This year, according to the lunar (moon) calendar, there is a full moon on October 1, 2020. So, what’s the big deal? Well, God operates on a lunar calendar! The Jewish people follow this same moon cycle. Here’s my point : following this full moon, the Jewish people will be celebrating Sukkot or “The Festival of Booths” or the "Festival of Tabernacles." Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish holiday that begins this Friday after sundown. Sukkot celebrates the gathering of the harvest and commemorates the miraculous protection God provided for the children of Israel when they left Egypt. Sukkot is the only festival associated with an explicit commandment to rejoice. God commanded them to celebrate this festival and gave the instructions to Moses on how it is to be observed. In Leviticus 23:33-34 and 42-43 , it says, “The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days…Live i...
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