Comments on: Seasonal goodies

By: John Isbell

John Isbell — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 14:34:59 +0000

Isn’t that cruel to the moles?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:42:22 +0000

Salsa mole!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:41:40 +0000

Mole sauce.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:53:07 +0000

Btw, the fascist octopus has been at work; how do you spice things up with chocolate?

By: dsquared

dsquared — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 07:23:25 +0000

Davies has been Awol for months not true; I had leave.

By: jm

jm — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 03:44:28 +0000

The Haggadah is the retelling of the story of the Exodus. The Exodus is the story of the Jews’ flight from slavery in Egypt. Were there no miracles in the book of Exodus it would long have been forgotten, or relegated to the library like the Epic of Gilgamesh. Therefore a Haggadah with no mention of a higher power cannot exist. A retelling of the story of Exodus without mention of a higher power exists only because sooner or later the hearers are going to hear the actual substance of the story, which are the miracles. You’re doing a religious deed in spite of yourself, but it’s no Seder. Happy Passover. Something about who did the passing over and who was given it was very, very important, and no, the Rolling Thunder Heavy Ordnance didn’t miss your firstborn son because of the cod liver oil you gave him, but the naches. Shalom. Viva la lucha.

By: zed

zed — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 01:10:21 +0000

For all the members here you would think more posts would be forthcoming. How about some content, jeesus f*cking christ. Davies has been Awol for months. Throw anything up, a reading list or something.

By: Dan Simon

Dan Simon — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:03:24 +0000

I love the idea of a humanist, feminist seder, and my family’s planning on having one this year. Of course, we’ve made a few modifications: we’ve eliminated the orange and the other modern updates, and use the complete standard text, including references to God. We think of it as a traditionalist, humanist, feminist seder.

By: Bernard Yomtov

Bernard Yomtov — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:41:06 +0000

The orange seems to be somewhat common these days, even among many who would by no means describe their Seder as “feminist.” I’m not big on the transmutation of the plagues into generic evils. I think the specificity is important, especially when we recall the suffering of the Egyptians.

By: John Isbell

John Isbell — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:33:12 +0000

I didn’t think the traditional seder was particularly sexist. Agist, sure. OTOH, the seder and Dayenu are quite possibly the oldest festival and song still celebrated on this planet. I’d have to check Hinduism.

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:15:06 +0000

Ooh… thanks for the reminder… Next week will feature two non-humanist, non-feminist seders with my in-laws…