First of all, what is wrong with taking one day to make sure you do everything in your power to treat your spouse/parent like the king/queen that they really are? That doesn’t take away from any other day of the year, it just means you are more focused on it for one day. Second, why is making one day special such a non-jewish idea? Not that I am comparing the two in the slightest bit, but we do have such a concept with yom kippur. Every day of the year it is understood that we should be doing t’shuva for all of our sins, but on yom kippur there is an extra specialness to it. Again, I am not comparing the two, so please don’t jump on me for that. All I am saying is that we DO have a concept of taking one day and emphasizing something which we should be doing every other da as well.
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