How is a frum yid’s “celebrating” Thanksgiving Day different from his/her celebrating the Fourth of July, Veteran’s Day, Labor Day Prisident’s Day or MLK’s Birthday. For most of us who work for non-frum employers, its a paid holiday and sometimes a four-day weekend (except for government employees who have to work today). No, we don’t consider Thanksgiving Dinner a “seudas Mitzvah”, although we might have purchased a Turkey because they were on sale for “yom tov”. We do not add ya’aleh v’yavoh in benching afterwards. Its just a relaxed day off where we can veg out from the daily grind….Does everything have to be so intensely analyzed?
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