Thanksgiving has much in common with the festival of Sukkot.The Bible was an important book for the early American settlers. They named their children Benjamin, Joshua, and Rachel after people in the Bible, and called their towns Sinai, Canaan, and Jordan after places in the Bible.
The pilgrims compared their voyage to America to the Exodus from Egypt. The Atlantic Ocean was their Red Sea, and America was their Promised Land. In 1621, when they gathered to give thanks for a good harvest after a hard year in the New World, the settlers were reminded of the Biblical holiday of Sukkot, and created their own harvest festival.
Is your celebration of Sukkot similar to your celebration of Thanksgiving? How?
Excerpt from All AboutSukkot by Judyth Groner and Madeline Wikler
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