The Importance of St. Patrick's Day

If you were raised in a culture or come from a family that took Christmas seriously, and then that gets either watered down or diluted or secularized. Of course, it is going to eat away at our identity. By sanctifying time, it's part of what it means to be holy, right? Because holiness involves not only goodness, but holiness involves separation. This by the way is the key to the Jewish longevity, you might say, or the survival of the Jewish people as Jews.