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Appointments With God Tabernacles

Lessons from the four species and sukkah in our relationships with God

Daniel reflects on his hasty building of a sukkah for the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) amid sickness in his family. He learned from the four species symbols of Sukkot and the design of the sukkah about God’s dealing with him via his heart, soul, mind, strength and spirit.

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Appointments With God Tabernacles

Sukkot 2009 day 5 — Meaning behind the symbols of the fruit and trees

During the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths (Sukkot in Hebrew), a long-standing ceremony has been the waving of a bundle of plants and a citrus fruit toward the four points of the compass. There is an important message for all times in what those plants symbolize.