Monday, April 18, 2011
Apr. 18th, 2011 11:00 pmHappy Passover!
Tonight is the night of the first Seder. And for the next eight days I won’t eat anything with flower, corn or rice. So no bread for me. So mostly vegetable and lots of potatoes and lots of mazza. And that means bringing my own lunch everywhere. My parents and I do have a very basic Seder. We make mazza ball soup and have the fish and salad and egg. I made a Seder plate. I actually have a nice Haggada, a book that tells the ritual of the Seder meal (seder means order) with all different blessing and recounting the story of Moses. Passover is the recollection of the Exodus from Egypt but we talk of it as if it is happening to us right now. But my parents are impatient for the whole ritual. But that is OK, since my friends and I have a tradition of Seder on the Saturday of Passover, where we cook and cook and cook and then I lead the Seder in all its glory.
We always had some sort of meal around Passover/Easter time and I remember eating mazza when I was little. But my first real Seder happened when I was in London in 2000 for study abroad. All the Jewish students from the program, maybe ten of us, gathered for it and I enjoyed it a lot. In grad school, I started going to Chabad House for it. When I moved into my own apartment in 2005, I started hosting my own Seder and when I moved back home, I organized a Seder with my friends and since then we have it every year. I’m very much looking forward to Saturday.
I gave a lecture on Black Death today and then we had a discussion on the readings. Black Death lecture always goes over well. I postponed their Paper 2 because I didn’t finish grading Paper 1 yet, not that they minded. I did spent the morning grading Paper 1. Will do more Wednesday and Friday.
I caught up with “Brothers and Sisters” Poor Nora, she can never catch a break with any guys. That is a great plot twist with Michelle and Kevin and Scotty. I’m looking forward to it.
( House S7E19 )
Tonight is the night of the first Seder. And for the next eight days I won’t eat anything with flower, corn or rice. So no bread for me. So mostly vegetable and lots of potatoes and lots of mazza. And that means bringing my own lunch everywhere. My parents and I do have a very basic Seder. We make mazza ball soup and have the fish and salad and egg. I made a Seder plate. I actually have a nice Haggada, a book that tells the ritual of the Seder meal (seder means order) with all different blessing and recounting the story of Moses. Passover is the recollection of the Exodus from Egypt but we talk of it as if it is happening to us right now. But my parents are impatient for the whole ritual. But that is OK, since my friends and I have a tradition of Seder on the Saturday of Passover, where we cook and cook and cook and then I lead the Seder in all its glory.
We always had some sort of meal around Passover/Easter time and I remember eating mazza when I was little. But my first real Seder happened when I was in London in 2000 for study abroad. All the Jewish students from the program, maybe ten of us, gathered for it and I enjoyed it a lot. In grad school, I started going to Chabad House for it. When I moved into my own apartment in 2005, I started hosting my own Seder and when I moved back home, I organized a Seder with my friends and since then we have it every year. I’m very much looking forward to Saturday.
I gave a lecture on Black Death today and then we had a discussion on the readings. Black Death lecture always goes over well. I postponed their Paper 2 because I didn’t finish grading Paper 1 yet, not that they minded. I did spent the morning grading Paper 1. Will do more Wednesday and Friday.
I caught up with “Brothers and Sisters” Poor Nora, she can never catch a break with any guys. That is a great plot twist with Michelle and Kevin and Scotty. I’m looking forward to it.