I hope this can be a time of gratitude for you and your family. and a time that gives birth to greater peace. commitment. and courage to face the challenges in your life and in mine. I am grateful to Rabbi Stephen Pinsky of Temple Israel in Minneapolis for showing me the ancient roots of Thanksgiving in the Hebrew Festival of Succot. the Feast of Ingathering. The early immigrants to these shores had a love and appreciation of the Hebrew Scriptures and identified with the Exodus of the Children of Israel. As Rabbi Plnsky has written. they "recognized the deep significance of a solemn occasion of thanksgiving for a people who had found new hope far from tyranny." There is much for us to be thankful for as a nation. For most of us. these are times of prosperity and comfort.
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