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By Daniel Lancaster | Comments (6) | Posted on October 13, 2008

Blog posts have been sparse on the FFOZ website since the festival season began this fall. We have all been busy keeping festivals and trying to get things done in between Sabbaths and holy days. It's been an eventful holiday season so far at Beth Immanuel in Hudson, Wisconsin, the congregation where I attend. We heard the shofar at Rosh Hashanah, fasted on Yom Kippur and had two babies born in the community, both of them born to the wives of cantors, and both of them born on Yom Kippur. Cantor Chris Moberg's wife Anne had a baby girl, and Cantor Aaron Eby's wife Rachel had a baby boy. Baruch HaShem for the gift of life.

Tonight, the weather forecast is for fifty degrees Fahrenheit and rain--a typical first night for the festival of Sukkot in these parts. As the saying goes, "Into every sukkah, a little rain must fall."

This year, our First Fruits of Zion staff is spread out. Boaz Michael and family will be spending Sukkot this year at a feast site in Tennessee. Toby Janicki and family are spending Sukkot at a feast site in Iowa. I will be shivering in my Sukkah with my family in Saint Paul.

Wherever the feast of Sukkot finds you tonight and over the ensuing week, may the Lord bless you--our First Fruits of Zion family--abundantly with great joy, the joy of the festival, the joy of the kingdom, the joy of the birth of our blessed Messiah. May the memory of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron and David be gathered around your table, and may the holy King of Israel, the risen Messiah, welcome you to his table.

Chag Sameach
D. Thomas Lancaster
Tishri 14, 5769

About the Author: Daniel Lancaster is FFOZ’s Director of Education and regular contributor to messiah magazine. He is the author of Torah Club Volumes Two, Four and Five, and the FFOZ books Mystery of the Gospel, Restoration and more.

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Thanks for the news and blessing! May each of you be blessed in your celebration...

Posted by: DL | October 15, 2008 12:52 AM

We too are having a wonderful and event filled holy day season. This is our first and it's been filled with the joy of the L-rd. G-d blessed us with a beautiful day on Mon and Tue - so we fully enjoyed our first Sukkah. Tuesday we were blessed to be able to have some of our local fellowship over for lunch and reading Torah in our Sukkah. It was a joy. The kids slept in it last night. But, today is our day for rain...

We rejoice with everyone who is enjoying this season. And we will bless His name together.

Perhaps it'd be fun to have a place that whomever wishes could post a few pictures of their Sukkah and Sukkot celebrations. I'd love to see what others have done.

Chag Sameach to you brother and every one at FFOZ.

Posted by: DavidV | October 15, 2008 12:51 PM

Chag s'meach Sukkot, everyone!

...and thanks to Daniel for reminding me how blessed I am to be able to annually observe Sukkot in Los Angeles.

Posted by: Neubill | October 17, 2008 2:10 AM

Mazel tov to Chris and Aaron and their families! Chag same'ach!

Posted by: Michael M. | October 19, 2008 12:37 PM

Daniel, it's traditional for it to rain through Sukkot in Vancouver, as well. But it could be worse -- I hear in Saskatchewan, where I was born, there was a foot of snow inside the sukkahs after the first night!

Sukkot in the olam habah is going to be a cake walk! May it be soon and in our day.

Posted by: Anne M. | October 20, 2008 9:33 PM

My 2 Prayer for Israel partners and I (Southern Spain) celebrated Sukkot with a Christian Messianic community in Gibraltar on Saturday. Because of a storm which was so severe that it broke a cargo ship in 2, there was little green material in Gib, so we took over branches of various Biblical trees and made lulavs. We met other friends from Spain who are also returning to our Jewish roots. Here is an email from the leader of Prince of Peace Fellowship:
Hi Des,
Shalom! I Sincerely on behalf of my wife and my fellow brothers and sisters from Prince Of Peace, want to thank you and the lovely German couple for the love, Word, music and the encouragement shown to everyone who attended Prince of Peace Christian Fellowship at the Feast of Tabernacles (Succot) and for making this special meeting a success as we surely felt the presence of the Lord throughout the meeting.
Baruch HaShem. To Him be the glory!

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