#pesach cleaning

[mental-mona]

You may know, if you’ve ever seen a Jewish house before Passover, it’s hard work. It really is. I try and be away from home when it’s happening. You have to clear the house of all products that contain leaven, you’ve got to clean everything, you’ve got to take out a new set of utensils and cutlery and crockery, and it is really hard work. I got somebody in England to design a special apron for Passover cleaning that read, “For this, we left Egypt?”

I used to wonder, why make Passover such hard work? And now I know: because freedom is hard work. And it has to be fought for in every generation. We have to tell and re-tell the story. We have to remind ourselves what it feels like each year to eat the bread of affliction and taste the bitter herbs of slavery.

...

Freedom is hard to attain, but it is very easy to lose. And that’s why it has to be fought for in every generation.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"tl, "In Defence of Religious Liberty," the acceptance speech at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty award ceremony

[sincerejester]

[charleezard]

For the people still reblogging my reminder to start cleaning your house for Pesach early and not leave it for the day before. Listen. I am holding you gently. I love every single one of you. But sweetheart, it IS basically the day before. If your intention was to start early, might be a little too late for that.

That being said don't beat yourself up too much. Do what you can, if you didn't start earlier I'm sure you had your reasons and I'm absolutely not judging you. If for some reason you can't clean, that's ok. And if you are cleaning and are only starting now... Good luck!

[princessg3rard]

30 minutes of discussion over the kashrut for Passover of sugar powder ended in finding out my mum doesn’t give a fuck bc we eat kitniyot anyways. I love judaism

[simcha-is-a-mitzvah]

After cleaning out the freezer for pesach my mom took a ton of challah that we still had and made French toast!

Challah french toast always hits different. And after all that cleaning it's almost like a reward

[writtenfoxscreams]

Can’t waittt.

[girlactionfigure]

Heimish Humor

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

I think to goyim the term "pesach preparation robe" sounds like its some fancy religious garment but its actually just a bathrobe I wear when I eat chametz the last couple weeks before pesach so I don't get any traces of it on my regular clothes and I don't have to do a billion loads of laundry

[shalom-iamcominghome]

What I like a lot about judaism is... It can wait. It can wait. Especially on shabbos it's just... You can wait. Life can wait a bit.

And that's really nice in a world that moves at a breakneck speed, demands you move with or be left behind. I've always been left behind because it's hard to keep up, but I find that I can actually just... Let things happen when it comes to judaism. You think a people, a religion that's thousands of years old doesn't have time for you, or wouldn't be willing to wait for you? I doubt that you'll be left behind, truly.

[nonsenseofyesteryear]

alright kings let's get rid of this bread!

[kamil-a]

indulge me a moment. while i firmly believe sayer is both atheist (belief) and anti-religious practices (distraction) (unproductive) (you are notttt getting shabbos/holidays off at aerolith are you kidding me lmfao) sayer would looooove pesach. sayer would love it so much. i would attend sayer's sayder. and it would read and explain the haggada itself. and everything it said as explanation would be like literally religiously heretical. it would be talking about how the exodus from egypt is actually about leaving earth for typhon. go off on a tangent about how taking upon oneself the yoke of heaven is actually about going to literally space in the sky and doing your part to comply by aerolith rules and be responsible for your fellow residents. it would LOVE to tell everyone a story about a goat bought for two zuz that gets eaten by a cat whos bit by a dog whos hit by a stick etc etc etc and honestly it might view it in an innovation/obsolescence way and scare itself.

and of course it would be. unbelievably strict. with how much of each thing youre supposed to eat.

[mental-mona]

Scrupulosity

 Hey folks, just a quick reminder while you're Pesach cleaning: there is such a thing as being too obsessive about getting rid of chametz. Aside from getting schmutz out of cracks being unnecessary, it can be a symptom of a form of OCD called Scrupulosity. Read a general overview of this religion- and/or moral-focused OCD here, and read part 2 of the series if you want to learn more or if that page sounds like you or someone you love. That page also has info on how to treat the disease. Part 3 is like part 2, just about moral- or ethics-focused obsessions instead of religious ones. We joke about "Orthodox Compulsive Disorder" when it comes to people who keep every chumra in the book and invent new ones, but in addition to being tasteless, we're trivializing a real mental illness and preventing people from getting the help they need. Please, let's all just clean what needs to be cleaned without going overboard, and if you feel compelled to do significantly more than what your rabbi says is necessary it might be time to seek help. This has been a PSA; good luck and chag sameach.

[sincerejester]

[charleezard]

Ok since I've seen a lot of people saying they haven't started yet:

START CLEANING YOUR HOUSE FOR PESACH IF YOU HAVEN'T YET. DON'T TRY TO DO IT ALL THE DAY BEFORE, IT WILL BE PAINFUL AND YOU KNOW IT!!

Alternatively, sell your chametz to a goy

[jewishcissiekj]

finished Padawan (great book highly recommend it is one of my favorites now) and started listening to The Living Force (new book about the Jedi council going on a road trip) audiobook, but the file is refusing to work with the app I usually use for listening so instead of listening to it on 1.5x speed I'm going to have to endure all 16 hours of this book being very slowly read

[writtenfoxscreams]

Welcome one welcome all to the only time my family cleans our cars.