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Not the usual Passover post
Hi. I still exist and it's Passover week. Usually I post something pre-Passover. It's still my favorite holiday but I really wasn't feeling it this year. I kept thinking I'd post updates and then realizing they'd mostly be depressing so I didn't. 2020 sucked. And as we say about all Jewish holidays - they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat.
Last Passover we were hoping to be out of lockdown and able to socialize for this year's Seder. Not so much. We did have Pygment's (fully vaccinated) girlfriend as guest.
This year's Seder started with me reading a passage from the Haggadah intro that talked about the kittel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittel) a thing I'd never heard of. That prompted Pygment to go get my white lab coat (*) and me to remark: "I see we're having the silly Seder this year."
Other choice bits:
- I need someone to decolonize my Haggadah.
- Technicalities. But of course. It's Judaism so it's technicalities.
- So it starts with a kaiju frog.
- This is no such thing as immaculate liberation.
- The perfect set-up for intergenerational trauma.
- If you are without sin, you're supposed to go to Heaven. I'm so doomed.
- Rabbis made this shit up, and we admit rabbis made this shit up.
- An excuse to hang out with people I enjoy and have arguments. Yeah that's pretty much every Jewish holiday.
- Order of operations: attempt the thing, die, come back and get my corpse, try again with more planning.
We did have a pretty serious discussion about the Plagues this year, caused by Thing 2 asserting that they didn't understand why the Egyptians couldn't change their minds in the face of plagues. That Americans have just demonstrated in ample detail how resistant people can be to changing their minds in the face of an actual ongoing year-long plague was a little too on-point to ignore.
(*) What? You don't have mad scientist coats for everyone in your household? Not my fault, sorry.
Last Passover we were hoping to be out of lockdown and able to socialize for this year's Seder. Not so much. We did have Pygment's (fully vaccinated) girlfriend as guest.
This year's Seder started with me reading a passage from the Haggadah intro that talked about the kittel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittel) a thing I'd never heard of. That prompted Pygment to go get my white lab coat (*) and me to remark: "I see we're having the silly Seder this year."
Other choice bits:
- I need someone to decolonize my Haggadah.
- Technicalities. But of course. It's Judaism so it's technicalities.
- So it starts with a kaiju frog.
- This is no such thing as immaculate liberation.
- The perfect set-up for intergenerational trauma.
- If you are without sin, you're supposed to go to Heaven. I'm so doomed.
- Rabbis made this shit up, and we admit rabbis made this shit up.
- An excuse to hang out with people I enjoy and have arguments. Yeah that's pretty much every Jewish holiday.
- Order of operations: attempt the thing, die, come back and get my corpse, try again with more planning.
We did have a pretty serious discussion about the Plagues this year, caused by Thing 2 asserting that they didn't understand why the Egyptians couldn't change their minds in the face of plagues. That Americans have just demonstrated in ample detail how resistant people can be to changing their minds in the face of an actual ongoing year-long plague was a little too on-point to ignore.
(*) What? You don't have mad scientist coats for everyone in your household? Not my fault, sorry.
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https://opensiddur.org/compilations/table-guides-and-haggadot/passover-seder/haggadah-shir-geulah-song-of-liberation-by-emily-aviva-kapor/
We did have a pretty serious discussion about the Plagues this year, caused by Thing 2 asserting that they didn't understand why the Egyptians couldn't change their minds in the face of plagues. That Americans have just demonstrated in ample detail how resistant people can be to changing their minds in the face of an actual ongoing year-long plague was a little too on-point to ignore.
An awful lot of people object to various environmental catastrophes (ash blocking out the sun for weeks, water becoming undrinkable, massive crop failures) but don't have sufficient organization and power to fix the problem. Living in an absolute monarchy makes that sort of thing even harder.
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