Who Keeps Working During Sukkot?
The Torah mandates rest on the pilgrimage festivals — and mandates that every able Israelite male appear in Jerusalem. Those two commands collide the moment eighty thousand pilgrims arrive. This episode traces the ancient infrastructure that made it work: roads cut into bedrock, innkeepers paid in sacrificial hides, wells dug with public money, and a Temple that doubled as the economic engine of the whole festival. It also asks the question Daniel sent in — how did employers and workers survive losing weeks to travel every year? The answer is stranger than expected, because the medieval and…
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