First Seder
Mrs Giyoret is making her first Seder dinner. She is feeling a little frantic.
Mrs Giyoret has been to 30 years of Seders, so she is an experienced Seder-goer. But she is an inexperienced Seder-maker.
And she has just learned that double the number of people are coming tomorrow night. Double.
Eek!
Mrs Giyoret can cook more food--that's not the problem. But Mrs Giyoret only knows how to cook one thing at a time. She doesn't know how to cook two things at a time. Never mind three things at a time.
Plus, her ability to make hard-boiled eggs is pretty sketchy. And there's only one bottle of wine. And not enough chairs.
But everything will be fine.
Because Seder is not about having everything perfect. Seder is about praising Hashem together. Seder is always Dayenu.
So we will perch on someone else's folding chairs, eat whatever Mrs Giyoret manages to get cooked, sip from our one bottle of wine, read the Haggadah, and...
Baruch Hashem, we will be free.
Mrs Giyoret has been to 30 years of Seders, so she is an experienced Seder-goer. But she is an inexperienced Seder-maker.
And she has just learned that double the number of people are coming tomorrow night. Double.
Eek!
Mrs Giyoret can cook more food--that's not the problem. But Mrs Giyoret only knows how to cook one thing at a time. She doesn't know how to cook two things at a time. Never mind three things at a time.
Plus, her ability to make hard-boiled eggs is pretty sketchy. And there's only one bottle of wine. And not enough chairs.
But everything will be fine.
Because Seder is not about having everything perfect. Seder is about praising Hashem together. Seder is always Dayenu.
So we will perch on someone else's folding chairs, eat whatever Mrs Giyoret manages to get cooked, sip from our one bottle of wine, read the Haggadah, and...
Baruch Hashem, we will be free.
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