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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.