Texts for study and discussion. 1. “You shall celebrate the festival of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors of the field.” Exodus 23:16 2. “You shall take the fruit of the goodly tree, palm branch, foliage of the leafy tree, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before your God for seven days.” Leviticus 23:40 3. “You shall live in sukkahs seven days; all citizens of Yisrael shall live in huts; in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in huts when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I the Lord your God.” Leviticus 23:42,43 4. “Hang tapestries, nuts, almond, peaches, pomegranates, branches of grapes, vines, fine meal, wreaths of ears of corn” (on your Sukkah) Talmud Betzah 30b 5.
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