Pesach Ba

It is officially the Passover (in Hebrew, Pesach) season. While this means that I have two weeks to cruise around, it is also the time for unleavened bread and seder meals has come. Consequently, since I do not particularly like matzah bread, I'll be sticking with the usual pita and sitch.

Passover brings with it a time of intense spring cleaning. Depending on the level of ones observance of Jewish law, you can ignore the avoidance of bread, or you can wipe away any trace of bread crumbs that may be in your home. Some people just choose to wrap the surfaces of their kitchen in tin foil. That's much easier.

Grocery stores have labeled the items that are kosher for Passover and some even cover the bread aisle just in case you thought about going for a Jewish Rye. Even some restaurants substitute their usual items for "Pesach friendly" meals. At fast rood joints, this means Matzaburgers and Matzacrust pizza. You can trust that I will try all of it (but I can't promise It'll be good).

In addition to all the usual fanfare, this Pesach is special because it happens to fall on the same day as the once-every-28-years Birkat Hachama festival (a coincidence that has only happened twice in the last 600 years). Apparently when the two coincide, it is a "potential harbinger of a redemptive event of cosmic proportions", and I would have to agree: in 1925, the previous instance of overlapping, the Great Gatsby was published two days later. And the time before that, 1309 CE, we all know what happened: the Earls of Northumberland bought Alnwick Castle! So even though the event happens at 3 am, I'll definitely be there.

More after it goes down...