Episode 8: Feast Of Booths - Act One

We help Christians make sense of their roots so they can help the Jewish people make sense of Jesus.

On this episode of The Jewish Road Podcast:

Sukkot commemorates the 40 years Moses spent leading Jews out of slavery and into freedom. It takes place on the 15th day of the seventh month on the Hebrew Calendar, Tishri, or Sunday, September 19, 2021. From there it goes on for eight days.

Jewish tradition teaches that to remember our time in the desert, we should build a sukkah (booth) at home and decorate it with palm branches and leafy boughs of trees, and hang fruit from the makeshift ceiling, both of which are meant to remind us of Israel's harvest season.

We also eat all kinds of different foods inside the sukkah because they represent abundance and joyous celebration. The goal is not to do these things perfectly but rather to try to connect as much as possible with what life was like for our ancestors in the desert.

In addition to being a time for looking back on the past, Sukkot is also a time for looking forward. More on that in the next episode. For this episode of The Jewish Road Podcast, we will take a look at this Festivals of Booths from Act One, and trace the presence of God with His people throughout.

Key Passages: Exodus 12; Leviticus 3; Numbers 29; Jeremiah 2; Ezekiel 10-11

Intro and Outro music
by Joshua Royal. Interlude + engineering by Noah Davis.