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There are other novelties as well. The Essenes celebrated Yom Kippur, Succoth and Shavuot, but the Temple Scroll contains regulations for festivals that are unknown elsewhere in Judaism: the First Fruits of Wine and of Oil, and the Wood Offering, which lasted for six days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Newest of the Dead Sea Scrolls | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...instead of going into bankruptcy, the Israelis are celebrating what they call a boomchik. Recently, in the midst of the Jews' annual Succoth harvest festival, Finance Minister Ze'ev Sharef officially hailed the end of the three-year economic downturn. "All signs show that we have finally overcome stagnation," he said. "There are no longer any real obstacles to our development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Boomchik | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

There is a semireligious inspiration behind the Jewish back-to-the-farm movement, for the Jewish civilization of the Old Testament was primarily agricultural. The three great religious feasts of the Jews-Passover, Pentecost, Succoth-are fundamentally harvest festivals. Though in the centuries of the Diaspora (dispersion) circumstances have forced most Jews into occupations from which they could pull up stakes at any time, there nevertheless have always been farmer Jews somewhere. Today there are 800,000 Jewish farmers in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jewish Farmers | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur over, Jews looked forward to celebrating this week the Hebrew analog to Thanksgiving-the eight-day harvest festival, Succoth, in which good Jews build booths near their homes, deck them with fruits and produce, in memory of the days when Palestinians lived in open huts during their wanderings in the wilderness of Sinai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Black Jews | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Succoth (Feast of the Tabernacles), Jewish holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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