The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-07
The FEAST OF SUCCOTHS.
HOW Il COMMAND OF MOSES IS
CARRIED OUT
In tho New Weird The LuIov ana It
significance.


significance.
This is the time when the trade in
| lulovs assumes large proportions. ~The
public in general does not know what a
| lulov is, yet fifty thousand of them are
imported every year from Palestine.
and they are sold in great quantities all
/ over this city. For this is the time of
the Feast of Succoths, which, being
translated, signifies the Feast of Tab
ernacles, commanded by Moses, in re-
membrance of the years of wandering
in the wilderness. The words of the
command run as follows: Eye shall
take you on the first day (of the feasD
the boughs of goodly trees branches of
palm trees and the boughs of thick
/ trees and willows of the brook; and we
shall rejoice before the Lord seven
days, 1t shall be 4 statute for
ever in your generations; We shall cele-
brate 1t in the seventh month. Ye
shall dwell in booths seven days; all
that are Israelites born shall dwell in
booths; that your generations may
know that I made the children Of Isra-
ell to dwell in booths when I brought
them out of the land OF Egypt; I am
the Lord your God" Times have
changed in the thirty-fve hundred
years that have passed since this word
was given, but the boughs of goodly
trees, willow and palm, are still in evil
dence on the east side.
10 dwell together in booths is impos-
sible nowadays, but 1t is possible to
take ones meals there, although with
considerable inconvenience. So in back
yards and on the tops of sheds and eV-
erywhere that the crowded houses offer
a few feet of spare room, booths are
put up. The sides of these are of
cred with the goodly branches, in this
case of cedar trees, hailing from no
more historic spot than Long Island.
But the palms come from Jerusalem,
and with every palm comes a little
twig of willow and citron-a Biblical
citron-all grown in the Holy Land.
This outfit Is called the lulov. The ci-
tron is added to represent the fruits of
the earth" which have supposedly been
gathered in by the nation. Infinitely
pathetic that the years labor of the
poorest workers in the crowded shops
of a great city should be represented
by golden fruit grown under blue
sky far away.
The booths known as s,lccoths (pro-
nounced sookies) are necessarily very
small. so only the men of the family
can be accommodated Orthodox .Juda-
ism considers that n woman f1lfills her
dutv nv the reorinp Of children and
that only the wickeder sex needs the
Justification of PRAYERS and obsery
auces. But the feast 10 particinated in
bv east side women at anv rate for n
vast amount of trotting about must ba
done to satisfy the wants of the hum
grv jewellers in booths" However
the women do NOT mind this much for
the DAYS are DAYS of rejoicing and of
good things 70 eat nm every side
Moreover there is much wine oven
more than usual although home made
wine is ALWAYS nrettv plentifuI IN the
east side. On this feast. alone of all
the wear. the re,;gious and sober lew
feels called upon ia drink his All and a
little more IT cannot he called drunk
enness but there is general exhila-
ration and much passing of tests and
not a little dancing of the good old
sort TT is oreioicinp - and NOT de-
ha,,f,,..ry
The lulov is NOT cbeap since IT comes
all the wav from, Palestine "sat,,
costs iS175 50 It cannot be bought by
The difficulty Ia obviated
Inv the thrift of certain mon who buv
lulovs and carry them around to the
tenments charging few cents for the
privilege of saving q prayer over them
The palm is held in a certain manner
and "waved." then the PRAYER called
(help) is said. and the
duty of those who are NOT blessed with
this worlds goods ia done
There is a legend that at the Feast of
Abraham Isaac Jacob
nToe,oe aud o3ba ,,,,,tl,;or Of tba opoiapt
dax, c,,oa and ebara tha feast of Israel