The Feat of the Tabernacles
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 7:22 & 27
What was forbidden to be eaten?
Blood and fat
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 people were commanded to rejoice before the Lord in these temporary shelters to remember this event.
What is living in booths (after leaving Egypt)?
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)?
Clean animals (may be eaten) Leviticus 11:22
What are locusts and crickets?
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 seven-day period is a time for this emotion, which is to be shared with families, servants, and the needy.
What is Rejoicing?
This item was required for all grain offerings Leviticus 2:11-13
Salt
Crucial rituals often featuringline dancing, cookouts, and bright, matching t-shirts, tracing back to post-emancipation efforts to reconnect families.
Family Reunions
This is the specific type of temporary, rustic shelter the Israelites were commanded to live in during the feast.
What is a Booth (or Sukkah)
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