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…April 18 • 2019 5 jn T he number four plays an import- ant part in our sedarim. There are four questions, four sons, four cups of wine, etc. Here is some Passover humor that I found four-midable. (Now you know what’ s coming.) Children often hear things differently; take, for example, the young- ster who came home talking about unleaded bread. Then there was the angry uncle who fit right in at the table: He was a bitter Herb. Did...…
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…38 April 18 • 2019 jn continued on page 40 P assover lasts for a long time, especially when you’ re thinking about the food you’ ll eat. That’ s a lot of eating home-cooked fare and lots of matzah. Each year, I forget how much I like matzah brie … until Passover. Then I wonder why I don’ t make it all year long. I prepare it sweet for breakfast (soak matzah in a mixture of whisked eggs and milk — 1 egg and ½ cup of milk for every ma...…
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…42 April 18 • 2019 jn Matzah Madness W hether you’ re 9 years old or 90, you probably have a fond memory of the hiding of the afikomen during a Passover seder; whether you were the one charged with con- cealing it or if you’ re a kid who has enjoyed the reconnaissance mission in search of it. For our non-Jewish friends or the uniformed reader, afikoman is not the former Secretary General of the United Nations. That would be Kofi...…
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…44 April 18 • 2019 jn Matzah Madness continued from page 42 passover Passover Haggadot rewritten to incor- porate the hiding of the bitter herbs. I’ m looking forward to our family’ s two seders. And frankly, since I reg- ularly put my keys, glasses and cell phone somewhere where I can’ t find them; I will volunteer as the most qual- ified to hide the afikoman. As a matter of fact, I think I’ ll just hide my keys with the matzah and gi...…
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…I t is interesting that our portion for Shabbat of Passover, Exodus. 12:21-51, concludes with the making of matzah, and its Haftarah, from the Book of Joshua, concludes with eating it. The apparent progression — from making matzah to eating it — is linked through an upward trajectory. This sense of upward trajectory is also a leitmotif of the seder itself. The Mishnah offered an instruction for leading the seder. Mishnah Pesachi...…
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