Excited For Jewish Thanksgiving?

that it's pretty clear for anyone with eyes and ears and a little bit of knowledge in the Torah that Jews celebrating Thanksgiving actually brings a lot of dean a lot of judgment to the world. And I'll tell you why. When we tell people, listen, Shabbat is coming. Shabbat Shabbat is coming. Many times, many times people say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, Shabbat, you know, Shabbat." like they don't understand what's the big deal of Shabbat. It's like it's every week. It's every week. What's the big deal of Shabbat? They don't look at it as uh the way they should. Even if they're religious, they don't necessarily always look at it the way they should. Many do, but not enough. Better yet, we say, "Oh, the holidays are coming. Pes is coming." Sometimes you'll see half the people, if not more, say, "Oh, Pes, oh man, I don't like this. I don't like this. I can't believe I have to prepare for this. I can't believe I have to do this. Now we have to clean. Now we have to eat matzah. Now we have to this. And people start complaining about the about the holiday that the kadosh gave us as a gift. They'd say, "Oh, yum kipu is coming. Oh, I'm so hungry." What? But it hasn't started yet. You're already hungry. And they start complaining about the holiday. Say, you know, most of the time we talk about Jewish holidays and people complain about them. Sometimes they're disappointed they're coming or they feel anxiety that they're coming. But yet when it comes Thanksgiving, no one feels anxiety. No one feels pressure. No one dislikes it. And I believe that this brings judgment to the Jewish people because his his holidays, his gifts that he gave us, we treat them as if they're like used products. But the product of the goim, we are we're celebrating. And many times people act as if they have a lot more fun during this Thanksgiving than they do on Sh or onip or even on they act like as if it's better. And it's there's a verse in the Torah that says to Jeremiah, he says that they they left me the wellspring of of pure water and replace me with a broken system. Broken sistns, places where there's little tiny little puddles of whatever is left over. Instead of the the living water that's endless from Hashem, we replace them with little puddles that we find in the streets. That's in essence when we replace the holiness and the kaduca of Shabbat and the celebration of our holidays that Hashem gave us. Whether it be Hanukkah or be pul or be even a yum kipoo as the says there's no better day for the Jewish people like yumipu. Even though you're fasting and even though it seems like it's bad, it's one of the greatest days for the Jewish people because that's the day that Hashem cleans us up. Well, if you're not excited about Yonkipu, but you're excited about Thanksgiving, I promise you this does not look good on your report card. It does not look good on your report card with Hashem because you're replacing you're replacing the the uh the sweet endless pure water of a broken sister. So, this Thanksgiving, I know that you know some of you are already used to it and you feel like maybe you're going to offend some people. I promise you, it's much better to offend people than to offend Hashem. Much better. It's better that you offend people by following Hashem than offend Hashem by following people. And you have to simply just give it up. Don't show up to these events. Don't show up, not even for a second. Now, go on the other hand, you that are, you know, not idol worshippers, but righteous goim that want to celebrate this holiday. Again, I think it's an ugly holiday. I think anyone that knows about the holiday thinks it's ugly holiday. Uh but even if you say no, no, we're not really celebrating it uh for what it's really about. We're just using this as an opportunity to get together with family. Yes, you have a uh you know, you have a permission to do it. But uh I personally would recommend choose a different day. Choose a different day. Don't do it on that day. Every year use a you know, do a different day. Instead of the 25th, do it 24th. Do it 26th. Do it 29. Do it on the 1st. Do it any other day. You don't have to necessarily do it the same day that all of this tuma, all of this impurity is coming to the world, you know. So, it's not a good day in the world. Needless to say, for and for anyone that's following Torah. So, it's I highly highly recommend that people forsake this holiday and simply abandon it and just stick to our holy Torah. go and use that time and resources and money and happiness to prepare for Shabbat, which is only 48 hours away. You know, go prepare for Shabbat. Go prepare for something good. Stop wasting your time eating a bunch of turkey on a day that a bunch of people died. It's not It's not a nice thing to do. It really is not a nice thing to do. It's like saying, you know, let's uh let's uh celebrate the day that your mom died. Let's celebrate the day that your wife died, your cousin died. You're this. Who wants to do that? It's not nice. So that's the thing. You have to look at it from other people's perspective also. Even though you don't know them and and so on, it's just not a good day for Jews. It's it's it's a horrible thing as says it's uh at least of of at least it's the dust of Abu if not Feinstein said it's completely forbidden. Now I'm sure that some of you are going to find some rabbi big or small say no it's a nice day. It's a nice day. Listen, the way we go with is we go with the dole. We go with the biggest of and the best. That's who we go by. We don't go with someone else that said something. We go with who's the biggest who is the one that isal is followed. Now, if you are your this, you have your everybody's got their they're their giant sage. If your giant sage, if your holy sage said something different, that's one thing. But