BS: Happy Passover

Subject: BS: Happy Passover
From: Suffet
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 10:28 AM

Shalom,

No polemics. No politics. No shameless self-promotion. Just...

HAPPY PASSOVER!

The Jewish celebration of deliverance from slavery begins at sundown tonight.

--- Steve (a/k/a Shlomo Ben-Yosef Ha-Shofit)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Azizi
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 10:36 AM

Peace to you too, Steve. Thanks for posting this. I didn't know that it was Passover.

I join you in saying "Happy Passover!"

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 10:41 AM

A sweet Passover to all who celebrate it. And thank you, Schlomo.
--Yonah ben Avraham

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Beer
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 10:45 AM

Here here, a very Happy Passover to all my friends who celebrate it.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 10:53 AM

Count me in.

GO PASSOVER!

(Too much hockey I guess.)

;~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 11:22 AM

Celebrate well.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 11:46 AM

Be happy and lucky.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 12:36 PM

G-d said to Moses, "I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that I'm going to part the Red Sea and you'll all be able to go through on dry land."

"What's the bad news?"

"You have to write the Environmental Impact Statement..."

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During one of my many trips to London, I became friends with a very wealthy, yet very modest, Jewish chap named Hyman Goldfarb. On one visit, Hy told me that because of his large donations to charities through the years, the queen wanted to knight him, but he was going to turn it down.

"That's a great honor," I said. "Why would you turn it down?"

"Because during the ceremony you have to say something in Latin," he said. "And I don't wish to bother studying Latin just for that."

"So say something in Hebrew. The queen wouldn't know the difference."

"Brilliant," Hy complimented me, "but what should I say?"

"Remember that question the son asks the father on the first night of Passover? ... Can you say that in Hebrew?"

"Of course," he said. "Ma nishtana ha leila hazeh. Thank you, old sport, I shall become a knight."

At the ceremony Hy waited his turn while several of the other honorees went before the queen. Finally they called his name. He knelt before Her Majesty, she placed her sword on one shoulder and then on the other, and motioned for Hy to speak.

Out came "Ma nishtana ha leila hazeh."

The queen turned to her husband Prince Philip and said, "Why is this knight different from all the other knights?"

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Best Pesach wishes to y'all.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 02:46 PM

Merry and Blessed Passover to all who celebrate it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Apr 08 - 05:51 PM

Happy Passover!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 10:05 AM

happy Passover

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 11:01 AM

One of the things I miss living in Maine is the Passover Sedeh with friends down the street and the Children's Sedeh for little ones in our co-op.

Happy Passover.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: bobad
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 11:11 AM

חג פסח שמח

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Cats
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 11:58 AM

Blessed and peaceful Passover to those who celebrate it.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Suffet
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 12:53 PM

Basic Jewish holiday story...

First they welcomed us. Then they changed their minds and tried to kill us. They failed. We won. Let's eat!

Many variations exist.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 12:58 PM

Happy Passover and may God bless New Isreal

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 08:32 PM

Howdja do that, Bobad? That's neat.

Donuel, what is New Israel? This is not a term with which I am familiar. It sounds like something Messianic, or something supercessionist. Is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: bobad
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 08:58 PM

JotSC, I just copy/pasted it from this site: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_hebrew/linguistics/1011384-happy_passover.html

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 09:17 PM

Cool! But I'd have been even more impressed had you written it yourself. :>]

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 09:27 PM

Shalom...Peace

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Suffet
Date: 06 Apr 12 - 08:28 PM

HAPPY PASSOVER!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 12 - 08:53 PM

Well, when you you have nothing in your hand, maybe a dry five, you say, "I'll passover to my partner."

Part of an Auction 45 joke, kinda.

Joking aside, it's a wonderful celebration of many things. Peace, love and celebration to all those who take this occasion to reflect upon family, friends, faith and life itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Apr 12 - 10:10 PM

Shalom...and Happy Passover!

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Apr 12 - 11:17 PM

Happy Passover from me, too!

I just got home from a Seder at the home of some friends. It is the second time they have invited me. We met at Stone Soup Coffeehouse!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: EBarnacle
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 12:57 AM

A zissen Pesach to all of us and a better one next year. Next Year in Yerushekayim!
Elchanon ben Shimon

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 01:43 AM

Good Pesach, everyone!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Passover
From: GUEST,EBarnacle
Date: 07 Apr 12 - 04:33 PM

Yesterday, my sister called in sick for the seder. The charoses was one of her jobs so I made do with ingredients at hand:

Cashews, about 1 cup
Fresh dates, 8 to 10
Honey, two teaspoons
Good non sweet red wine, about 4 ounces

Chopped the dates after removing the pits.
Ground the cashews with a mortar and pestle.
Combined everything in a bowl
Let sit for 2 hours.

No leftovers among 4 people.
It could have been served immediately but the extra time allowed the ingredients to "work together."