Happy Passover!
As some of you might know, this Saturday night began the Jewish holiday of Passover, also called Pesach. During this time the entire family gets together on the first two nights and holds a seder. This is a very long ritual dinner consisting of at least three hours of praying and reading and pretending to pray and pretending to read and lots of wine drinking such that those actually praying and reading don’t pay much attention to those who are pretending.
This is also the time of year that we eat things sweet and bitter, to remind us of both the good and the bad times. It is a celebration of freedom from being slaves in Egypt that is detailed in the Exodus – or if you are a bit lazy with reading in The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston. This year, as with every year, we celebrated Pesach at my wife’s parents’ house, and of course my mother in law made sure that food was not scarce.
