Thanksgirin

Two children in Brooklyn were
discussing Thanksgiving Day. One
asked the other. "Is Thanksgiving
one day or two:"'
The older one replied, "Well.
orthodox Jews keep two days. the
Reform only one."
Actually, the first Thanksgiving
Day. according to the historians,
Nl a< more like' the Orthodox. It
‘i i•elebrated for three days. If
the Pilgrims had been real Ortho
dos. they would probably have
made it eight (lays like Sukkot or
Festival of Tabernacles. There is a
legend that Thanksgiving w a s
inodeled after the' Sukkot festival.
But the Pilgrims were conserva-
tke. so they compromised and
made it not eight and not one. but
thrve

Everyone. of course, has a
warm snot fur the Pilgrim fathers.
especially must have one for
the passengers who came on the
M ay flower.
Nloyflower brought the
The
first shadhan to America -- John
Alden. Longfellow told us how
ThIcs Standish asked John Alden
he his shadhan with lovely
iu
Priscilla. So John Alden went h.
see Priscilla. Priscilla at first
thought Alden came to collect for
the yeshiva. Then John Alden told
Fier he had a nice match for her,
the brave Miles Standish. Priscilla
"Why don't you speak for
yourself, John?"
And when John Alden came
back and told abOut it. Standish
. said. "I should have known bet-
ter" and he quoted the famous
Yiddish saying "Man shikt nit die

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

12-Friday, November 28, 1969

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

Influences

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(Copyright 1969, JTA, toe.)

A distinction that does not fur- I Too many moralists begin with

It was a very good point and we ther understanding is no distinc- a dislike of reality: a dislike of
think more headway could be tion-Goethe.
men as they are.-Clarence Day.
made in the current movement
against tobacco if the idea was
emphasized. Think of a commer-
cial like the following:
I USED TO SMOKE THREE
PACKS DAILY
I GAVE IT UP AND NOW CAN
READ A HEBREW NEWSPAPER
Who wouldn't be influenced? It
is the substitution of a positive
incentive against that of a nega-
tive one. Of course, health is very
important, even of paramount im-
portance, but people are psycho-
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logically more moved by sonic
hope of added gain rather than
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by fear of a loss.
Coming hack ti the Hebraic in-
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The first was Increase Mather.
the life of Moses played a part in
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The name Increase is probably an
the life of the early settler. For
English rendering of the Hebrew instance when Cotton Mather was
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name. Joseph, which means in-
growing up. his hopes of becoming
crease. When Increase Mather
a minister like his father seemed
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Moses stammered. Moses over-
Mather. Cotton is Hebrew for
came his speech defect. so Mather
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was inspired to do likewise.
Cotton Mather like his father,
It all points up to this: Thanks-
studied Hebrew and was one of
giving is a time not only for pump-
the most zealous in urging its
kin pie but for studying Hebrew!
study on others. In his day, more
and more people were beginnin,
to smoke tobacco. and Cotton
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katz nosh die smetene." (You ,
don't send the cat after the
cream.
Well, anyway, if the Mayflower
passengers didn't speak Yiddish,
we do know for a fact that at least
two of them were Hebrew schol-
ars. John Bradford, the governor
of Plymouth, and William Brews-
ter.
Bradford was frequently alluded
to as the Moses of the colony.
Moses was highly revered by these
first American settlers. The law
of the colony was spoken of ti-
the "Moses judicials" and these
first American halutzim liked to
give their children Hebrew names.
A good illustration of the Hebraic
influence was the Mather famil y .

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