#pesach prep

[garlic-and-cloves]

How to make charoset

Step 1: Argue about how much charoset you're going to make

Step 2: Argue about how you're going to slice the apples, and is it worth it to pull out the machine?

(Complain about how many apples there are to be sliced)

Step 3: Argue about how small to slice the apples

(Complain about the machine not working properly)

Step 4: Argue about whether the walnuts are ground up enough

Step 5: Argue about how much of each seasoning to add

Step 6: Argue about whether or not you did everything right in the end

(Complain about all the dishes)

Eat delicious charoset with matzo

Step 7: Argue about why we eat charoset, anyway

[reaching-ruchnius]

This is soooo reassuring I was beginning to get obsessive about like, the cracks in my couch or floorboards but that isn’t necessary. Deep breaths. It’s seriously not as scary as I thought. Ein od milvado fr fr

[doyouknowthisjewishcharacter]

Unfortunately, I’m not going to post him (as much as I love The Last Unicorn). Even though there are quite a few Jewish references in both the book and the movie, Schmendrick isn’t really a Jewish character. Peter S. Beagle (who wrote the book and script for the 1982 movie) is Jewish and that comes through in his writing in a lot of ways. The name Schmendrick is more of an inside joke than anything, so I feel like he doesn’t qualify as a canonical Jewish character.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Pesach prep is all about mopping your apartment wearing only underwear for your bottom half because you don't like feeling of soaked pants, in the dark with only the light from the open bathroom door because your bird has a set bedtime and dammit you might not have a healthy sleep schedule but he has to.

[hachama]

Silence!

Two

Weeks

Until

Purim

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Well. I'm back on the job market as of 1 week before what was supposed to be my first day.

This whole experience has just been so freaking weird from start to finish. At first it felt like complete and total hashgacha pratis. I wasn't even seriously looking for anything because it was during the time 5yo didn't have a para yet and I couldn't so much as commit to an interview. And the job title wasn't even something I would normally have clicked on. But I clicked on it solely due the organization it was for and discovered that the job title seemed to have been poorly chosen because the actual work was mostly in my actual area of expertise. And then I applied and they offered me an interview a week from the date of offer. I had absolutely no idea if I could actually commit to that interview because I had no idea when 5yo would have a para, but I did anyway, and his para ended up starting the day before the interview. Besides the job title, the other reason I wouldn't normally have applied for the job was that it wasn't full time, but extremely uncharacteristically, I somehow missed that fact and found out during the interview (mortifying but apparently other applicants were significantly worse all around). And then it was just like, this is so clearly HP, maybe it does make sense to start mornings later (and not need to find a morning sitter, which has proved near-impossible in the past) and have Friday off, technically we can afford this even though the salary cut would be a blow to my ego and it would've been nice to have more money. Fine. I'm doing it.

That was 2.5 months ago. I only had the one interview because it was a very small organization but the whole hiring process was super schlepped out. Over time I started realizing that the two people I'd be working under were regularly not on the same page as each other to an egregious extent. Person A told me that Pesach is the slowest time of year, to the point where I probably wouldn't need to take any formal time off to prep. Person B then told me that actually, most years, that's the busiest time of year. I also was told about 4 different versions of what the position entailed, ranging from it being primarily my area of expertise, to a 50/50 split between my expertise and admin, to 100% admin for the first few months and then transitioning to my expertise, to admin-dominant for at least the next few years.

I really probably should have pulled out sooner - they also didn't offer health insurance and were paying me less than I was worth even considering the reduction of hours - but again, so much of it felt like such obvious hashgacha pratis, I was frustrated but didn't really seriously reconsider accepting despite the downsides and the fact that clearly these people were a bit of a mess.

But the turning point was when I received the contract and realized I'd forgotten to discuss PTO. They were only offering me half the vacation days I had at my old job, a number lower than I'd almost ever seen in other job ads recently, and had a stipulation that no vacation could be used until after 6 months, which I have never seen in my field in 2024. I politely wrote back requesting more vacation days and explaining why I was making this request (to partially balance out the blow that was the reduction in pay from what I'd expected to make and lack of health insurance, which was 80% covered at my old job). I also asked to have the 6-month requirement waived.

