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Tabernacles

noun

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. Synonyms: Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles, Succos, Succoth, Sukkoth.

Tabernacle

noun

The Mormon temple. Synonym: Mormon Tabernacle.

(Judaism) a portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant on their exodus.

(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation. Synonyms: synagogue, temple.

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"Tabernacles" Quotes from Famous Books

... "the tabernacles sacred to the reproductive powers of women;" and the Rabbis declare that the emblem was the ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... From The Talmud Translator's Introduction On Blessings On The Sabbatical Year On The Sabbath On The Passover On The Day Of Atonement On Tabernacles The New Year On Fasting The Feast-Offering The Sanhedrin On Idolatry The Fathers The Daily Sacrifice On Measurements The Tabernacle The Heifer Hands The Kabbalah Unveiled: The Lesser Holy Assembly Chapter I: Which Containeth the Introduction Chapter II: Concerning ...

— Hebrew Literature

... which their colouring, and the layer of plaster it involved, disguised or hid. We may think that in architecture stone is the most beautiful [118] of all things. Modern hands have replaced the colour on some of the tombs here—the effigies, the tabernacles above—skilfully as may be, and have but deprived them of their dignity. Medieval colouring, in fact, must have improved steadily, as it decayed, almost till there came to be no question of colour at all. In architecture, close as it is to men's ...

— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater

... rough feed in the Mia-mia Paddock, and there the tribes congregated to hold their protracted Feast of Tabernacles, their vast camp-meeting, which they by no means conducted on religious lines. For the easy profanity, unconscious obscenity, and august slang of the back country scented the air like myall; whilst the aggregate repertory of bon fide anecdote and reminiscence was something ...

— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... families on the account of salvation's being brought unto them; parents rejoicing over their children as being new-born, and husbands over their wives, and wives over their husbands. The goings of God were then seen in his sanctuary. God's day was a delight, and his tabernacles were amiable. Our public assemblies were then beautiful; the congregation was alive in God's service, every one intent on the public worship, every hearer eager to drink in the words of the minister as they came from his mouth; the assembly ...

— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

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