Cleaning the house for Passover and getting the bedrooms ready for the guests who will be staying, and making and freezing soup and broth to assure it will be gluten free for those requiring gluten free, and there is still more than a week to go until the first seder. It’s the first time in many years, excluding the pandemic spent alone in front of a screen, that I will not be spending Passover in Florida. The family I visited there has moved to a place beyond Passover, and I am now, indisputably, the older generation. In much of my extended family, I am the oldest of the older generation. The good news is that I need not go to Florida, and the awful politics of Florida, ever again.
I, too, am now the oldest generation since my sister's death a year ago, now just my brother and me. But it was my sister who got the family together because she couldn't travel so we gathered around her for holidays. But be careful what you wish for--I was sad that I wouldn't be seeing family for Passover this year, my niece on a trip to Portugal, her brother in Japan. But due to a terrible car accident the night before she was to travel, she's now home recovering with broken ribs and a bruised sternum. So I will be seeing family next weekend, but definitely not the way I had hoped!
I'm impressed, Jessica, with you putting together a seder. I'm not a cook so it's not something I'd consider taking on. Wishing you a Happy Passover and civil discussions. (:
I've been relying on a two-minute Hagaddah for my recent Zoom Passover seders, always adding some contemporary elements. Last year someone clocked my addition as another 45 seconds. My daughter has a recovering alcoholic boyfriend, and she asked me to say "And now we raise a cup of wine or grape juice", so that he won't fall back into bad habits. In my activist/memoir I have a whole passages on the many seders I've experienced, including one I led in Berkeley where the only common ground for songs that people had - you have to sing during the seder - was....Buddy Holly songs. And a seder on the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War with only men and no women or children to ask the four questions, and everyone having different melodies for the songs. BUT WHY DO YOU SPELL IT MATZOH, AND NOT MATZAH???!!!
A very warm and familiar piece, thank you reminded me to order some goodies
I, too, am now the oldest generation since my sister's death a year ago, now just my brother and me. But it was my sister who got the family together because she couldn't travel so we gathered around her for holidays. But be careful what you wish for--I was sad that I wouldn't be seeing family for Passover this year, my niece on a trip to Portugal, her brother in Japan. But due to a terrible car accident the night before she was to travel, she's now home recovering with broken ribs and a bruised sternum. So I will be seeing family next weekend, but definitely not the way I had hoped!
I'm impressed, Jessica, with you putting together a seder. I'm not a cook so it's not something I'd consider taking on. Wishing you a Happy Passover and civil discussions. (:
A ziessen Pesach oichet Jessica.
Good question. Habit I suppose & avoiding too many A’s.
I've been relying on a two-minute Hagaddah for my recent Zoom Passover seders, always adding some contemporary elements. Last year someone clocked my addition as another 45 seconds. My daughter has a recovering alcoholic boyfriend, and she asked me to say "And now we raise a cup of wine or grape juice", so that he won't fall back into bad habits. In my activist/memoir I have a whole passages on the many seders I've experienced, including one I led in Berkeley where the only common ground for songs that people had - you have to sing during the seder - was....Buddy Holly songs. And a seder on the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War with only men and no women or children to ask the four questions, and everyone having different melodies for the songs. BUT WHY DO YOU SPELL IT MATZOH, AND NOT MATZAH???!!!