Philo’s Explanation of Sukkot
The last of the annual feasts, called Tabernacles, recurs at the autumn equinox. From this we may draw two morals. The first is, that we should honour equality and hate inequality, for the former is the source and fountain of justice, the latter of injustice. The former is akin to open sunlight, the latter to darkness. The second moral is, that…
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Prescriptions and Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Jewish Antiquities 3.244–245
Now on the fifteenth day of the same month, when the season changes to winter, he [Moses] enjoins each household to pitch tents, in apprehension of the cold and for protection at that time of year…
Mass Exodus for the Festival
The Jewish War 2.515, 517
From Antipatris Cestius advanced to Lydda, and found the city empty, as the whole population had gone up to Jerusalem for the feast of Tabernacles. [ . . . ] Seeing the war now coming close to the…
Simeon bar Kosiba’s Order for the Four Species
P. Yadin 57
Shimeon to Yehudah bar Menashe to Qiryath ‘Arab(v)aya I have sent you two donkeys that you shall send with them two men to Yehonathan bar Be‘ayan and to Masabala in order that they shall pack and send…
The Mishnah on the Water Libation
m. Sukkah 4:9
Rabbi Judah says: With a log [of water] he would pour the water libation all eight days [of the festival]. And they would say to the one pouring the libation, “Raise high your hand!” For once, a…
The Tosefta on the Water Libation
t. Sukkah 3:16
From when do they pour it [the water libation] out? Along with the [offering of] the limbs of the tamid sacrifice. For it already happened that the Boethusian had poured [the libation] on his feet…
The Mishnah on Dwelling in Booths
m. Sukkah 1–2 (selections)
1:1. A sukkah that is higher than twenty cubits is invalid. R. Judah deems it valid. And one that is not [at least] ten cubits high, or does not have three sides, or [whose interior] is more in the…