Person A wrote back almost immediately saying yes, of course, no problem! We'll send a new contract. But then 3 days later I got what came across as a fairly stern email explaining that actually they could not give me additional PTO, though we could revisit that in a year, and that in fact, they were being extremely generous considering the total number of days off I had per year, which they enumerated.....and apparently, the Fridays that I was not going to be paid to work, which were already accounted for and then some by the lower salary, and which could not be used at will or in a row by definition, were supposed to balance out the lower PTO?? It was really ridiculous logic, but I was still kind of in this zen "this is all so clearly hashgacha pratis" zone, so I wrote back that I could accept the lower number of vacation days for now. They had also said we could have a Zoom meeting to make sure we were all on the same page, which seemed unnecessary to me at that point and I said so, but told them if there was something they felt still needed to be discussed I had availability at X times.

I expected this meeting to be just them reiterating that they can't give me more vacation days but we can revisit it in a year, and me being like yes ok.

That was not what it was.

It was a confrontation, in which they both backed me into the proverbial corner and declared that they were "taken aback" by the "tone" of the email in which I had tried to negotiate more vacation time.

Now. In the past, I have gotten professional feedback that I need to be more flowery with my emails because people who don't know me as well can take my matter-of-fact style as blunt/rude, even when there's nothing objectively rude about what I wrote and people who do know me wouldn't read it that way at all. But. BUT. I wrote and rewrote and edited and reedited the crap out of that email to make it nice. It was literally. just. a normal benefits negotiation email that a normal new hire should be considered perfectly justified in sending. And I graciously accepted their denial. But there I was, being forced to defend a very normal request? Asked in a very normal way?

And it was like they were taking personal offense to the fact that we had gotten to this stage and I wasn't satisfied enough with what was on the table. Person B especially. She zoomed in on specific phrases and demanded that I explain them, like why I'd said I could move forward "for now" with the number of vacation days. Because. You guys. Literally told me we will revisit the issue in a year??? And I was just acknowledging that reality??? Person B asked if I would be satisfied if nothing changed in a year, declaring that there was no way that I would get more vacation days at that point, because Person A is [fancy title] and has been there for 3 years and also only has that many days. Which. One, I notice that she didn't mention that she herself, also with a fancy title, and who has been there significantly longer, only has that many days. HUH. Two, why the f would you (you being Person A though) offer to revisit it in a year if there is no way it's going to change, and get mad at me for the crime of taking you seriously? And three, that sounds like a Person A problem? Because she is the [fancy title] and she could've negotiated more for herself upon hire and she didn't. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed to try.

Anyway, the whole experience was deeply unpleasant, and so out of left field that all I could think to do in the moment was to try to make nice, avoid burning any bridges, and process what the heck just happened afterwards. At the end of the meeting, Person B said, "Ok, the two of us are going to talk and we'll get back to you." I was floored, because what was there even to get back to me about? They wanted me to explain and defend my attempt to negotiate in all its minutiae, I had done so, and it's not like the benefits themselves were up for discussion. I told her I was confused, what were they going to get back to me about, were they reconsidering the offer of employment? Person A jumped in all, "Oh no, of course not, I think we're all good! Everything is good!" but Person B did not elaborate or concur.

I like 75% expected they were going to revoke the offer, and kind of almost hoped that they would so that I wouldn't have to make my own decision about what to make of that absolute narishkeit. But not long afterwards I received an updated offer letter waiving the 6 month requirement and that was it.

At that point I decided that I would give them 2-3 months to see if they could exceed the now very, very low bar of my expectations, and if not, begin job searching in earnest again. But I was absolutely dreading my start date.

And then came yesterday, 1 week before my first day. Now, as background, I had been told that I would normally be expected to work in person twice a week, and only very occasionally 3 days when needed. I had asked them which 2 days I should expect to come in so that I could arrange a babysitter accordingly, and they had told me that I could choose according to my needs, and just let them know. I told them Tuesday and Wednesday. They said ok. They asked whether Monday or Thursday would be preferable for the occasional 3rd day, and I said Thursday. I hired a babysitter whose hours were calculated according to the assumption that I would be commuting on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

So I get this email yesterday morning. Informing me not to come into the office Tuesday and Wednesday next week, but rather only Thursday, with no acknowledgement whatsoever that this was counter to the arrangements we had discussed and no explanation as to why it couldn't be one of my regular days. I know why, though - it's because these 2 people work with each other to arrange which days they want to be in the office each week, and I realized then that I was never going to be part of that discussion, just expected to follow their whims, despite what we had discussed before. They were not seeing me as equally worthy of consideration.

