Erev Pesach is not a time for satire or jokes. We can spend all year debating whether the ancient Hebrews really built the pyramids or whether they were in Egypt altogether; but on Erev Pesach we put all that aside…
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To host or not to host your own seder
We received our first invitation to a seder just before purim, normally I say yes, excited that someone actually wanted me at their seder and not the last minute desperate attempt to latch onto everyone’s already booked seders. However, this…
10 craziest kosher for Passover products
I was schooled last night by my wife who told me that makeup and cosmetics have to be kosher for pesach, whether or not this is the halacha or the social halacha determined by kashrus organizations wishing to scare everyone…
My first year making Pesach: My first year not craving any chometz
For the first time in my life I wasn’t craving chometz the entire pesach, this was also the first pesach that I “made”. Usually I go away for pesach and for the last couple of pesach’s I lived in places…
Kitnyot may be ridiculous, but you don’t meet many people who break the minhag
Everybody suddenly loves Quinoa on Pesach
Quinoa sucks and I’m sure most of you would agree, if it didn’t suck you’d have people eating it as is, like they do with rice, but instead quinoa is usually dressed up with all sorts of things to mask…
What does Pesach have to do with coming out of the closet?
I just got this in the mail and it actually makes sense that coming out of the closet is the LGBTQA (whatever happened to just LGBT, it’s getting too long to roll off your tongue) persons personal exodus. I’m sure…
Get a matzo case for your iPhone
I haven’t really gone on an anti-smart phone rant in some time and that’s a good thing, because just last week I became the last person in the first world to get a phone with a camera and internet. I…
Dude where the heck were you?
Usually when I abandon the blog for a week I announce it, but this time it just sorta happened. I was working my butt off up until the Wednesday before Pesach and I literally hopped out of work, dumped my…
Matzo available at McDonalds
Hat Tip to Dov Bear for finding this gem of a letter.
Possibly the dumbest pesach video ever
I love this video, probably because it’s terribly stupid. Find more pesach videos on 4torah.com
Stuff people say on Pesach
The never ending meme…
OU finally bans quinoa on Pesach
Quinoa has finally been banned to eat on Pesach, ending a debate that has lasted years and any need for vague statements on the grain that supposedly isn’t really a grain. It wasn’t expected that everyone in the OU would…
Why are Pesach hotels so expensive?
Trudging in the snow, it’s time for many orthodox Jews to celebrate their alleged holiday of freedom by parting with about $4000 per family member for some fancy Pesach hotel. (Do the math: including the flights, rental car, etc.) The…
The Quinoa Song
Despite the fact that I’ve been holed up in Boulder, Colorado for the last 6 days of yuntiff, I did not have any quinoa this Pesach – but I still want to make quinoa bread someday – Thanks to Ben…
I just had chometz
Now I have the song stuck in my head again, but it never gets old – another parody of I just had sex – this one awesome as well!
Pigging out on carpas
I’m fidgeting around, picking scabs, wondering how on earth I could gash my middle finger open on something as stupid as cleaning, when I’;m cutting, dicing and chopping all day long – basically my concentration is on anything besides the…
Passover 2011
More important than knowing where someone is, is to know from where they come; this allows one to better gauge the person’s current position as a function of where he or she began and where he or she intends to…
The best pesach videos
There are some very good pesach videos out there, here are a few of my faves. Guy discovers he’s not really sepahrdic and his Rosh tells him no kitnyot this pesach:
The dumbest passover product of the year
Each year around this time, inventive frum Jews try to see which ways they can scam a few of us by selling us ridiculous products for Pesach, everyone also wants to see how much frummer they can be about pesach…
Some pesach thoughts
Being a single guy I really don’t have to do much for Pesach, I spent a couple of hours cleaning my car, purchased a flight to Colorado for the last days and figured out where I would for the sedarim…
Pesach poetry that rocks
My friend Eliezer P. sent this over and I’m really down with it. Passover arrives, ushering in the spring solstice, We retell our affirmation of The Pact; our true Locus, Snow, now thawed, we are – in body – liberated…
Why is this night different from all other nights?
I always found the questions we’re supposed to ask on Pesach kind of annoying. Would children really ask all of those same old questions year after year if they weren’t taught to ask them in school? Would they really say…
Two days without phone or internet or chometz
I was on the internet for about 10 minutes after Yuntiff on Wednesday night, I immediately logged off and about 10 minutes ago I logged on and found a filled up email and facebook waiting for me. Yuntiff was a…
My first days of pesach were awesome
My nose was filled with sweet cologne as two men sat in back of me, I could smell them as soon as the door to sanctuary swung open, before they proceeded to sit down and insult my nose with their…