This Shabbat is the Shabbat following Thanksgiving. Of course Thanksgiving isn't specifically a Jewish holiday, but most American Jews celebrate it along with all their non-Jewish neighbors. A little known fact, however, is that after coming to the New World and establishing a holiday after their first harvest, the Pilgrims modeled their holiday after the Biblical holiday of Sukkot. Sukkot is a harvest festival, after all, and its major theme is "thanksgiving." The Pilgrims saw themselves as the New Israelites: they fled an evil king, crossed a sea and came to a promised land.
Shabbat Shalom!
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