Oh, and the other part. They also informed me that in my 2nd week of work, there was an event on Wednesday starting at 5pm that they expected me to work. This event would be at a location significantly further from where I live than the office is and they apparently didn't consider it relevant to tell me until what time I would be expected to stay just yet (so, like, thanks for the heads up but how am I supposed to make arrangements, exactly?). My husband does not get home til 8:30-9 on Wednesday nights and has no flexibility to leave early, and they theoretically knew this from previous discussions. They also knew that I have little kids. But for some reason, even though I'd had the basic job offer for about 2 months prior to the event, and even though this event had definitely been planned well in advance, they didn't feel a need to let me know that they'd require me to work a weekday evening event specifically on a day of the week that it would be incredibly difficult for me to work in the evening.

Now, in a normal freaking workplace, I would simply bring up these scheduling concerns. What a thought! But these people could not handle standard benefits negotiations because any hint that I wasn't fully satisfied with current arrangements was personally offensive. So. You know.

The entire advantage of accepting a less-than-full-time job was supposed to be that I would have to worry about childcare less. But it was at this point patently obvious that these people would think absolutely nothing of making my schedule completely unpredictable on a regular basis and also would not be remotely open to pushback about it. I couldn't just put my head down and give it 2-3 months and then look for something else because I would constantly be stressing out trying to sort childcare. Which should have been the one single solitary non-problem in this position!

So I let them know that it doesn't seem like this is going to be a good fit and I regretfully have to withdraw my acceptance - I am receiving too much conflicting information about, well, literally everything, and it seems like they need someone who is able to offer a level of flexibility in their schedule that I simply do not have at this stage in my life.

I'm sure they are royally pissed and telling themselves the fairytale that they tried so hard to accommodate me and make me happy and I totally misled them about being satisfied with their offer and then screwed them over at the last minute. That's not what happened - despite everything, I was gung-ho until that unbelievably disturbing meeting - but that's the narrative they'll be bouncing off each other to avoid admitting that they totally botched a good hire.

It's been 27 hours since my "resignation" email and they haven't bothered to reply. Really regretting missing out on a workplace that is such a paragon of professionalism! 🙄🙄🙄

[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

do goyim believe me when I say pesach is my favorite holiday bc its 100% true im so hyped for it always. however their impression of me prepping for it is basically obsessive cleaning for a month and then a day or two where I become extremely picky abt everything and cover random shit in aluminum foil and go "hehrheehehehr this is kinda fun" while I boil my utensils. and then after that I make enough rice to feed a small army its just for me though. I havent slept .

[maxarat]

Nicky lore for @mik3stuff ! I don't read comics (they intimidate me) so I can't break it down like that but still

Key players to know are Nicky's parents, Andy and Jeanne, his aunt and uncle Jim and Dawn, Mouna Tawfeek, their bestie and foster cousin, Mouna's mom Wafia, and Mouna and Nicky's friend Altair. Nicki also has two younger brothers, Jake and Peter, and cousins Zoey and Louis, but they don't do anything really

Background, Nicky's parents live in a pretty rural area, with Andy being a county deputy. Dawn and Jim live in the city (specifically Kansas City), and Nicky lives with them to go to a prep school. Jim and Wafia work together at a nuclear lab, and Mouna and Altair are in Math League with Nicky

When Nicky is 14, almost 15, a spider sneaks into the lab, gets radioactive, and comes home on Uncle Jim's coat, where it bites Nicky. Aunt Dawn and Uncle Jim find out pretty soon, and when Nicky decides to become Spider-Lass, Aunt Dawn helps make the costume and Uncle Jim helps with the webs!

Six months later, Nicky is 15 and not used to responsibility. They're warned about a series of burglaries but instead of doing anything hangs out with Mouna and Altair, resulting in Uncle Jim's death when he tries to stop them. Because of this, Nicky "hangs up their cape" (there is no cape) and spends a lot of time with their friends, but when the Green Goblin attacks their school Nicky gets back in action.

Just after Nicky turns 16, Wafia is hurt in an accident at work, and Mouna moves in with Aunt Dawn while she heals. Wafia becomes Doc Ock a bit into this to get revenge, unconvinced it was an accident, and Mouna finds out about Spider-Lass, becoming Nicky's guy in the chair.

