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This, the fifth parenthetical Hebrew allusion in the list of "four things", must represent the Ass. | This, the fifth parenthetical Hebrew allusion in the list of "four things", must represent the Ass. | ||
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Revision as of 10:07, 14 November 2006
- sukkoth: (Hebrew) huts or booths → refers to the movable shelters the Jews lived in during the 40 years in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt
- Sukkot: Sukkot, or Succoth, is the Jewish Harvest Festival, sometimes called the Jewish Thanksgiving, or the Feast of Tabernacles. It begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Tishri (roughly late September), on the fifth day after Yom Kippur. The celebration lasts for 7 days, during which the Jews commemorate the wandering in the wilderness
- Succoth: two or more locations in the Bible
- Exodus 12.37: “The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth”
- Wikipedia
- succubus: a female demon that has intercourse with men in their sleep → cf. the allusion to an incubus in line 11 above
Commentary
This, the fifth parenthetical Hebrew allusion in the list of "four things", must represent the Ass.
