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Big Mac · Apr 2, 2007, 08:04 AM

Happy Passover, brothers and sisters! I hope your first sedar is enjoyable tonight. I think I'll go find some nice bread and maybe a pastry to eat before sunset.

bstone · Apr 2, 2007, 11:19 AM

Chag Sameach. Just flew into Florida where mom and dad live in the winter months. So excited to see them and spend the seders with them.

design219 · Apr 2, 2007, 11:29 AM

What is a sedar?

ShortcutToMoncton · Apr 2, 2007, 11:30 AM

Happy Passover!

My girlfriend's flying to Edmonton this weekend, so she wants to have a passover meal on Friday. She decided she wanted to have a meal of lobster...I figured it wasn't really my place to argue.

greg

Big Mac · Apr 2, 2007, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by design219

What is a sedar?

The seder (bstone used the proper transliteration) is the ritual meal conducted on the first and second nights of the Passover holiday.

design219 · Apr 2, 2007, 11:34 AM

I'm sure it's kosher, anything else special about it?

Big Mac · Apr 2, 2007, 11:35 AM

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton

Happy Passover!

My girlfriend's flying to Edmonton this weekend, so she wants to have a passover meal on Friday. She decided she wanted to have a meal of lobster...I figured it wasn't really my place to argue.

greg

That kind of reminds of when Peggy Hill wanted to have a Hanukkah menorah in honor of Hank's mother's Jewish boyfriend and wanted to let Bobby "blow out the candles."

Except, that was a cartoon, and this is real life. That's an important distinction.

Are you really going to eat lobster on Pesach?

Big Mac · Apr 2, 2007, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by design219

I'm sure it's kosher, anything else special about it?

Yeah, it's a special set of observances that go along with the meal. You can read more from Jew FAQ.

Mithras · Apr 2, 2007, 12:20 PM

Anybody else doubling up? I have family tonight, friends tomorrow.

ShortcutToMoncton · Apr 2, 2007, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Are you really going to eat lobster on Pesach?

Probably.

Neither of us are religious. She's very proud of her heritage and background, and celebrates the major Jewish "holidays," but she doesn't observe any particular "rules" of the religion (she isn't kosher, etc.).

greg

andi*pandi · Apr 2, 2007, 12:36 PM

I think having lobster for passover would even make my less-than-strict inlaws raise their eyebrows.

I'm sure tonights dinner will be matzo ball soup, matzo coated fried fish, matzo coated baked chicken, potatoes, vegetables, and some form of matzo layer cake. The best thing about the meal is the little puffy matzo rolls. Which would be better with butter but if there's meat they don't do butter. For holiday meals anyhow.

shinji · Apr 2, 2007, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by Mithras

Anybody else doubling up? I have family tonight, friends tomorrow.

I'm supposed to go to a family one tomorrow but might not...it is kind of just a social and not a religious thing for us, my mom uses a coloring book children's Haggadah...

bstone · Apr 2, 2007, 01:49 PM

I actually really like the children's Haggadot. They're cute. I also love my mom's homemade gefilte fish and matzah ball soup.

Mithras · Apr 2, 2007, 02:08 PM

We'll be using a nice social-activist feminist haggadah. I look forward to seeing the one my college classmate Jonathan Safran Foer comes up with.

andi*pandi · Apr 2, 2007, 02:39 PM

children's haggadah = short = good.

we use the ones from maxwell house.

bstone · Apr 2, 2007, 02:41 PM

My family is Orthodox and we have used the Maxwell House hagaddot. They're not so colorful but they contain the important stuff.

imitchellg5 · Apr 2, 2007, 03:45 PM

Can't wait for Easter. And it pays to go to a Christian school: I get Friday off

Doofy · Apr 2, 2007, 04:16 PM

I've no idea what any of this means (other than the actual term, "Passover"), but hope you all have a great time anyways.

Big Mac · Apr 2, 2007, 05:40 PM

Thank you very much, Doofy; same to you.