord where God’s people are explicitly commanded to rejoice three times. The Hebrew word for rejoice is (sameakh), highlighting the significance of this joyous celebration.
Deuteronomy 16:14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
Deuteronomy 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
A key theme of Sukkot is that we are “just passing through this life.” The feast recalls Israel’s time in the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land. Living in temporary booths reminds us that life is fleeting and our physical bodies are also temporary, just like the Sukkot.
The Bible refers to them as “earthen vessels.”
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
The command to dwell in temporary booths.
Leviticus 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
Leviticus 23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
The fragile nature of life on Earth is emphasized during this feast by a scroll reading. It teaches us about the pointlessness of pursuing pleasure, contrasting it with the wisdom of fearing God and living for Him.
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
The roof of a sukkah is covered with branches, allowing stars to be seen at night as a reminder of the One who never sleeps. Sukkot is regarded as the ultimate Jewish camping experience.
The temporary roofs of many sukkot are covered with palm branches. Jewish people not only eat and sleep under these branches during Sukkot, but they also wave them before the Lord.
Leviticus 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
Palm branches are waved in processions held within synagogues and sukkahs. This tradition occurs seven times on the last, or seventh, day of Sukkot.
Psalm 118:25 Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
Palms are also waved as symbols of victory.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.
Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Romans 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans 11:16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Romans 11:20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
Romans 20:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
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