The recently concluded festival of Sukkot celebrates both the exodus from Egypt and the conclusion of the harvest. While its signature rituals—dwelling in huts (sukkot) and waving branches of palm, myrtle, and willow along with a citron—seem decidedly unmodern, Meir Soloveichik argues that the holiday’s “message speaks profoundly to the moral and spiritual challenges of our time.” Yet its significance has changed dramatically as the Jews went from an ancient agricultural people living in their own state on their own land to a people living in exile and rarely engaged in farming, and then to a people once again living in an independent nation-state in their homeland. (Video, 36 minutes.)
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