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Passover Wrap Up
Wellp, Passover officially over and Passover officially is not fun. It all starts out so fine and dandy with family and friends over the traditional Seder, but quickly rears its ugly ahead into bread prohibition which means hunger and suffering. You’d think that since the Jews have suffered enough over history that we wouldn’t have to endure 8 more days of not living like the rest of society.
Hey Jews, its not like we aren’t singled out enough already, so let’s also add on rules that will make us alienated more.
Oh, what was that? You stud. You have a date with a lovely lady? Ok, well that’s awesome, but now you have to explain to her that you can basically only eat salads. Great.
Oh, so there is a baseball game featuring your favorite team who you haven’t watched play yet, so you travel 2 hours to get to the game, and you can’t drink beer or have a hot dog? Yeah, that’s ideal. It is a completely viable option though to fork and knife a hot dog out of its bun while sipping on soda. Perfect day at the ballpark.
Oh, so you get to the office after a morning workout and really want breakfast, but can’t have pretty much anything? No problem. Just grab two pieces of Matzoh, heat up a freezer-burned garden burger, and make a sandwich. Delicious.
I get the holiday. You make sacrifices as you reflect on what the Jews had to go through as they ran for freedom. The thing though, is that I am pretty sure after hearing the story every year of my life, that I understand the hardships the Jews went through during Passover. I saw the last 8 days as more of an annoyance than anything.
I do see it as an accomplishment though. But come on. How about we just go all out and rub lambs blood on our doors and throw frogs at each other to really learn what the Jews had to go through?
All in all, at least it was an interesting experience. I learned that in my mind I can make temporary changes to my lifestyle, and judging from how my stomach has been today, it will take some adjusting to get back to normal.
By next week, this site will be restored back to order with a new article Thursday, and hopefully my stomach will be back in order by then too.
Till then, love and peace and I will see you next week.
