Honoring the Feast of Sukkot (Tabernacles in Latin), the fall Feast of Harvest which comes late September to mid-October on our Gregorian solar calendar. It is ordered in Leviticus 23.
Leviticus 23:39. “However, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the fruit of the land, you will keep a feast to the LORD* seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath and the eighth day will be a Sabbath. 40. And on the first day you will take the boughs of goodly (Hadar, Etrog) trees, branches of date palm trees (Palm): and the boughs of thick trees (Myrtle) and willows of the brook (Willow) and you will rejoice before the LORD* your God seven days. 41. And you will keep it a feast to the LORD* seven days in the year. It will be a statute forever in your generations: you will celebrate it in the seventh month. 42. You will dwell in booths seven days. All that are Israelites born will dwell in booths, 43. so your generations will know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I AM the LORD* your God!”
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