A prayer recited during this holiday repeats four variants of the phrase “Please save, for your sake... please save.” This is the only biblical festival in which god instructs participants to “rejoice,” as contained in Leviticus 23:40. A water-drawing ceremony was performed during the intermediate days of this holiday in the Temple of Jerusalem. Date, myrtle, willow, and citron branches form the “four species” of plants used in this harvest festival. For 10 points, give this Jewish holiday whose name literally translates as “festival of tents.”
A prayer recited during this holiday repeats four variants of the phrase “Please save, for your sake... please save.” This is the only biblical festival in which god instructs participants to “rejoice,” as contained in Leviticus 23:40. A water-drawing ceremony was performed during the intermediate days of this holiday in the Temple of Jerusalem. Date, myrtle, willow, and citron branches form the “four species” of plants used in this harvest festival. For 10 points, give this Jewish holiday whose name literally translates as “festival of tents.”
A prayer recited during this holiday repeats four variants of the phrase “Please save, for your sake... please save.