Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Sukkot / Feast of Booths - this week’s Torah reading


Prophecy 75, 102, 148;
Leviticus 22:26–23:44; Numbers 29:12-16;
Zechariah 14:1-21;
Luke 2:1–20;



Leviticus 22:26–23:44;

26 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
27 When an ox, or lamb, or goat is born, and when it has been seven days under its mother, then from the eighth day and onward it is acceptable for an offering, a fire offering to YAHUVEH;
28 but an ox or sheep, it and its young one, you shall not slaughter in one day.
29 And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to YAHUVEH, you shall sacrifice it of your free will;
30 it shall be eaten on that day; you shall not leave any of it until morning; I am YAHUVEH.
31 And you shall keep MY commandments and shall do them; I am YAHUVEH.
32 And you shall not profane My holy name, and I shall be counted holy among the sons of Israel1; I am YAHUVEH, who is sanctifying you, 33 who is bringing you up out of the land of Egypt, to become your Elohim; I am YAHUVEH.

*~ Chapter 23 ~*


1 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, The set feasts of YAHUVEH which you shall proclaim as holy gatherings, shall be these: These are My appointed feasts:
3 Work is to be done six days, and on the seventh day shall be a Sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work; it is a Sabbath to YAHUVEH in all your dwellings.
4 These are appointed times of YAHUVEH, holy gatherings which you shall proclaim in their appointed seasons2:
5 In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings is the Passover to YAHUVEH.
6 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Feast of Unleavened to YAHUVEH; you shall eat unleavened things seven days.
7 On the first day you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no laborious work;
8 and you shall bring near a fire offering to YAHUVEH seven days; and the seventh day shall be a holy gathering; you shall do no laborious work.
9 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
10 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you come in to the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the Omer, of the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest,
11 then he shall wave the Omer before YAHUVEH for your acceptance4; on the morrow of the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
12 And you shall prepare a lamb in the day you wave the Omer, one without blemish, a son of a year, for a burnt offering to YAHUVEH.
13 And its grain offering1 shall be two tenths part of flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to YAHUVEH, a sweet fragrance; and its drink offering, a fourth of a hin of wine.
14 And you shall not eat bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh ears, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your Elohim; it is a never ending statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
15 And you shall number to you from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring in the omer of the wave offering; they shall be seven complete Sabbaths;
16 to the next day after the seventh Sabbath, you shall number fifty days; and you shall bring near a new food offering to YAHUVEH;
17 you shall bring in bread out of your dwellings for a wave offering, two loaves; they shall be of two tenth ephah of flour; they shall be baked with leaven; first-fruits to YAHUVEH
18 And besides the bread, you shall offer seven lambs, without blemish, sons of a year, and one bull, a son of the herd, and two rams; they are a burnt offering to YAHUVEH, with their food offering and their drink offerings, a fire offering of soothing fragrance to YAHUVEH.
19 And you shall offer one he-goat for a sin offering, and two lambs, sons of a year, for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them, besides the bread of the first-fruits, a wave offering before YAHUVEH, besides the two lambs; they are holy to YAHUVEH for the priest.
21 And you shall make a proclamation on this same day; it is a holy gathering to you. You shall do no laborious work of service. It is a never ending statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not completely reap the corner of your field, nor shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor, and for the alien: I am YAHUVEH your Elohim. (Lev 19:9-10)
23 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
24 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, a Holy Day Sabbath shall be to you, a memorial acclamation of the resounding of trumpets, a holy gathering.
25 You shall do no laborious work and you shall bring a fire offering to YAHUVEH.
26 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses saying,
27 Also, on the tenth of this seventh month shall be a day of atonement; there shall be a holy gathering, and you shall humble and weaken your bodies and shall bring a fire offering to YAHUVEH. (Is 58:3,5)
28 And you shall do no work in this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to atone for you before YAHUVEH your Elohim.
29 For any person who is not humbled in this same day shall be cut off from his people.
30 And any person who does any work in this same day, I shall even cut off that person from the midst of his people.
31 You shall do no work; it is a never ending statute throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.
32 It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall humble your souls in the ninth of the month at evening; from evening until evening you shall keep1 your Sabbath2.
33 And YAHUVEH spoke to Moses, saying,
34 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be a Feast of Booths, seven days to YAHUVEH.
35 On the first day shall be a holy gathering; you shall do no laborious work.
36 Seven days you shall bring a fire offering to YAHUVEH; on the eighth day you shall have a holy gathering; and you shall bring the fire offering to YAHUVEH; it is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work of service.
37 These are the set feasts of YAHUVEH which you shall proclaim, holy gatherings, to bring a fire offering to YAHUVEH, a burnt offering, and a food offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, the thing of a day on its own day;
38 besides the Sabbaths of YAHUVEH, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you shall give to YAHUVEH.
39 Also, in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather the increase of the land4, you shall keep the feast of YAHUVEH seven days; on the first day a Holy Day Sabbath, and on the eighth day a Holy Day Sabbath5. (Ex 23:16)
40 And you shall take to yourselves on the first day the fruit of majestic trees6, palm branches, and boughs of thick oak trees, and willows of the valley,7 and shall rejoice before YAHUVEH your Elohim seven days.
41 And you shall celebrate it a feast to YAHUVEH, seven days in a year, a never ending statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month you shall keep it.
42 You shall sit in Sookkuhs for seven days; all who are native in Israel shall sit down in Sookkuhs,
43 so that your generations shall know that I caused the sons of Israel to live in Sookkuhs, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am YAHUVEH your Elohim.
44 And Moses declared the appointed feasts of YAHUVEH to the sons of Israel.

Numbers 29:12-16


12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service; and you shall celebrate a feast to YAHWEH seven days.
13 And you shall offer a burnt offering, a fire offering, a soothing fragrance to YAHWEH: thirteen bulls, sons of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of a year; they shall be without blemish;
14 and their food offerings, flour mixed with oil, three tenths parts to the one bull, for the thirteen bulls; two tenths parts to each of the two rams;
15 and one tenth part to each of the fourteen lambs;
16 and one kid of the goats, a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its food offering and its drink offering.