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Thread #20524   Message #215874
Posted By: Mark Cohen
21-Apr-00 - 09:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Have a Happy Passover!
Subject: RE: BS: Have a Happy Passover!
Just got this forwarded from my sister in Massachusetts. Seems to fit right in with the 'Cat.

Hi everyone,

If you haven't seen these floating around the net yet...enjoy!

Chag Sameach, Marcy

THERE'S NO SEDER LIKE OUR SEDER (Sung to the tune of "There's No Business like Show Business")

There's no seder like our seder
There's no seder I know
Everything about it is Halachic
Nothing that the Torah won't allow
Listen how we read the whole Haggadah
It's all in Hebrew
Cause we know how.
There's no seder like our seder
We tell a tale that is swell:
Moses took the people out into the heat
They baked the matzah
While on their feet
Now isn't that a story
That just can't be beat?
Let's go on with the show!

JUST A TAD OF CHAROSET
("Spoonful of Sugar")

Chorus:
Just a tad of charoset helps the bitter herbs go down
The bitter herbs go down, the bitter herbs go down.
Just a tad of charoset helps the bitter herbs go down,
In the most disguising way.

Oh, back in Egypt long ago,
The Jews were slaves under Pharaoh.
They sweat and toiled and labored through the day.
So when we gather Pesach night,
We do what we think right.
Maror, we chew,
To feel what they went through!

(Chorus)

So after years of slavery
They saw no chance of being free
Their suffering was the only life they knew.
But baby Moses grew up tall,
And said he'd save them all.
He did, and yet,
We swear we won't forget.
That....(chorus)

While the maror is being passed
We all refill our water glass,
Preparing for the taste that turns us red.
Although maror seems full of minuses,
It sure does clear our sinuses!
But what's to do?
It's hard to be a Jew!
So...(chorus)

GEULAH'S EXODUS
("Gilligan's Island" Theme)

Recline right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip.
That started many years ago in ancient, old Egypt.
We Jews were forced to work as slaves, they suffered an ordeal.
We celebrate our Exodus with a three hour meal,
a three hour meal!
The Pharoah was an evil man, his wrath had just begun
If not for the effort of the fearless Jews...
we'd be worshipping the sun. (2x)

They landed in the desert after parting the Yam Suf
With Moshe...and with Aharon too,
each Israelite and his wife --
With Betzalel, with Nachshon and Miriam
here on Passover night!

Congregation Eitz Chayim, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Wish I knew who the author was! A bit of a gloss: Halachic = according to the law and tradition. Charoset = a mixture of apples, nuts, and wine, symbolizing the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves when building for the Egyptians. At one point in the Seder, it is mixed with maror = bitter herbs, usually (hot) horseradish, and eaten as a sandwich with matzah. Yam Suf = Red Sea (literally, Reed Sea, which was evidently garbled somewhere along the line).

Aloha,
Mark