ABSTRACT
The Feast of Tabernacles (Hebrew) 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. The booth or hut which the pious Israelite decks for the Feast of Tabernacles is the symbol of the imperishable truths. 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. The word Atsereth is used in the Bible to denote the last day not only of Tabernacles, but of Passover. It is also applied to the closing day of Solomon's Feast. It may therefore possibly mean "closing" feast also. This view likewise was not unfamiliar to the Rabbins.
