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Old 10-03-2013, 06:36 AM
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It seems that Chanukah will start on Thanksgiving this year. Both holidays symbolize the search for freedom. Here is an article with some ideas for celebrating the 2 holidays together:
How To Celebrate Thanksgivukkah, The Best Holiday Of All Time
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Old 10-03-2013, 11:32 AM
 
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Both holidays symbolize the search for freedom. Here is an article with some ideas for celebrating the 2 holidays together:
Chanuka doesn't symbolize the search for freedom.
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Old 10-03-2013, 03:09 PM
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Chanuka doesn't symbolize the search for freedom.
Chanukah is about religious freedom from the Greeks.
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Old 10-03-2013, 05:58 PM
 
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I've seen a lot of really interesting Thanksgiving meal plans being tossed around: Manishewitz-brined deep fried turkey, cranberry sauce sufganiyot, pecan pie rugelech, pumpkin-noodle kugel... so many options! Might as well have some fun with it.
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Old 10-03-2013, 06:14 PM
 
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Are we on the same page?

Chanuka celebrates the victory of holy over the sacrilegious, while Thanksgiving celebrates the plentiful harvest the pioneers enjoyed thanks to the help of Native Americans.
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Old 10-04-2013, 12:36 PM
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Are we on the same page?

Chanuka celebrates the victory of holy over the sacrilegious, while Thanksgiving celebrates the plentiful harvest the pioneers enjoyed thanks to the help of Native Americans.
Those pioneers came to America to look for religious freedom.
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Old 10-04-2013, 01:20 PM
 
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I've always understood Chanukah to be the victory of Torah values over assimilation.
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Old 10-05-2013, 06:05 PM
 
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Why is it a problem for a person to create a thread that looks at the similarities between two holidays that overlap this year in the US without being put under a microscope? Why does there need to be an argument over the wording of the OP?

Chanukah is not in the Tanakh and its barely mentioned in the Talmud. In its simplicity, its freedom relation was the ability to re-enter the second Temple and to be able to daven there. Freedom of religion.

Why did the Pilgrims come to America? They we're separatists from the doctrine of England. So in some way it is also a freedom of religion. So in some way their harvest festival has a relation to it.
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Old 10-05-2013, 08:28 PM
 
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One holiday, a million different interpretations! I've always seen it as a holiday of hope and that G-d will provide myself. But that's not to say it can't ALSO be about the search for freedom, victory of holy over sacriledge, and the victory of Torah values over assimilation.

And this year, it can also be about the Menurky, lighting the menorah before settling down to watch the Wizard of Oz, cranberry donuts, and, as it always should be, love of your family and friends.
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Old 10-06-2013, 07:33 AM
 
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Why is it a problem for a person to create a thread that looks at the similarities between two holidays that overlap this year in the US without being put under a microscope? Why does there need to be an argument over the wording of the OP?

Chanukah is not in the Tanakh and its barely mentioned in the Talmud. In its simplicity, its freedom relation was the ability to re-enter the second Temple and to be able to daven there. Freedom of religion.

Why did the Pilgrims come to America? They we're separatists from the doctrine of England. So in some way it is also a freedom of religion. So in some way their harvest festival has a relation to it.
What a kind post.
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