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Wondering why the CR seems so quiet lately.
Thursday is Thanksgiving. Today and tomorrow is when half the people are aggressively grocery shopping. Others are traveling.
Turkeys. Pumpkin pies. Potatoes and sweet potatoes/yams. Cranberries. Wine. Etc.
Some people celebrate and others don’t. I don’t know how many frum people don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Based on my Facebook feed and insider knowledge I know of at least four families who are enjoying the holiday.
School and work is usually off on Thursday and Friday. Some leave early on Wednesday.
A lot of people travel to spend the holiday with family. It’s not like in Israel where someone just drives from Haifa to Tel Aviv. Many people have to fly across the coast or country just to reunite with family (which brings in other stressors). Overall though it’s a nice opportunity to gather with mishpacha 🙂
Business have turned the week of Thanksgiving into Black Friday Week.
in yiddishkeit EVERY DAY IS THANKSGIVING
may you come to appreciate everything Hashems gives you & thank him from your heart for it without the need to get EXTRA-like Leah imeinu with Yehuda-in order to thank Hashem. May you thank Hashem for every tiny gift Hashem gives us. From the food we eat to all the amazing technology created by hashem & sent down to the world through messengers etc…
I’ve been in court all week, because the courts will close Thursday and Friday for a long holiday, judges scheduled trials on Monday….a day usually reserved for conferences and opinion writing. Judge told us that court would end at 1PM today so that she could fly off to California to visit her children.
Youngest daughter came home from college in NY noontime yesterday, her professors cancelled afternoon classes to get a jumpstart on the holiday. I sent a complaint to the college President…I’m paying approximately $150 for each classroom hour and I expect the classes to be taught, not have some lazy professor steal my money.
Local public schools close at noon today for travel, private schools are closed.
This is a far cry from when I was in school or university when he got Thanksgiving Day off, full day Wednesday and Friday.
All this time off from school jus keeps contributing to the dumbing down of America
Thanksgiving today has no religious significance, Its just a day where familes get together , eat turkey watch football and argue with Aunt Sadie and uncle fred whom you havent seen since last year. And you can leave once the meal is over and not see your hated relatives until next year
CT, I agree wholeheartedly.
Thanksgiving never was a religious holiday. That myth is always cited by people looking to justify not celebrating. The first national day of Thanksgiving was declared by the first Congress to meet under the new Constitution in the 1780’s to give thanks to G-d for the new Constitution. Southern Congressmen had objected to the declaration because it was something that European kings did. Roger Sherman of Connecticut argued that they were actually following the example of King Solomon, who thanked G-d for allowing him to build the Temple. The Southerners said they had no problem emulating Solomon and approved the declaration.
While it is true that the local church instituted a Thanksgiving prayer, so did the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, which was then located just down the street from Federal Hall, where Congress met.
Some sales start before Thanksgiving. Some stores are open on Thanksgiving and/or start Black Friday on Thursday. Walmart is notorious for being open 24/7 all week long, including Thanksgiving.
LU, you’re new to the CR. This is the first year that I can recall that that debate didn’t come up.
With regard to your other point, that being Jewish and an American are incompatible when it comes to American holidays. However, when it comes to Medicaid, school bussing and other benefits, our hands are out , shouting that we’re Americans, we are entitled, just like the goyim.
“in yiddishkeit EVERY DAY IS THANKSGIVING”
Mashiach Agent: Being grateful and giving thanks is great. Just slightly different than Thanksgiving, as the one day a year where business stops, family reunites, people eat lavishly, travel anticipates it’s arrival and come nightfall the day after, people start descending back to their regular lives.
Is it just me, but…
Thanksgiving is more like Shabbat or a Yom Tov than every day?
The difference between Shabbos or Yom Tov and Thanksgiving is after the meal when everyone is getting cabin fever and sick of each other , you can go home.
When the first family fight occurs right after kiddush on the first day of yom tov , you are all stuck together for the next 48 hours
I can think of more important differences…
“When the first family fight occurs right after kiddush on the first day of yom tov , you are all stuck together for the next 48 hours (zahavasdad). “
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote of the century lol
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