Sukkot Celebrations in Israel | Feast of Tabernacles | NirisEye | High Holydays

Sukkot Celebrations in Israel || Feast of Tabernacles Celebrations || NirisEye || High Holydays

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In this video, I share the celebrations of Sukkot (Festival of Tabernacles / Festival of Booths) in Israel.
Sukkot is a week-long Jewish holiday that comes five days after Yom Kippur(Day of Atonement).
Sukkot is celebrated by gathering of harvest and commemorates the miraculous protection God provided for the children of Israel during their sojourn from Egypt to Promised Land.

Jews celebrate Sukkot by dwelling in a foliage-covered booth (known as a sukkah) and by taking together the “Four Kinds” (arba minim), four special species of vegetation.
For seven days and nights, Jews eat all their meals in the sukkah and regard sukkah as their home. Located under the open sky, the sukkah is made up of at least three walls and a roof of unprocessed natural vegetation—often bamboo (sometimes in the form of convenient bamboo rolls), pine boughs or palm branches.
Every day of Sukkot, Jews say Hallel, the psalms of praise from Psalms (113-118) as part of the morning prayer service. Every day besides Shabbat, Jews do so clutching the Four Kinds, waving them in all directions at certain key points in the service outlined in the siddur (prayerbook).

Before eating in the sukkah, Jews say the following blessing:
"Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-he-nu Me-lech ha-olam a-sher ki-de-sha-nu be-mitz-vo-tav ve-tzi-va-nu le-shev ba-sukkah."
(Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to dwell in the sukkah.")
Another Sukkot observance is taking of Four Kinds: an etrog (citron), a lulav (palm frond), three hadassim (myrtle twigs) and two aravot (willow twigs). Before the holiday, the hadassim and aravot are bound to the lulav.
On each day of the festival (except Shabbat), Jews hold the lulav in their right hand and say: "Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-he-nu Me-lech ha-olam a-sher ki-de-sha-nu be-mitz-vo-tav ve-tzi-va-nu al netilat lulav" which means "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us regarding taking the lulav."
Then pick up the etrog in their left hand.
On the first day of Sukkot (or the first time on Sukkot, Jews get to do this), add say this blessing: "Ba-ruch A-tah Ado-nai E-lo-he-nu Me-lech ha-olam she-heche-ya-nu ve-ki-yi-ma-nu ve-higi-a-nu liz-man ha-zeh" meaning, "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has granted us life, sustained us and enabled us to reach this occasion."

Bring the lulav and etrog together in their hands and wave them gently in all six directions: right, left, forward, up, down and backward.
The sages of the Midrash tell that the Four Kinds represent the various personalities that comprise the community of Israel, whose intrinsic unity they emphasize on Sukkot.


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