The Feast
This is the specific name for the festival described in Leviticus, also known as the Feast of Booths
What is Sukkot (or The Feast of Tabernacles)?
On the first day, the Israelites were to take fruit from these, along with palm fronds, leafy branches, and poplars.
What are choice trees (or majestic trees)?
The primary purpose of living in booths is to remind future generations that God made the Israelites live in them when He brought them out of this land.
What is Egypt?
Leviticus 7 says that no manner of these things shall be eaten?
Fat, Ox, Sheep or Goat
A central part of Black culture, originating from the ingenuity of enslaved people using available ingredients, including fried chicken, collard greens, and cornbread.
Soul Food
According to verse 34, this is the month and the day the feast begins.
What is the fifteenth day of the seventh month?
For seven days, the Israelites were commanded to dwell in these self made rustic shelters
What are booths
The Feast of Tabernacles occurs at this time of the agricultural year, after all crops have been gathered.
What is the end of the harvest (or the fall)?
According to Leviticus 11, These kind were ok to be eaten
What are locusts, beetle and grasshopper?
A pan-African holiday celebrating family, community, and culture through seven principles
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Kwanzaa
The Feast of Tabernacles lasts for this many days
What is seven days?
This is the specific command regarding work on the first day of the feast.
What is "do no regular work"?
The palm branches, leafy branches, and fruit symbolize this aspect of God's blessing.
What is the harvest/provision?
These were forbidden on the altar
Leaven and Honey
Commemorates the end of slavery, emphasizing freedom, identity, and empowerment.
Juneteenth
On the first and eighth days of this festival, the Israelites were instructed to hold this type of gathering.
What is a sacred assembly (or holy convocation)?
These individuals, along with the Israelite citizens, were required to dwell in booths.
Who are "those born in Israel" (or "the native-born")?
The entire festival is designed to be this kind of time
What is a time of joy
It is noted in Leviticus 2 that every oblation of meat must be seasoned with this.
Salt
Crucial rituals often featuringline dancing, cookouts, and bright, matching t-shirts, tracing back to post-emancipation efforts to reconnect families.
Family Reunions
Israel was commad to participate in these 3 major feasts.
The feast of Passover, The feast of Pentecost and The feast of Tabernacles
In addition to the daily sacrifices, this was to be offered to the Lord every day of the festival.
What is an offering made by fire?
By living in temporary shelters, the Israelites were meant to acknowledge their continued dependence on this.
What is God's protection/provision
Two loaves of bread made with yeast (leaven) and flour from their homes along with 7 one-year-old lambs were offered how many days after the firstfruits?
50 days
Eating black-eyed peas, collard greens, and cornbread to ensure luck, wealth, and prosperity in the coming year.
New Year’s Traditions