Why do we Recall the Clouds of Glory on Sukkot

Why do we Recall the Clouds of Glory on Sukkot?

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On the first day, the Schkinah glory of Elohim filled the universe until the creation of the Sun, Moon, and stars on the 4th day.

Why is it specifically the “clouds of glory” that are worthy of being commemorated on Sukkot? What about the other miracles?

One of the reasons that Jews dwell in a sukkah (hut) for seven days is in order to recall the “clouds of glory” that protected the Jewish people as they traveled through the desert for 40 years.

The question is asked: Why is it specifically the ”clouds of glory” that are worthy of being commemorated? Why do we not commemorate the other miracles that the Jewish people experienced while wandering the desert, such as the manna which kept them alive along with the constant supply of fresh water from Miriam’s well?

Yeshua said: I Am the everlasting wellspring of water.

Joh_4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

Joh_4:11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

Joh_4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

Joh_4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

This ties to John 7 and the river of life on the Great day of the Feast which ties to the rapture/resurrection on the 7/8th day. The number 7 means completion. The number 8 means a new beginning.

The Seventh Day, God Rests Gen 2:1  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  Gen 2:2  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.  Gen 2:3  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. 

Why were only the protective clouds singled out for remembrance?

One answer is that the miracles of the manna and the well had to do with sin. For example, there was a time that the Jewish people complained about the manna, as well as a time that they complained about the water, not to mention that water was the cause of Moses being forbidden from entering the Land of Israel. As such, there were no mitzvot (Torah commandments) instituted to recall these miracles. In fact, there was even concern that if we were to commemorate these items, we would thereby remind God of our ancestors’ sins.

Another answer offered is that God was “obligated” to give us “bread and water” for our very survival. It was expected. Not all parents give their children the most expensive toys and gifts, but all parents give their children basic food in order for them to live. Since this was something that God “had” to do, there is no mitzvah to commemorate it. The clouds of glory, however, were a luxury, not a necessity. But since He did provide them, we commemorate them.

The Zohar calls the sukkah “the shade of faith” and teaches that proper observance of the mitzvah of the sukkah has the ability to inspire us and bring us closer to God, and by extension, to keep alive the bond we forged with God over Yom Kippur well into the year ahead.

In 2009 on the 7th day of Sukkot, Obama received the Norwegian Peace Medallion. In 2010, there were 5 planets lined up in a row starting off the last 7 years of the tribulation period based on 1848 + 62 Feasts of Weeks/Pentecosts.= 2010. In 2017, Jupiter exits the legs of Virgo and the destroyer is waiting for the King planet.