For two millennia, Jews have agreed on the identity of the four species of Sukkot plants; prior to  the rabbis, though, consensus is conspicuously absent.

“Jews are the world’s experts in insecurity, having lived with it for millennia. And the supreme response to insecurity is Sukkot.”

As the festival on which both temples were dedicated, Sukkot is associated in both prophetic and rabbinic literature with the messianic era—and historically with several. . .