It is related that once a gentile put the question to Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai. “We have festivals and you have festivals. We have Calends, Saturnalia and Kratesis, and you have Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Which is the day whereon on we and you have festivals and rejoice alike?”
Rabbi Yohanan replied. “It is the day when the rain falls. For it is said, “The meadows are clothed with flocks, the valleys are covered with corn. They should shout for joy, they sing. What follows? The Psalm, “Shout unto God all the earth.” -Rabbi Jacob Chinitz
That which every human being possesses is a capacity for appreciation. This is a gift from us to every person.
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