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To: Zionist Conspirator
So is Thanksgiving Day considered chuqqat hagoyim, too?
188 posted on 11/01/2012 2:55:59 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
So is Thanksgiving Day considered chuqqat hagoyim, too?

That's a very good question!

Certainly Orthodox Jews (especially the Charedim) do not observe Thanksgiving Day, as G-d has given them holidays of their own.

For Noachides Thanksgiving is a more complex issue. It is problematic because it is a religious holiday, and non-Jews are forbidden to invent new religious holidays, even if those holidays are based on the Noachide Laws themselves. However, we know from the TaNa"KH that non-Jewish kings have in the past proclaimed days of fasting in repentance for their sins. I suppose a day of thanksgiving would fall in the same category, though whether this should be a regular annual day or a reaction to the preaching of a Prophet I do not know.

This is the best I can tell you right now.

194 posted on 11/01/2012 4:07:55 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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