{"id":52272,"date":"2020-04-08T07:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52272"},"modified":"2020-04-08T07:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T13:39:25","slug":"narrow-pharaoh-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52272","title":{"rendered":"Narrow, Pharaoh Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spring and the Corona Luna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday gratefuls: The garbage collectors. Zaidy&#8217;s Deli for Seder fixings. Jewcy for the Haggadah. Kate&#8217;s no leak bandage routine. Seoah&#8217;s potato and sausage soup. New kabbalah class starting today. Learning and the ability to learn. Books. Printing presses. Newspapers. The much maligned, but oh so important news media. Diane&#8217;s willingness to get up early to talk. Mark and Mary in month long lock downs (of varying strictures). Gov. Polis and Mayor Hancock (Denver) for stepping up. Jeffco, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s the idiot up to now? That&#8217;s how I think of my first look at the news when I get up. These days though I find the question moot. He already did it by screwing up the testing, playing keep away with the national stockpile of medical equipment, and blaming, blaming, blaming rather than acting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Prine died. One of my favorite musicians. Hello in There. Angel from Montgomery. Ballad of Sam Stone. An American original like Bob Dylan, who was a fan of John&#8217;s. Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RfwGkplB_sY\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Passover starts tonight. Easter is on Sunday. Zaidy&#8217;s Deli in Denver, performing a mitzvah, offered takeaway Seder boxes with matzo, Manischewitz blackberry wine, brisket, haroset and other sides, items for the seder plate. Rigel and I drove over to CBE yesterday to pick up our order. Eve, the executive director at CBE, had put haggadahs in there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many synagogues, most, I imagine, CBE will hold a virtual Passover meal on Thursday night. We&#8217;ll use the Jewcy Haggadah, the ritual for the service. It has the famous four questions including how is this night different from all other nights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary purpose of Passover is to recount to children the foundational story of the Hebrew slaves and their liberation from Egypt. Kids hunt for the hidden afikoman, a piece of matzah, and get a reward if they find it. They also hear about all the plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, sing songs, and generally have a good time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passover brings many friends and family, including a Gentile or two or more, into a bubbe&#8217;s home. Not this year. The story with the plagues has been changed by a plague. The irony has not been missed. Many of our friends are sad because this is a joyous occasion, a time to celebrate, and not having folks in the house will seem very strange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At passover we move from a narrow place, a narrow pharoah mind, to an expansive place, the Promised Land. Rabbi Jamie in last week&#8217;s morning prayers, Maladies and Melodies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring and the Corona Luna Wednesday gratefuls: The garbage collectors. Zaidy&#8217;s Deli for Seder fixings. Jewcy for the Haggadah. Kate&#8217;s no leak bandage routine. Seoah&#8217;s potato and sausage soup. New kabbalah class starting today. Learning and the ability to learn. Books. Printing presses. Newspapers. The much maligned, but oh so important news media. Diane&#8217;s willingness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Narrow, Pharaoh Mind<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1450,1980,4391,4314,4381,4252,4317,3996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-on-religion","category-commentary-on-the-news","category-coronavirus","category-jefferson-county","category-judaism","category-music-2","category-shadow-mountain","category-third-phase-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52273,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52272\/revisions\/52273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}