Several months after this, Nicky's family is visiting the city for the holidays (Pesach, probably) when Doc Ock goes on a rampage, resulting in the death of Nicky's dad, who stepped in to help. Nicky is able to beat Wafia in this battle, and while she ultimately escapes, Nicky finds out who she is, and Mouna permanently moves in with Aunt Dawn. It's around here Nicky is introduced to the Spiderverse (ofc not in their own comic run)

Next important thing, Nicky is 17 and finds out the Green Goblin, who was their main enemy, is actually Altair, who was desperate to be known and leave a legacy. They fight a few times after this (with a subplot about Nicky trying and failing to keep the info from Mouna cause she'd be upset, and she's even more upset by the secrets ofc), Nicky is able to subdue Altair enough to get him to start a redemption arc! (Then ASTV/BSTV happen) Eventually Altair joins Nicky in vigilantism! I should figure out a hero name for him lol. And that's all I got

@punkeropercyjackson @yukii0nna @biandbored

[jewishconvertthings]

Hi! So, I’m a fictive in a plural system. The body is halachally Jewish by reform standards (patrilinear) but in exomemories, my family was WASP-y as hell. I’m reasonably sure I need to go through the process to convert and I consider myself a Jew in progress, however, I’ve got absolutely no idea how to explain the situation to a rabbi. I actually tried reaching out over email to one at the shul we half heartedly attend, but I didn’t get an answer. I’m not sure if it ended up in spam somehow or if he did see it and thought I was fucking with him or crazy. Or both. I don’t have any guarantees I’ll be in the system forever, though I’ve been here for like three years now. Is it worth trying again? The shul is Reform and super chill with LGBT stuff, but I don’t know what that means for the scarier neurodivergences.

Hi there!

So you are definitely not the first (and I doubt you'll be the last) person to ask about plurality and conversion to Judaism here. Because of that, I am giving a much more extensive answer that may exceed the scope of your question, because I want to be able to hopefully assist others with similar questions. Thank you in advance for your patience!

Here's the thing about being plural and conversion - you convert as a unit. Once the body is halachicly Jewish, that's it, you all are. Judaism is interesting in that we already canonically believe in (at least Jews) having multiple souls. Additionally, there is the mystical idea that the soul of every convert was at Sinai and therefore that when someone is driven to convert it's because they already had a Jewish soul. However, they still need to convert.

Why? Because Judaism is an embodied religion. It is very much about taking things that exist in the animal world and elevating them to sanctity through mitzvot. Every human and animal pees, but Jews say a bracha afterwards because we are grateful that our body's innards are working correctly enough to make that possible. Every human and animal eats, but Jews keep kosher and say brachot to sanctify what goes into our bodies. Judaism even has mitzvot related to married couples' conduct with their spouse, especially in relationship to menstruation. For as much as Judaism believes in souls, it equally believes in grounding those souls in the earthly realm and therefore liberating the divine sparks of creation in the process.

Which is all to say: Judaism is also a group project. We are judged collectively as a nation on Rosh Hashana and repent as a nation on Yom Kippur. Even if you were a singlet, you would still need to consider carefully whether you were prepared to join in the collective project of mitzvot. People who have existing familial ties to others may find it more challenging to convert. What if your spouse or teenage children do not wish to convert with you? It is often still possible to convert (I did, and my spouse did not convert with me) but it requires at least some amount of buy-in support from those you live with and are permanently tied to, even if they are not directly joining you. My spouse, who again is not Jewish and did not convert with me, still knows at least as much about kashrut as I do because he does the vast majority of the cooking, he helps me clean and prep for Pesach every year, and he actually eats pesadik food with me every year so as not to bring chametz into the house. He helps me prepare the house for Shabbat and does not interfere with the setup, and works around my observance. It's a huge commitment from a gentile who does not believe in G-d and appreciates but does not wish to join the Jewish people.

Your system has to be on board. They just do. Because if/when you decide not to front or determine that it's time to move on or what-not, the body will still be halachicly Jewish and it will be up to those running it to determine how to act in light of that reality.

For what it's worth, I am very familiar with a system who converted, and I have learned about what their internal conversation was like beforehand. It was extensive! They operate like a family, and there are six of them. Two it was clear right away were dyed-in-the-wool Jewish and were they singlets, nothing could have stopped them from becoming observant Jews. (One probably would have tried to become a rebbetzin and the other would've become a gay yeshiva bochur. Alas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.) Two of them were people who would make excellent Jews, but probably also could've stayed excellent pagans. The fifth is very much a skeptic and the sixth was very much a Witch. The middle two were easy to sway after being exposed to queer-friendly Judaism. The fifth only agreed after understanding enough about Yiddish socialism and the history of Jewish leftism and secular culture that he realized he could very much appreciate yiddishkeit even if he didn't really believe in G-d (or if G-d is real, didn't really trust or like G-d given the state of the world.) He basically agreed that as long as he never had to do the davening or ritual mitzvot, he was cool with it.

