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Sep 29, 2023 -
Fri, Oct 6, 2023
Jewish Holiday of Sukkot
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The Jewish people peacefully celebrate their festival of Tabernacles
Remembering God's care and protection in the 40 years of pilgrimage through the Sinai desert after the Liberation of Egypt.
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The last day of the festival is the most extraordinary of all. In the New Testament that joy is preserved with the famous words of Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem during the festival of Sukkot when he said: “And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood up and cried with a loud voice, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink”
(John 7: 37,38)
After the conclusion of the holiday of Sukkot, the Jewish people celebrate a companion holiday called Simchat Torah, the joy of Torah. This holiday seeks to preserve the joy of completing the reading of the Torah in one year. The festival of Simchat Torah is celebrated with great joy, with singing and dancing. This year 2023, Simchat Torah began to be celebrated throughout Israel on October 7.
That same day, October 7, with the joy of the holiday, Israel also celebrated 50 years of the terrible betrayal committed against our people when celebrating our most sacred day, October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria launched and coordinated a surprise attack against Israel.
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On October 7 of this year 2023, in the middle of the Simchat Torah holiday, early in the day, Israel was surprisingly and brutally attacked by Hamas terrorist forces on its southern border, killing more than 1,400 people in their homes, at a music festival, and in the streets and taking approximately 240 captives, including babies, boys, girls, young people, mothers with their children, old men and women and taking them as hostages to Gaza .
That same day, October 7, 2023, in the morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country is "at war" following Hamas attacks this Saturday.
The president of Israel, Isaac Herzogl said: "My nation is in great agony; the people of Israel are in deep pain that is unprecedented, we are in mourning."
From the first days of the War, we had to evacuate many of the towns and villages in Southern Israel that were in danger of war. Approximately 200,000 Jewish people were moved from their homes, with thousands of children under 7 years old relocated to hotels and government buildings for their safety. The country in total shock and without knowing what would happen next.
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Upon learning of the situation, our President and Founder, Rabbi Daniel A. Hayyim, called on all our communities and friends to begin a program to help displaced families from Israel, which, due to the priority of the war in the South and the dangers of war in the North with the Lebanese border were most vulnerable.
With the help received, Rabbi Daniel A. Hayyim, together with his wife, Rabanit Judith Hayyim, mobilized his friends in Israel to receive the help sent from the USA and begin a program to distribute basic food to the most needy families., including material and moral support to our troops near the borders with Gaza.