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Mah Nishtanah

Apr 12, 2011 22:28

Tatte, I want to ask you the four questions...

The first question is why on all the other nights of the year, our house looks normal, but today the kitchen looks like an alien spaceship has landed, has landed.

The second question is why on all the other nights of the year, we eat normal vegetables and fruit but tonight mommy has peeled the ( Read more... )

holier-than-thou, pesach

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My new method this year tesyaa April 14 2011, 02:27:09 UTC

Shampoo, that's a new one to me. The chametz in my house doesn't get near my shower. And I'm fairly sure you'd get very sick if you drank shampoo. Does your husband help put down the aluminum foil?

Re: My new method this year onionsoupmix April 14 2011, 13:16:31 UTC

he puts the boiling water over the counters before I foil them ... so no.

Re: My new method this year shevh April 14 2011, 13:36:38 UTC

This is what I don't get-- if you're boiling water and kashering the counters, then they're kosher for pesach and don't NEED to be covered! If you're covering them with foil, ostensibly that means you are covering b/c they're chametz, so why BOTHER with the boiling water?
It's just craziness.

My father, who was a student of Rav Soloveitchik in semicha, says that you just have to clean the counters really well. The only point at which you would have a problem is if you dropped some hot chametz food on your counter during the year, then during pesach you dropped some hot food on the exact same spot and then you eat it. So really, just don't eat hot pesach food you drop on your counter.

anonymous April 14 2011, 05:20:19 UTC

I live in a state that was once part of Spain or Mexico or maybe Portugal or Morocco, so I figure it's okay to eat rice on Pesach. Hakol k' minhag hamidinah.

hamaskil April 17 2011, 23:41:01 UTC

And I live in a state which once was a part of Indian possession, so I figure it is okay to eat bread, as long as my chief approves :)

About the Walmart items anonymous April 14 2011, 18:51:41 UTC

I assume that you at least put the existing shampoos, etc. where you put the other chametz stuff stuff that gets "sold", so you don't have to toss it all ( ... )

Out-frumming the Gebrokts ext_229051 April 15 2011, 02:30:48 UTC

The fact is that everyone is trying to "out-frum" their friends and neigbors, for fear of being shunned by those who are "frummer" than themselves. It's an arms race to absurdity!

I may not be able to stop this mishegoss, but I at least can do that which is within my power to do. And someone does need to take a stand.

And so, I have decided that this Pesach, I refuse to eat at the home of anyone who DOES NOT serve gebrokts! If it means that it's just me and my wife at the seder, then so be it (and if my wife wants to eat at a non-gebroks friend's home (including the Rebbitzin), then I will go home and eat alone!

Re: Out-frumming the Gebrokts onionsoupmix April 15 2011, 02:32:10 UTC

I guess you and I will not be dining together :(