Sukkot in Second Temple-era Jerusalem

FOR SUKKOT: Jerusalem in its glory: Reconstructing the Sukkot pilgrimage to the Second Temple. What was the pilgrims’ visit to Jerusalem on Sukkot during the Second Temple like? (Alan Rosenbaum, Jerusalem Post).

While the model of the Temple at the Israel Museum and the 3D Virtual Tour of the Temple offered at the Western Wall provide us with an idea of what Jerusalem looked like 2,000 years ago, let’s try to abandon the hi-tech look and use our powers of imagination to understand what the process of aliyah la’regel – the ascent to Jerusalem for the holiday – might have been like.

A long, informative article. For more on the Theodotus inscription, see here and here.

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