Thanksgiving Day may have started with the pilgrims’ feast, but it was President Abraham Lincoln who made a November day of thanks a national tradition.
In his Thanksgiving proclamation in 1863, Lincoln detailed the purpose of the holiday:
“The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. … I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens,” Lincoln wrote.
In that spirit, our question to you today: What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving?
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This one is easy. Being alive and have a wonderful family. To me, nothing else (non-spiritually) matters.
Well, right now, I’m thankful that you posted this wonderful sentiment.
That I’m not a goy & I have no shaichus to “thanksgiving” day!
There is so much to be thankful for..who can even list it?
The same things I am thankful for every other day of the year.
I am thankful that I am not a Turkey
this is a link to George Washington’s Thanksgiving address about 100 years before Abraham Lincoln
http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/…/thanksgiving_read.html
To Yossi, #3: Hakoras hatov is a very important midah. This is a day this great country has set aside to emphasize this midah. Don’t mock it. I’m very grateful to be in the United States. With all it’s flaws, it’s still a place where Jews can be Jews.
yossie #3 YOU ARE A
I thank HaShem, day in and day out, that he has preserved me and permitted me to live.
Yossi (#3):
Very well said.
Yasher Koach