Live in temporary shelters for seven days: all native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters. The temporary shelters — the sukkot, the booths — that give the festival its name are the material practice that embodies the festival's theological memory. All native-born Israelites — not only the poor, not only the rural, but all — live in temporary shelters for seven days. The universal practice of living in the wilderness-like shelters creates the community-wide experience of temporary dwelling. The community that lives in booths remembers that it once lived in tents — and that God provided for them in the wilderness.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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