From a friend:
GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE ALWAYS GATHER. THANKSGIVING IS A RELIGIOUS FEAST DAY... Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
The Pilgrims based their customs on Scripture.
Before coming to the New World, to avoid religious persecution, the Pilgrims lived for a short time among Sephardic Jews in Holland. In fact, our American Thanksgiving tradition may have been indirectly inspired by the Biblical holiday of Sukkot.
After the 53 Pilgrims had reaped their first harvest surviving many challenges with the help of Native Americans. They held a three-day celebration to give thanks. Ninety Wampanoag Native Americans joined in the feast.
The first Thanksgiving occurred during the fall of A.D. 1621. They gave thanks for their safety, for the health of their children, for the fertility of their fields, for the love which bound them together, and for the faith which united them with their God. The feast was held in early fall, around the time of the Feast of Tabernacles.
Both the Pilgrims and the Jews were victims of religious persecution. The Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492; they scattered and eventually settled in different parts of Europe and the Middle East. A small group of Jews made Holland their home. The Pilgrims escaped England in 1608 to avoid the increasing intolerance of their Separatist views by the Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of York. Both the Jews and the Pilgrims settled in Holland because of the country’s religious tolerance.
GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE ALWAYS GATHER. THANKSGIVING IS A RELIGIOUS FEAST DAY... Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
The Pilgrims based their customs on Scripture.
Before coming to the New World, to avoid religious persecution, the Pilgrims lived for a short time among Sephardic Jews in Holland. In fact, our American Thanksgiving tradition may have been indirectly inspired by the Biblical holiday of Sukkot.
After the 53 Pilgrims had reaped their first harvest surviving many challenges with the help of Native Americans. They held a three-day celebration to give thanks. Ninety Wampanoag Native Americans joined in the feast.
The first Thanksgiving occurred during the fall of A.D. 1621. They gave thanks for their safety, for the health of their children, for the fertility of their fields, for the love which bound them together, and for the faith which united them with their God. The feast was held in early fall, around the time of the Feast of Tabernacles.
Both the Pilgrims and the Jews were victims of religious persecution. The Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492; they scattered and eventually settled in different parts of Europe and the Middle East. A small group of Jews made Holland their home. The Pilgrims escaped England in 1608 to avoid the increasing intolerance of their Separatist views by the Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of York. Both the Jews and the Pilgrims settled in Holland because of the country’s religious tolerance.
