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our days after Yom Kippur
The Israelites, waiting at the
comes Sukkot.The holiday foot of Mt. Sinai impatiently for
falls on the 15th day of the Moses to return, had built golden
Hebrew month Tishri and calf. God's anger at Israel's faith-
last nine days.
lessness was provoked and Moses
Sukkah is a Hebrew word that intercedes with God when God
means — "booth or tabernacle." threatens to consume Israel Moses
Since the sukkah is the most pleads with God to show Himself
prominent symbol of the holiday, Moses is hidden in a cleft of a rock
the word has become the name and God passes him by as Moses
for the holiday itself, Sukkot. It witnesses the divine revelation.
is the festival that celebrates the
The affirmation of the Lord God
in-gathering of the harvest.
emphasizes God's mercy. It be-
The booths that our people came a favorite quotation in Ju-
were asked to live in were a re- daism and is included in the
minder of God's care of the Is- festival morning prayers of the
raelites as they journeyed in the synagogue.The revelation em-
desert following Moses to the phasizes an idea we seldom hear
Promised Land. They lived in about in thinking of God, for like
booths then. The sukkah, frail Moses, we to want to know more
and open on the sides, teaches the about what God is and what His
lesson of insecurity and the need attributes are. This Sabbath's
to place our reliance upon God.
Torah reading gives us one idea
Another lesson of the sukkah about the Jewish idea of God. God
is thanksgiving, which means not is merciful and long suffering.
only a feeling of gratitude toward
the giver of all goods but also
sharing the harvest bounty with
the poor and the needy.
The traditional cycle of read-
ings from the Torah is interrupt-
ed on this Sabbath during the
festival of Sukkot in order that a
special reading appropriate to the
mood of thanksgiving maybe read
in the synagogue. This portion de-
scribes how the children of Israel
Restraintive anger is one of the
wandering in the desert needed
to know that Moses was there to attributes which Scripture as-
teach. Moses asks to comprehend cribes to God. God is long suffer-
God's essential personality, the at- ing, says Scripture. God restrains
tributes that guide His action and His anger and implores the sin-
His feelings with humanity and ner to mend his ways. In the Yom
the norms by which He operates Kippur motif the prophet Ezekiel
exclaims the Lord has "no plea-
in governing the world.
At Sinai, the presence of God sure in the death of the wicked but
appeared as a consuming fire on that the wicked turn from his evil
top of the mountain. Now, Moses ways and lives." The affirmation
and the people want to know of God's attributes emphasizes
something of an intellectual per- God's mercy. It became a favorite
ception of God's essential reality. quotation in Judaism and is in-
Moses requests a glimpse of the cluded in the festival prayers on
divine presence; God reveals Shabbat Chol Hamoed.
We hear much of justice but lit-
Himself in an ensuing epiphany,
a manifestation of God, for no hu- tle of mercy. The two are inter-
man being can ever penetrate the twined, for justice is the
ultimate mystery of God's being. foundation stone upon which the
The 13 attributes of God list- cosmic structure rests, with mer-
ed in Exodus 34:6-7 became a cy as the measuring line. It be-
matter of intense discussion came, therefore, a supremely
among Jewish scholars in the sacred moment in the festival of
days of Philo. They tried to illic- Sukkot when people stand before
it from these attributes some the open ark to utter the words
principles that would give Jews read from the Torah. These
an insight into God's true being. words are a Jewish classic. They
Maimonidies claimed that these tell us as we recite them — year
attributes only show that God in — year out — that we can still
believe in a God of mercy. That
was ultimately unknowable.
is a comforting thought when
thinking
of this sordid world in
Dr. Richard C. Hertz is disistin-
which we live, or certainly this is
guished professor of Jewish
the time when all humanity
studies at the University of
needs the forgiving qualities of a
Detroit-Mercy.
God of mercy. ❑

Shabbat Chol
HaMoed Sukkot:
Exodus 33:12-34:26
Numbers 29:26-34
Ezekiel 38:18-39:16.