Tales of the Talmidim
The Baby In the Sukkah


Who is the Baby in the Sukkah?


Yosef was a great, great, great grandson of Dovid Melech Yisrael, (David King of Israel). Miriam and Yosef were travelling to Judea. The roads were filled with people registering for the Roman census and going up to Jerusalem for the festival of Sukkot. Miriam and Yosef went slower than everyone else because it was almost time for the baby to be born.

They came to the Beit Lechem, the hometown of Dovid Melech Yisrael, but there was no place for them to stay. The people who had passed them on the road had filled up all the rooms. They asked at an inn, but there was no room, so they went out to sleep in the stable, the sukkah where the animals were kept. There in the sukkah under the starry Beit Lechem sky, the baby was born.

A short distance away, some shepherds were watching over their flocks, just like Dovid Melech Yisrael had done when he was a boy. It was dark, but suddenly an angel appeared in the sky, coming down from heaven. When the shepherds saw him, they were afraid. But the angel said, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great simchah, great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of Dovid a Savior has been born to you; he is Messiah the Master. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a stable." Suddenly the whole sky was filled with angels, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

The angels disappeared. The shepherds hurried into Beit Lechem and found Miriam and Yosef in the stable. There he was. The baby in the sukkah. Just like the angels said. The King of Israel, born in the city of Dovid Melech Yisrael, King of Israel. The King of Israel was just a baby in a sukkah!

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