ABSTRACT
The Feast of Tabernacles is the third of the Joyous Feasts. It falls on the 15th of Tishri, the seventh month of the Hebrew year, and lasts eight days. The eighth day has come to have a special name, and is known as the Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly. Tabernacles comes in the autumn, at a time when the husbandman in Palestine had safely gathered all the produce of his lands into barn and storehouse and wine-press. It was the time, for counting up his possessions, for estimating the wealth that the earth had yielded him, and therefore a time for thinking of God, the Giver. The Rabbins, were justified in styling Tabernacles "The Season of Joy," just as they designated Passover "The Season of Freedom," and Pentecost "The Season of the Giving of the Law".
