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Recommend a Thanksgiving d'var torah to read @ table
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amother
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Post Today at 7:47 am
Something more Jonathan Sacks style - like connecting TG to the Torah.
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PinkFridge  




 
 
    
 

Post Today at 8:01 am
Did you try googling "Rabbi Jonathan Sacks thankgiving"?
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amother
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Post Today at 8:02 am
Is there a connection of Thanksgiving with the torah?
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amother
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Post Today at 8:05 am
amother Brickred wrote:
Is there a connection of Thanksgiving with the torah?


isn't there a connection between the torah and everything?

thanksgiving is about the pilgrims being thankful to god, religious persecution & religious freedom, etc. it's not that hard to connect thanksgiving to god. I could write the d'var torah myself but I'm sure someone much smarter and holier has done it better than I would do.
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Post Today at 8:09 am
You might also try Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik.
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amother
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Post Today at 8:11 am
amother OP wrote:
isn't there a connection between the torah and everything?

thanksgiving is about the pilgrims being thankful to god, religious persecution & religious freedom, etc. it's not that hard to connect thanksgiving to god. I could write the d'var torah myself but I'm sure someone much smarter and holier has done it better than I would do.

But we're supposed to be thankful to God all day every day, not just on Thanksgiving....
"Thanksgiving Dvar Torah" is just a weird thing to say. It's not shabbos or yom tov l'havdil.
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amother
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Post Today at 8:14 am
PinkFridge wrote:
You might also try Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik.


Thank you. This looks good for reading, but maybe a little too technical to read at a table:

https://www.yu.edu/sites/defau.....1.pdf
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amother
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Post Today at 8:15 am
amother Brickred wrote:
But we're supposed to be thankful to God all day every day, not just on Thanksgiving....
"Thanksgiving Dvar Torah" is just a weird thing to say. It's not shabbos or yom tov l'havdil.


We get it. You don't think much of thanksgiving. No need for you to participate in this thread. Other people get what I'm asking and have been helpful. There's absolutely nothing wrong with bringing torah to the thanksgiving table.
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amother
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Post Today at 8:16 am
amother Brickred wrote:
But we're supposed to be thankful to God all day every day, not just on Thanksgiving....
"Thanksgiving Dvar Torah" is just a weird thing to say. It's not shabbos or yom tov l'havdil.

This. Exactly my thoughts. What has our world come to??
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amother
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Post Today at 8:18 am
This is exactly why I think it's problematic to celebrate. You want to eat a meal with family and thank the country ok, but thinking it's a yom tov and you should bring torah to it? That's going way too far.
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amother
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Post Today at 8:18 am
amother OP wrote:
We get it. You don't think much of thanksgiving. No need for you to participate in this thread. Other people get what I'm asking and have been helpful. There's absolutely nothing wrong with bringing torah to the thanksgiving table.


Of course there is.
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eezee  




 
 
    
 

Post Today at 8:20 am
Simple, meaningful, straightforward, and easily readable:
https://aish.com/four-jewish-I.....ving/
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Post Today at 8:22 am
more deep and not as easy a read, but also beautiful and meaningful:
https://www.torahweb.org/torah......html
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amother
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Post Today at 8:24 am
amother OP wrote:
We get it. You don't think much of thanksgiving. No need for you to participate in this thread. Other people get what I'm asking and have been helpful. There's absolutely nothing wrong with bringing torah to the thanksgiving table.


How do you know that there's nothing wrong with bringing torah to the Thanksgiving table? A holiday that has Cristian roots?
We're supposed to be thankful to hashem all day every day. Do you say a d'var torah at the dinner table every day?
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amother
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Post Today at 8:26 am
amother Brickred wrote:
How do you know that there's nothing wrong with bringing torah to the Thanksgiving table? A holiday that has Cristian roots?


Lay off.
You do you and leave others to do what they want.
You're posts are not convincing anyone, they are just agitating conflict and are uncalled for.
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amother
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Post Today at 8:26 am
eezee wrote:
Simple, meaningful, straightforward, and easily readable:
https://aish.com/four-jewish-I.....ving/


Thank you. Printing this.

amother DarkKhaki wrote:
This is exactly why I think it's problematic to celebrate. You want to eat a meal with family and thank the country ok, but thinking it's a yom tov and you should bring torah to it? That's going way too far.


Nobody's thinking it's a yom tov. It's a day off and we have time for a big meal where we're not in a rush like a weekday dinner, and we want to learn and appreciate some torah. Not sure why this bothers you.
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amother
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Post Today at 8:31 am
amother Brickred wrote:
How do you know that there's nothing wrong with bringing torah to the Thanksgiving table? A holiday that has Cristian roots?
We're supposed to be thankful to hashem all day every day. Do you say a d'var torah at the dinner table every day?


We get it. You don't like thanksgiving and you don't do thanksgiving. You're not going to do thanksgiving in any form. This thread is for people who do thanksgiving. Go enjoy your day instead of causing fights.
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amother
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Post Today at 8:35 am
amother OP wrote:
We get it. You don't like thanksgiving and you don't do thanksgiving. You're not going to do thanksgiving in any form. This thread is for people who do thanksgiving. Go enjoy your day instead of causing fights.


I like Thanksgiving. I appreciate the day.
I'm just questioning the appropriateness of having a "Thanksgiving Dvar Torah". You should have a dvar Torah every day......
Will you also say yaaleh v'yavo at benching........
I'm really not interested in causing fights. I'm just asking a question. You're taking it way too personally instead of just thinking in to it.
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  PinkFridge  




 
 
    
 

Post Today at 8:36 am
amother OP wrote:
Thank you. This looks good for reading, but maybe a little too technical to read at a table:

https://www.yu.edu/sites/defau.....1.pdf


Honestly, it's not on most of our radars. When I googled, I found material that you could probably distill.
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  PinkFridge  




 
 
    
 

Post Today at 8:38 am
amother OP wrote:
Thank you. This looks good for reading, but maybe a little too technical to read at a table:

https://www.yu.edu/sites/defau.....1.pdf


Yeah, now that I look at it, maybe not what you want. It's more history than dvar Torah. A lot of it is appendix.
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