Israel’s Fall Feasts

Over the centuries, Israel’s national life has revolved around her great feasts. In the days of the Tabernacle and, later, The Temple, Abraham’s sons heeded the Lord’s call to assemble “before the Lᴏʀᴅ thy God in the place which he shall choose” (Dt. 16:16). By biblical mandate (Lev. 23), the nation observed seven feasts. These celebrations were clustered together in the spring a

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