Biblijne święto Sukkot

Abstract

The calendars of Israel, included in the OT texts, show the evolution of the holiday Succot. The development consisted in a switch from the original celebrations of the harvest feast to celebrating it as a remembrance of the wanderings of the Israelites in the desert after their fleeing from Egypt. The process of rereading the texts and reinterpreting the feast of the harvest finishes with the rite of the holiday of Succot. In the after-deportation period we observe rivalry among the circles which in the holiday of Succot want to see the Israeli agricultural feast, reinterpreted by historic experience of God's care during the wandering in the desert. It is expressed in an additional element, i.e. the duty to live in huts. The Jerusalem circles of the end of the Biblical epoch treat the holiday of Succot, which they link with the holiday of Hanukkah, as an instrument of political and religious consolidation of Israel.