General Jewish Discussion

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Edit: this topic started as Pesach discussion, but now it's a general place for Jew! Feel lonely with all the Goyim around? Want to enjoy some old-fashioned Jewish chat, dotted with Hebrew and Yiddish words? This is the place for you!

The original message:

Since Pesach is right around the corner, and since I'm a little bored and think that it might be interesting to discuss some stuff here, I decided to start a thread. We can discuss here on how we're preparing for Pesach without clogging the TPBM thread like we did last year! And other random people that might be interested can come in too. I'll tag here the few people I remember that are Jews.

Anyway, random things: a. I, personally, am going to miss all the cleanings in my home, since I currently serve in the IDF. There'll be some cleaning here, too, though, and from what my brother told me, there wouldn't be chametz to eat for two weeks before Pesach. It might be somewhat annoying. But on the bright side, I don't have to go over the fridge with bleach, so yay! b. I thought I might just as well recommend a book for preparation for Pesach. One of the most interesting books I've read about Pesach is the Exodus You Almost Passed Over by rabbi David Fohrman, I recommend it. I'd have tried the books recommended to me by other Sharders, but I'm not sure that I want to wait for the books to come from abroad. What's nice about tEYAPO is that I can obtain it through kindle. The ones recommended then, to those who wish to know, were Let My Nation Go by Yosef Deutsch (recommended by @Bejardin1250) and Moses and the Path to Leadership by Rav Zvi Grumet (recommended by @Nathrangking).

What do you have to say?

@Kingsdaughter613, @Silva

 

Edited June 3, 2022 by Trutharchivist

[Nathrangking he/him]

This year is going to be a different sort of Pesach for me for sure. Being a new Oleh and living in my own apartment for the first time are definitely going to make things interesting, I bought a new Haggada for the seder and got my hands on other reading material in preparation.

Edited March 22, 2022 by Nathrangking

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

I’m going to be doing the Sedarim by my parents this year. As for cleaning, we’re probably going to use a lot more b’dieveds than I normally would. It depends on how crazy things get with this one:

She made her appearance on Taanis Esther, an hour before Purim. So things have been pretty wild since.

[Nathrangking he/him]

1 minute ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I’m going to be doing the Sedarim by my parents this year. As for cleaning, we’re probably going to use a lot more b’dieveds than I normally would. It depends on how crazy things get with this one:

She made her appearance on Taanis Esther, an hour before Purim. So things have been pretty wild since.

Mazal Tov! She's adorable!

[Robin Sedai she/her]

8 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I’m going to be doing the Sedarim by my parents this year. As for cleaning, we’re probably going to use a lot more b’dieveds than I normally would. It depends on how crazy things get with this one:

 

She made her appearance on Taanis Esther, an hour before Purim. So things have been pretty wild since.

Aww, congratulations! She looks so cute

[Trutharchivist he/him]

1 hour ago, Nathrangking said:

This year is going to be a different sort of Pesach for me for sure. Being a new Oleh and living in my own apartment for the first time are definitely going to make things interesting, I bought a new Haggada for the seder and got my hands on other reading material in preparation.

Good luck! Are you doing the Seder alone? That'd be kind of weird, if so. To ease your start in Israel, your first holiday was arranged to still be eight days. Though in case you're Ashkenazi you can eat kitniyos at the last day. Plus, you have one more day of Chol Ha'moed!

I'd have liked using a new Haggadah, and we have heaps of them at my house, but I'll probably use one I already used once. I don't think I got to read all the peirushim there.

5 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I’m going to be doing the Sedarim by my parents this year. As for cleaning, we’re probably going to use a lot more b’dieveds than I normally would. It depends on how crazy things get with this one:

She made her appearance on Taanis Esther, an hour before Purim. So things have been pretty wild since.

Congratulations! 

I actually have no idea what else to say. Never been a mother with a newborn child during Pesach. Neither lived with one - my siblings and I were born either months before or a little after Pesach.

[Nathrangking he/him]

Just now, Trutharchivist said:

Good luck! Are you doing the Seder alone? That'd be kind of weird, if so. To ease your start in Israel, your first holiday was arranged to still be eight days. Though in case you're Ashkenazi you can eat kitniyos at the last day. Plus, you have one more day of Chol Ha'moed!

I'd have liked using a new Haggadah, and we have heaps of them at my house, but I'll probably use one I already used once. I don't think I got to read all the peirushim there.

Fortunately, I'm not alone. My sister, her family, and my parents came after I did. Also, fortunate is that this is not my first adjusted chag. I have been here since shortly before Rosh Hashana. 

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

2 hours ago, Nathrangking said:

Mazal Tov! She's adorable!

 

2 hours ago, Robin Sedai said:

Aww, congratulations! She looks so cute

 

2 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

Good luck! Are you doing the Seder alone? That'd be kind of weird, if so. To ease your start in Israel, your first holiday was arranged to still be eight days. Though in case you're Ashkenazi you can eat kitniyos at the last day. Plus, you have one more day of Chol Ha'moed!

I'd have liked using a new Haggadah, and we have heaps of them at my house, but I'll probably use one I already used once. I don't think I got to read all the peirushim there.

Congratulations! 