I highly doubt he did. Why? Because again it it's clear it's clear that this is not something that's good for us. It's not something that's good for us. Uh there's enough judgment in the world already today. Uh there's no need to bring more. Uh you know you see simply that uh you know judgment is such a scary thing that even the the biggest sadikim in history was scared of it. Even the biggest sadikim in history was scared of it. I mean just look at the whole issue with you know the there was a question that was asked re uh you know earlier today someone asked how come how come a uh a and both used the same tactic to deal with aime when they went to his country and uh they pretended as if their wives were really their sisters didn't they have amuna has nothing to do with not having amuna so has nothing to do with so why did lie Why? It didn't technically wasn't a lie, but even if you want to say that it wasn't exactly 100% true, why did do it? Why did say that is a sister? Why did his son do the same thing? Why did he say why did they say that their wives are their sisters and not their wives? Now the puk itself says the puk the verse over there says to me I told you that she was my sister because I was afraid that since I saw that there was no here there's no fear of heaven here you nobody's afraid of god here they'll kill me once they find out she's my sister and the same and and the the says the uncleilos says that uh itakabinu just followed the footsteps of his father he knew the story he knew what what his father did when a situation presented itself and he followed the footsteps of his father. Is there better footsteps than Abraham? So he followed it. So is that have to do with them not having? No. First and foremost, there is no reason to put yourself in danger. There's no reason to put yourself in danger. If you see that there's a bunch of crazy people that are not afraid of God that are are surrounding you, there's no reason for you to just say, "Oh yeah, I'm a I'm a Jew." There's no reason for you to do that. There's no reason for you to scream that you're a Jew surrounded by a bunch of people that are Nazis. There's simply no reason for it. Why are you putting yourself in danger? You could just simply do what we talked about last night in the Mashik, the era of Mashiah by which is you're pre you're at clear danger over there. They're stronger than you. What do you do? Run away. Go away. That's what you got to do. In this case, a could not run away. What other option did he have? His option was to just simply lie about it and just pray to Hashem that he takes him out of this situation. And it's this is what the Torah wants. Toah does not want you to put yourself in a situation where in essence you're forcing God's hand to give you a miracle because you put yourself in danger. We're not allowed to do such things. So it's very important to know that this is had the highest level of connection to Hashem, but yet they themselves knew that if you're surrounded by danger, there's a way to deal with it. And a strategy, what's a strategy? Run away from it. Don't don't face it face to face. There's no reason for that. If Hashem wants to deal with it, he'll deal with it on his terms, not the ones that you give him. The second thing is is that Davididenu, all of the righteous people that we have mentioned in our Torah, they weren't so confident about their own merit account. Says that he's a dust and ashes says we're nothing. Not even dust and ashes. We're absolutely nothing. says, you know, says he's a worm and not a person. Ahu is saying that he's a he's already all the merits and the good and and the blessings that Hashem gave him is already more than he deserves. So, it's not that they were some self-conscious losers or something like that, but rather they weren't so confident about their merits. Why? because they saw that everything that Hashem gave them is a blessing. Whether it's viewed as good or bad by the people doesn't make a difference. Everything he's given them is a blessing. And maybe all of these blessings are already they see it's already more than perhaps what they deserve. So to put themselves in a situation where they have to spend, if you will, those blessings to get themselves saved out of a situation is not a good idea. And a person needs to understand that doesn't owe us anything. He doesn't owe us anything. He is the king. We owe him everything. So to go out there and uh put ourselves in a situation where we think, "Oh no, you know what? I'm going to celebrate this this Thanksgiving and uh but because I do enough because I I I do and uh I go to and I give so Hashem's going to forgive me for this thanksgiving." Don't be so sure of your merits to say that you could just freely make sins. Especially when it's going against the said don't do it said don't do it. You're going to go up to Shamim. You're going to see one of these that you went against as the dan for your dean for your dean. He's going to be the head judge for your for your He's going to decide he's going to decide whether you have or not. Is a person is a person really that confident in themselves to put themselves in a situation like that? No one should ever be that confident, you know. So the key is to understand there are certain things that Torah says you have to stay away from. You have to stay away from. This is one of those things that you have to stay away from. It's a it's not for Jewish people. And again, it's a uh if you want to eat turkey, eat it on a different day. You could eat it a day before, a day after, a week after. You can eat it every single day. Just don't do it that day. Why? Because once you do it that day, you connect to the tuma, to the kipa that is from that day. And that's not something that you want in your life. It's simply not. We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless.