I know that Pesach is one of those holidays that many people just love to hate. The cleaning, the constipation and the long drawn out meal which consists of hours of telling the same old divrei torah and stories year after year. I myself feel the same way, and seriously if not for the Pesach seder footsie and hosts dressing up in costumes and crazy songs, I may be getting the Pesach seder blues like I have all the years until last.
With hopes for some more Pesach seder footsie and cool songs, I found this other item online called Elijahs Cup, for all of you frummies who don’t know who Elijah is, he is that guy that every Jewish ghost story is based on and the dude who is supposed to drink from the cup of wine placed in the middle of your seder table – (if the cup falls at a chabad house – you will see the chabad Hazmat team kick into gear to prevent any matzo crumbs from becoming leavened) Elijah is also known as Eliyahu.
Marc Jaffe who is a stand up comedian and writer for Mad Tv and Seinfeld came up with the idea for Elijah Drinks which is a silver kiddush cup that drinks itself. I guess its a good way to keep bored pesach seder blues people like myself happy. I bet you it works great on kids too, oh and I got one to bring to my seders as a gift.
Here’s a video of the cup.
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I don’t care what anyone else says. I love Pesach and I love matzah. Pesach is my favorite holiday. Yes you have to clean, suck it up, it’s 8 days of fun food in a change of pace!
I just wish I was Sefardic so I could have me some original Soft Matzah and make my Hillel burrito.
hah! that cup is really funny! how does it work?
~~for the hillel burito, why not just make matzoh brie really thin and use that?
Don’t worry folks I have a post coming up about how people are starting to reject the BS of kitnyot
But waiting half the night for some charosses is all worth it…
Um, maybe if we pulled out the good stuff instead of nasty Kedem and Manischevitz, Elijah would bother putting in an appearance. “Kosher L’Pesach” does not have to mean bad wine.
Who wants to waste the good stuff on something that just sits there?
i’ve been trying to do some research on how this cup works, and i can’t really find anything…is the cup yuntif-friendly? is there a possibility that it’s electric?
“chabad Hazmat team” – my wife is looking at me funny wondering why I’m giggling so hard!
So this year will be my first Pesach seder, I’m looking forward to it.
Kitnyos isn’t BS, it actually makes some good sense from a few standpoints.
Banning things like Garlic forever because it was packaged with flour at some point in some place – that’s lame.
Worrying about Gebroks on things for which it is impossible to ever rise (thin, cooked matzah) – that’s lame.
But for Kitnyos, while desirable, I can deal with the ban.
Unfortunately, I can’t make it to the part where Eliyahu drinks the wine; I’m asleep before the meal.
By the time Elijah gets to my place, he is already too drunk to drink, but he comes in to rest.
I’m asleep before the meal but I always seem to wake up
While Pesach is my least favorite holiday, I’m coming up with all these things that are making it better like eating steak on chol hamoed every day. Also, I do not eat very much matzo so, I don’t get constipated. You only have to eat it at the seder.
http://www.elijahdrinks.com/press
Oh, the link was for Jalen who couldn’t find anything.