Three years ago, I was living in Jerusalem, and along with both Christians and Jews, celebrating the annual Feast of Tabernacles, also known as Sukkot. It is a colorful week of festivities, with Jewish families partying in their gardens, balconies or rooftops. At the same time, thousands of Christian pilgrims also gather in Jerusalem, some of them heralding their arrival by citing Zechariah 8: 22-23:
And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him. This is what the Lord Almighty says: "In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, 'Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.'"
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