I love this time of year, the leaves letting go, the tempertures dropping and the Fall Festivals. Not Halloween or Harvest Festivals, but the High Holy Days, Rosh HaShana. Yom Kippur and now Sukkot! We have gone from Repentance and the sounding blasts of the Shofar, to the Fasting hunger of redemption and now the favor of the Lord brings about the Season of rejoicing!

Here in Northern California as we begin to put up our sukkah we are blessed to have Myrtle brandches ( Bay tree) and palm leaves to lay across the roof which will be fragrant and freshly cut. Seven Days and nights of peeking through the branches and getting a glimpse of what God has created and wondering aloud at what is yet to come. It is here out in the open exposed to the elements that we recall how dependant we are on the Lord our Provider. His people and brought them across on dry land. Theis is a shaky shelter, a temporary shelter for just as they were heading to a better place a land flowing with milk and honey, so is this just a temporary dwelling place a shelter that will not stand forever.

Verses for Sukkot:

Lev. 23:33-36,39-43

Deut 28:1-2,15, Lev 26:14-39

Numbers 29:12-38

Deut.16:13-15

Psalm 42, 81

Ezra 3:1-4, Neh. 8:14-15

Joel 2:28, Isaiah 12: 3, Isaiah 44:3, Eze. 36:24-27

John 7:37-39

John 14:17, 1 Cor. 12:13

Psalms 120-134

Some of my favorite sites

http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/sukkot/sukkot.htm

http://www.chadiscrafts.com/fun/ediblesukkah.html

http://www.biblicalholidays.com/tabernacles.htm

http://www.aish.com/holidays/sukkot/default.asp

http://joi.org/celebrate/sukkot/thanks.shtml

http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/yomtov/sukkot/skpages.htm

Chag sameach!!!