Monday 22 March 2010

Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Passover Seder

What do
• Thanksgiving
• Mother's Day,
and
• The Passover Seder

Have in common?


They all ritualize in a single annual celebration which is ALREADY a daily obligation anyway!


• Thanksgiving ritualizes our gratitude to Hashem -which according to Modim is daily

• Mother's Day ritualizes "Kibbud Eim" which is a constant obligation

• The Passover Seder ritualizes the commemoration of the Exodus which is a twice daily obligation

KT
RRW

1 comment:

micha berger said...

When my grade school rabbeim made that argument for why "we" (meaning: they in the W-burg community) don't celebrate Thanksgiving or Mother's Day, I made a similar argument about teshuvah and Yom Kippur.

Kibbud eim is every day, but that no more makes Mother's Day superfluous than the perpetual value of teshuvah obliviates the value of Yom Kippur.

-micha