JD: Why is there a celebration of what happened in that 40 years? Is it just to have the Lord remind you of how it was and how his provision took care of the Jews for those 40 years?
WM: In authentic Judaism based on the idea of the children of Israel living in booths or in huts is based first of all some sort of shelter. But of course there’s always a deeper message and the fact that in a certain sense what we know as the clouds of glory were also thought of as a companying the children of Israel throughout those 40 years and they were the heavenly booths. In Amman, which reminds us of that period both in a physical but also in a spiritual sense of our connection and our history, which is always combined in true Judaism.
During this holiday in the fall period and actually some
people actually sleep in the Sukkah. But they try to take their meals and this
reminds them that with the physicality there’s also the spirituality.
JD: The fact that God’s word, Zechariah 14 says that there will
be this Feast of Tabernacles on an annual bases and it seems to indicate there
even into the future and as long as we can see ahead in the future.
WM: If I’m not mistaken in Amman it’s mentioned that there are Sukkah booths or Tabernacle on Temple Mount when the Temple was rebuilt during
the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. Judaism is keeping memory alive. Redemption is
in memory. If you don’t have a memory, if you don’t recall what went on and why
you are doing certain things or not doing things you will not be able to precede
into your own or your national future. In fact, the two days of the New Year is
also called the days of memory.
Myself sitting out here on the porch with a not very strong structure
because the Jews that things on earth some times can be very weak, and very
fragile, and even dangerous and one must place ones trust in God above that he
will direct you in the right direction.
JD: Winkie Medad from his Sukkah in Shiloh Israel explaining the
Jewish Feasts of Tabernacles.
The Jews look to the past and their wonderings in the
wilderness for 40 years as they live for seven days in a Sukkot. However, at
the same time they look to the future and the kingdom period when the Messiah will
rule and reign from Jerusalem in the Temple, that’s Zechariah 6:12 & 13.
God made the promise of the kingdom to come and the celebration
of the Feast of Tabernacles is evidence that the Lord will keep his promise.