I actually have no idea what else to say. Never been a mother with a newborn child during Pesach. Neither lived with one - my siblings and I were born either months before or a little after Pesach.

Thank you all!

My personal favorite haggados are the Meam Loez and the Abravanel haggados.

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

8 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I’m going to be doing the Sedarim by my parents this year. As for cleaning, we’re probably going to use a lot more b’dieveds than I normally would. It depends on how crazy things get with this one:

She made her appearance on Taanis Esther, an hour before Purim. So things have been pretty wild since.

I'm not really supposed to be in this thread, I just wanted to say congratulations, and she looks adorable!

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

1 hour ago, Spren of Kindness said:

I'm not really supposed to be in this thread, I just wanted to say congratulations, and she looks adorable!

Thank you!

[Silva]

I’m personally very excited for this year’s Pesach, setting aside all the cleaning. I’ll be with my siblings, which sadly wasn’t the case last year, and Chol HaMoed is actually looking to be filled with some free time. Can’t sew then, but other things can finally get done!

Haven’t had much time for reading lately (correction: it’s all been spent on Wheel of Time), but those books sound interesting for a later point. What does it matter that the fitting holiday will probably have just passed? 

On 3/22/2022 at 10:02 AM, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I’m going to be doing the Sedarim by my parents this year. As for cleaning, we’re probably going to use a lot more b’dieveds than I normally would. It depends on how crazy things get with this one:

She made her appearance on Taanis Esther, an hour before Purim. So things have been pretty wild since.

Mazel tov!!!

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

19 minutes ago, Silva said:

I’m personally very excited for this year’s Pesach, setting aside all the cleaning. I’ll be with my siblings, which sadly wasn’t the case last year, and Chol HaMoed is actually looking to be filled with some free time. Can’t sew then, but other things can finally get done!

Haven’t had much time for reading lately (correction: it’s all been spent on Wheel of Time), but those books sound interesting for a later point. What does it matter that the fitting holiday will probably have just passed? 

Mazel tov!!!

Thank you!

[Nathrangking he/him]

@yeshevishman 

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

I'm Jewish too, I'm not sure what I'm doing with Pesach this year as I'm no longer religious.

[Trutharchivist he/him]

On 1.4.2022 at 6:15 PM, Queen Elsa Steelheart said:

I'm Jewish too, I'm not sure what I'm doing with Pesach this year as I'm no longer religious.

Is it your first Pesach not being religious anymore? Or is it a general statement that, since you're not religious anymore, you have no plans for Pesach?

Sorry. My first instinct was to ask questions, for some reason. Somewhat fitting, in a way.

Also, I just bought new books for Pesach! Haggados with commentary by Rav Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz) and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in addition to a book about Pesach. 

[Nathrangking he/him]

2 hours ago, Trutharchivist said:

Is it your first Pesach not being religious anymore? Or is it a general statement that, since you're not religious anymore, you have no plans for Pesach?

Sorry. My first instinct was to ask questions, for some reason. Somewhat fitting, in a way.

Also, I just bought new books for Pesach! Haggados with commentary by Rav Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz) and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in addition to a book about Pesach. 

Nice!! The Sacks hagaddah is great!

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

On 05/04/2022 at 9:17 PM, Trutharchivist said:

Is it your first Pesach not being religious anymore? Or is it a general statement that, since you're not religious anymore, you have no plans for Pesach?

Sorry. My first instinct was to ask questions, for some reason. Somewhat fitting, in a way.

Also, I just bought new books for Pesach! Haggados with commentary by Rav Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz) and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, in addition to a book about Pesach. 

It's my second Pesach not being religious anymore, and it was a general statement that since I'm not religious I have no plans for Pesach. No need to apologise  

Ironically I ended up catching corona this week so now definately no plans even if I had no plans in the first place haha. 

[Nathrangking he/him]

Chag Sameach vikasher all!!

[Trutharchivist he/him]

חג פסח שמח וכשר!

Sadly, I'm on my phone so I can't align it to the other side. Oh well.

Anyway, good luck at the Bdikah tonight! (I have no idea how to spell it...) 

[Silva]

חג שמח!

On 4/14/2022 at 10:06 AM, Trutharchivist said:

חג פסח שמח וכשר!

Sadly, I'm on my phone so I can't align it to the other side. Oh well.

Anyway, good luck at the Bdikah tonight! (I have no idea how to spell it...) 

It’s transliterated—basically any spelling is right. 

[Nathrangking he/him]

How were your pesachim?

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Nice. I had a Seder with my paternal grandparents - they came over to us. They claim that this is one of the only places they can go where it is done the "proper" way - my father is very keen on keeping the familial minhagim. We had familial meetings of both sides, and I somehow still managed to sit and watch TV series in my PC for a big part of Chol Ha'moed. Instead of writing the history of Judaism during the last two centuries... Sorry about that, hopefully I'll actually do it one day. 

Maybe I overreacted... Sorry.

[Trutharchivist he/him]

Sorry on advance for the double post.

I thought that maybe we can turn this thread to a general Jewish discussion. If enough people will want that, I'll change the thread's name, tags and perhaps the OP. Anyone interested?

[Nathrangking he/him]

I'm game for that. Might prove interesting.

[Silva]

A bit belated, but I wouldn’t be opposed.