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1 posted on 09/22/2013 8:00:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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...as well as having built a sukkah, the special temporary dwelling for eating and sleeping throughout the seven-day holiday.

For those who believe that Jesus was actually born on Sukkot, it is sometimes theorized that the "manger" was actually a substitution word/concept for the sukkah - a manger being a rude outdoor building similiar in conceptual construction to the temporary outdoor sukkah.

2 posted on 09/22/2013 8:41:31 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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