Erev Sukkot Service

Sukkot (booths) is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles. Leviticus 23:33-44 shows that it was a harvest holiday to bring in the latter harvest. It was a time for Israelites to remember that G-d dwellt with them during the 40-year wilderness period while living in temporary booths. We celebrate Sukkot by building, decorating, and dwelling (to varying degrees) in a sukkah (shelter) in our yards and or synagogues for a week. We wave in all four directions, the “Four Species,” made up of the lulav (palm branch), the etrog (citrus fruit from Israel), the hadas (myrtle), and the arava (willow), focusing on the fact that G-d is omnipresent. It was a time of joy in the hope for winter rains to come and was prophetically demonstrating the joy that would come when the living waters of the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) would be poured out on all Israel. As Messianic Jews, we are anticipating with great joy the day when the Kingdom of G-d will come to the redeemed earth and G-d will dwell with His people in all His glory!

*Service hours are subject to change