The Seder Plate
During Passover, it is custom and tradition in the Jewish culture to invite friends to share a Passover Seder meal; especially friends who are in need or alone and additionally inviting a goy, (shikse in my case) to join is a way to extend the hand of friendship. Lucky for me I have good friends! Susan and Jim invited me to join them tomorrow evening for a Passover meal, not a full-blown Seder but that’s ok with me.
Last year I posted a blog about the story of the Seder and a bit of an Italian Easter thrown in. You might enjoy reading it: https://pbenjay.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/why-is-this-night-different-from-all-other-nights/ – you will have to copy and paste this link.
Yiddish phrases every Goy should know especially if they happened to be invited to a Seder. And this is a good post to read if you are going to attend: https://pbenjay.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/ten-yiddish-words-every-goy-should-know-2/ Copy and paste.
You’ll know you are NOT at a Seder if during the evening meal, the conversation is peppered with some or all of these Yiddish words:
kvetsh: To complain, whine or fret.
mishegas: Insanity or craziness
shlemiel: a clumsy or inept person-the kind of person who always spills his soup.
shlimazel: someone with constant bad luck – the person the shlemiel spills his soup on.
shmendrick: a jerk, or stupid person
tsuris: serious troubles, not just minor annoyances
plotz:to explode in aggravation.
Have a Zeisen Pasach and for heaven’s sake, watch out for the 7 plagues.
Bill Ding and his band of clowns are the security patrol for this blog site. He is a favorite toy from the 50*s. By the way sometimes a blog is just an ego-maniacal stream of conscience.
I’d be the schmuck spilling soup because I’m too nervous about doing the wrong thing. 😉
Better to be the Shleimiel rather than the Shlimazel-not so good to be theSchmuck and YOU Miss Spinny Liberal would never be the schmuck!:)
This shlimazel wanna-be shleimiel thanks you, pbenjay. 🙂
Love and health to all, Lori
Thanks Rosemarie!