On Monday at sunset we will celebrate our Jewish Roots for the 27th year with a Passover Seder. We have a lot of memories over the years and I always look forward to eating this special meal with its unique foods and order of celebration. One of my favorite memories over the years is the hiding of the Afikomen matza. The Rabbi, or my husband in our home, places three pieces of matza (unleavened bread) in three pockets of a bag called the Afikomen. The Afikomen is placed on the table with other elements. At the beginning of the Seder, the rabbi removes the middle matza, breaks it in half, and hides the half in a linen napkin somewhere in the room. Towards the end of the night, just after the Seder meal is eaten, the rabbi turns to the youngest person, usually a child, and asks him to find the hidden matza. He then rewards the child usually with some chocolate candy. We’ve asked Jewish people why this is part of the ritual and most reply that they do not know what it represents. I’ve rea...
OH FUNNY! 2 feet of snow. HA! HA! And we DO get hurricanes so we would say the opposite. "At least we don't get blizzards. At least we don't get blizzards!" LOL!
ReplyDeleteHave a SUPER DUPER Happy Friday my friend.
Kim
Cute post, Mary. Our daughter-in-law is from Maine, but she and our son lived in the south several years after they were first married. God took them back to Maine and two years ago, the last picture you have on your post today was kept on Ellen's facebook page! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chuckles.
Oh Mary this is tooo funny! I would have loved to be able to drive around and gets pics of all the creative things people have done out of snow! It has been soo amazing to see!
ReplyDeleteVery funny, lol
ReplyDeleteMary,That is "Piles of Smiles".
ReplyDeleteHave wonderful Happy weekend.
~Jo
LazyonLoblolly
OK, Mary - I'm starting to feel a little guilty here in California.
ReplyDeleteThe two feet of snow cracked me up.
Thanks for always making me :)
GOD BLESS!
That is SnOw funny! LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd ditto what Kim said! I'll take the hurricanes; at least you can get away from them, and they don't hang around for months.
Have a JESUS-filled day! ^i^
Funny....especially the two feet of snow. Linda J.
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ReplyDeleteThank you.
In particular, that first photo was a hoot.