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Pesach reversal chaos

interesting how leading up to Pesach everyone prepares laboriously for the holiday. Weeks of planning and preparing for the switchover, for the cooking, for substantive and original Haggadah insights, occupy us . . . but, come motzei Pesach and in a flash, by the night’s end, you would never know that a historic Exodus from Egypt had just been re-enacted here for eight days. Growing up, after the intense melodious ne’ilat ha-chag — departure from the holiday — and then Havdalah, things ever so quickly shifted into high gear. Reversing all the temporary chametz free zones was underway. With the dishes, spices, cutlery and so much more, Pesach reversal chaos now took over. After a week of flatbreads and gluten free restrictions, the speed of it […]
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Tehilla Goldberg

IJN columnist | View from Central Park


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