How hilarious. I just went to a kosher store to buy some kosher l’Pessach food.
The woman bagging my groceries said, “I’ll put the butter in a different bag from the meat.”
“Why?”
“Because some people like their meat bagged seperately from their dairy products.”
“No, no,” I said. “You can bag all my stuff together. And please rub [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Please rub some butter on my salami
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Holidays, Tradition and customs, tagged kosher, kosher food, meat and milk, misunderstanding, Passover, pessach on March 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Pesach: I am a Child: I am a Man
Posted in Avrum Rosensweig, Family, Holidays, Tradition and customs, tagged freedom, Passover, pessach, slavery, the seder on March 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It is springtime. It is Pesach time. As a child, my sisters and I would scour our house for crumbs, which might have fallen from a plate we held while reading or playing.
We would take each and every one of my father’s (may he rest in peace) books off the shelves and dust the front [...]
Thou shall not murder.
Posted in Michael T. Pullen, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Torah/Bible, tagged commandment, Exodus, G-d, Moses, murder, Passover, pessach, prophet on March 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As I drove home, I was thinking of the passover story. I was struggling with this.
The story begins in Egypt with Moses the prince of Egypt. Moses is living a pretty good life as far as we can tell then he murders some one. He murders a person who is beating on a slave.
Moses banishes himself [...]
And I wanna be free
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Holidays, Terminology, tagged free falling, freedom, judaism, queen, tom petty, true freedom on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pessach, the holiday of freedom. FREEDOM! What a dream.
When you imagine yourself absolutely free, what are you picturing? I doubt you’re at work with your boss looking over your shoulder. I also doubt you’re bathing your children as they splash water all over the bathroom that you just cleaned. I’d be surprised if you’re lifting [...]
This week: Pessach! (Passover)
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Holidays, tagged freedom, jewish holidays, Passover, pessach on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wowowow, Pessach is imminent. Yikes. It’s my second time having to set up my own kitchen by myself. Till now I’ve always been with family.
Anyway, I was reading about the seder night in a book the other day. It said that there are so many things factoring into the experience that night, for good and [...]
Lay down your bike
Posted in Avrum Rosensweig, Tradition and customs, tagged death, israel, israeli soldiers, motorcycle, mourning, mourning customs, sitting shiva on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know there is a tradition amongst (motor)bikers, that if a friend dies on his/her bike, the surviving bikers lay their bikes down the next day. This happened recently at a place I used to work. It was strange to see a bike lying down, but it makes sense. That’s respect. Our bikes shouldn’t [...]
The world is coming at me
Posted in Deena Levenstein, Spirituality, tagged birthday, nostalgia, the world, turning 30 on March 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am 30 today. Entering my fourth decade. And it makes me think about things, in case I don’t already. And today was a heart-breaking, tear-jerking day at work. A sad thing ended but, a sad thing being over is not necessarily a happy thing. It makes you think of the sad thing from the [...]
Jewish Journey: Mitzvot
Posted in Assimilation, Family, Michael T. Pullen, Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Relationships, Tradition and customs, tagged doing good, halacha, jewish, Jewish Journey, Mitzvah, mitzvot on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is part IV. Read: Part I, part II, part III.
Ah now I am Jewish, all the hard stuff is behind me right? All I have to do is continue on living the way I have always been living? What changed? One day I was a goy the next a Jew. You cannot tell me [...]
Cheeseburger for the soul
Posted in Mitzvot/Mitzvas, Tradition and customs, Yosef Levenstein, tagged cheeseburger, G-d, god, judaism, kosher, mindfulness on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was on 1 local train going downtown yesterday, and as usual on a New York subway I could overhear 5 different conversations on the train. The conversation that caught my ear was between two young girls. They were chatting about boys, and clothes and then one of them said, “let’s get a cheeseburger as [...]
