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...backyard, ensconced in a cozy black leather armchair, Rabbi Philip Berg, 68, is presiding over a hushed celebration of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkoth. As the garden party proceeds, he remembers when he saw the Light. "When you meet your master, it takes but a minute," says Berg, referring to the late, hallowed Kabbalist Yehudah Brandwein. "The Light simply turned on." The enlightenment was passed on by marriage as well: Brandwein's niece became Berg's first wife. Since Berg met Brandwein in 1962, the Brooklyn-born leader of the Kabbalah Learning Center has pursued a single mission...
Still, during Sukkoth, the students don't seem dysfunctional. Berg has put them up for a spiritual slumber party. Laughter rings out, and the smell of pea soup and fresh-baked challah bread emanates from the kitchen. Says Erickson: "Kabbalah is like the spiritual refrigerator. If you're hungry...
...Israeli police version. At 10:30 a.m., as more than 15,000 Jews gathered at the Western Wall for prayers celebrating the Sukkoth festival, they were ambushed by a mob of 3,000 Palestinians positioned on the Temple Mount above, hurling rocks at the rate of nearly 300 a minute. Simultaneously, Palestinians attacked and burned a police post on the Temple grounds and stoned a nearby yeshiva. When police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, the Palestinians locked the doors to the Temple Mount...
...stockpiling stones, bottles, and other heavy throwables. Although it was a regular Muslim workday, the large crowd had excellent reason for being up so early. Soon thousands of Jews would be assembling to worship at the Western Wall in celebration of the fifth day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth...
...Sukkoth, the planners decided, is the ideal festival for promoting Jewish-Christian reconciliation. It is the only one of three obligatory Jewish pilgrim festivals in the Bible that was not supplanted in Christianity (Passover became Easter, and the Feast of Weeks became Pentecost Sunday). The seven-day festival stressed repentance for Christendom's past sins against Jews. Explained the program: "Though we may not be accountable personally for the historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People...