Tabernacles
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1. Tabernacles - Noun
2. Tabernacles - Proper noun
Meaning
a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness
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Thousands of people attended a traditional Jewish blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles).
The Chapel is surrounded on three sides by large tabernacles which form part of the external buttresses.
Four Palestinian Arabs were arrested by Palestinian Authority police for the heinous crime of visiting a Jewish during the just-ended Feast of Tabernacles.
However, there are many indications that this was not so, and that the Triumphal Entry in fact occurred in the autumn, the time of the Jewish festival known as the Feast of Tabernacles.
It was on the Feast of Tabernacles that Solomon performed the Dedication of the First Temple, offering a long, moving prayer to God, standing on a platform specially built in the Temple Court.
However, in international communities with large Rastafari populations, Rastafari have created tabernacles, churches, headquarters, and temples as spiritual meeting centers.