59\u00a0 bar rises 29.84 1mph\u00a0NE dewpoint 46 Spring<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing<\/p>\n
Kate and I observed a tradition thousands of years old tonight.\u00a0 We got out the Haggadh, put the horseradish, cilantro, haroset, boiled egg and lamb bone (we substituted a chicken leg.) on a Seder plate.\u00a0 A small egg shaped cup held the salt water, the Elijah cup stood ready for his return.\u00a0 We had matzoh and we hid the aphikomon for the dogs.\u00a0 They were, as the passover ritual suggests, children unable to inquire.\u00a0\u00a0 We worked together within the limitations of our planning and availability of certain goods to produce a meal, to read the Seder ritual and retell the timeless story of enslavement and liberation, the Exodus.<\/p>\n
This Haggadh, the language and shape of the Seder laid out in book form, is hopeless.\u00a0 It is sexist in the extreme; sexist where no law of faith requires it.\u00a0 Kate suggested I write one of my own and I just might.<\/p>\n
It is a little strange for me, metaphysically speaking, to participate in this ritual with solemnity, which aspects of it requires.\u00a0 Once I get in the flow of it though the ritual and the language and the songs blend together and become a hymn to the life of a people and their relationship with their highest and best sense of themselves.\u00a0 It is a story\u00a0which acknowledges human frailty as well as longing for the divine, bravery as well as fear.\u00a0 It is their story, but also our story.\u00a0 Bondage, liberation and the struggle for freedom belong not just to the Jews, but to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
59\u00a0 bar rises 29.84 1mph\u00a0NE dewpoint 46 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing Kate and I observed a tradition thousands of years old tonight.\u00a0 We got out the Haggadh, put the horseradish, cilantro, haroset, boiled egg and lamb bone (we substituted a chicken leg.) on a Seder plate.\u00a0 A small egg shaped cup held the … Continue reading A Tradition Thousands of Years Old<\/span>