Passover

Note: offensive Jewish humor to follow:
I think that Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) must have written "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" about Passover. Passover actually commemorates the Jews escape from Egypt, but it strikes me that rather than all of the Whos down in Whoville, it could easily have been all of the Jews down in Jewville (Mitzrayim/Egypt same-same). Pharoh (the Grinch), tries to take something from the Whos/Jews and they strike back. In the case of Passover, there are plagues (10), whereas in The Grinch, the Whos simply celebrate without, and if you look at the Jews back in Exodus, they escaped and ran around the dessert for forty years and ate unleavened bread, so it seems like a similar enough story.

Anyway, tonight my Jews gathered in Tiburon for an unconventional, Seuss-like Seder. We played "Jewpardy", where we had a board with categories (and dollar values) and we had to state the question: I'll take Numbers for 200: ingredients in Matzoh. "What is the number two Alex?" YES! I'll take Potpourri for 400 please: fluffy balls floating in broth. "What is a matzoh ball Alex?" DING DING DING, CORRECT!!!

We sang songs, we ate, and then we ate some more. It was a raucous affair, but fun and joyous - because, why not? (farvos nish) We were spared (again), and as we say in our family, "Next year in Tiburon."