The sixth acquiesced to the majority. She was very uneasy about making an eternal vow of any kind to any being, but especially one as powerful as the Almighty, and especially with something as complicated to follow as the mitzvot. She was reassured by the process of Yom Kippur to annul vows (Kol Nidrei) and to reset the slate through teshuva and collective forgiveness. She was also very nervous about the concept of tying one's fate to the collective fate of the Jewish people in terms of said agreement to keep the mitzvot. Her position was basically: You Don't Make Deals With Things You Can't See, and YES That Absolutely Includes Hashem. But! If the rest were going to insist on doing that anyway, well. They'd better be willing to hold by that Forever, even after death. How frum were they willing to be? After some further discussion (fifth alter's reluctance notwithstanding) they collectively agreed that they would agree to the mitzvot on the terms of the Conservative movement. The fifth alter agreed that he would not do anything to disrupt the others' observance even if he personally might have done differently as a secular/atheist Jew, e.g. watched TV on Shabbat or driven somewhere besides shul.

It's worth noting that I got this story because we are friends and that once they had full system buy-in, they decided for safety reasons *not* to discuss this particular wrinkle of psychology with their rabbis. Now, part of that decision was that that are a healthy system that works well together, has had extensive post-trauma therapy that *did* work with each alter individually as well as the system collectively, and were totally functional (after therapy) without any sort of psychiatric intervention. They were unwilling to jeopardize the relative safety from mental health institutions and their professional career by "coming out" about their plurality to anyone of authority in person or online. (I have obtained their collective permission to share this story as anonymized through myself as a third party to help other systems who are considering giyur.)

So to be clear, this is the advice I would offer as a layperson and as an informed friend.

**Major important reminder that I am not a rabbi or a mental health professional.**

Now, your situation is somewhat different from theirs, in that any conversion you make is going to be to solidify your halachic status as someone who is already Jewish in a major way and probably considered Jewish by the Reform movement already. They did not have previously existing ties to Judaism, whereas even if you do nothing, you will still be Jewish (even if not halachicly so by the traditional movements.)

I would recommend having a full system discussion. You want to figure out what your system, as a collective unit, needs, wants, and is willing to go along with. You will want, as part of this discussion, to do a major mental health and system balance analysis as well. How stable is your system? How functional are you as a group in the broader world? How healthy are your relationships to one another? Do you have trauma to unpack first? Need some type of therapeutic intervention? Do it now; do it first.

Then, if everyone is on board (enough) and working well together as a system, I would approach a rabbi to convert as a unit. It's up to you to determine how much, if anything, to disclose about your plurality to the Rabbi, so long as you can honestly tell him that you are [all] mentally well and stable. It is very possible to be a healthy system and/or to have long-term chronic mental illnesses while still being relatively stable and mentally well. Lots of people with well-managed mood disorders, personality disorders, developmental disorders, and even reality and dissociation disorders can and have converted. Judaism can truly be a place of peace and a shelter for the troubled. However, you must know yourself(/ves) well and you must be willing to seek professional help first or along the way if needed.

All of the plural stuff aside, I would recommend reaching out again after the high holidays and/or considering reaching out to a Conservative rabbi. The Reform movement may already consider you Jewish and therefore may not want to do a giyur l'chumra. The Conservative movement (much as I might personally disagree with it on this point) would not consider you halachicly Jewish and would be delighted to help you solidify your Jewish identity. If you ultimately decide not to convert but rather to reclaim and learn through the Reform movement, please know that you still have a place here. It's labeled as a gerische space, but the same types of resources and communities tend to help both gerim and reclaimants. We would be delighted to help you connect to your heritage and people and to support you doing so in a way that feels the most correct and appropriate to you.

Wishing you all the best in your exploration, a shana tova, and a meaningful Yom Kippur if you are observing it!

[hineini]

How hard would she have it if she knew?

It's been eighteen months but it returned to my brain as I delivered the necessary hint to my mom.

A year and a half ago, a neighbour who had come for dinner ensured I knew I had full right to plug my ears due to the fact she was about to start naming various kinds of food animals help make. I gave her some gentle shit, asking why I'd want to do so and she promptly retorted that I'm vegan, implying I should feel traumatized and/or nostalgic if egg, dairy and/or any sort of meat enter my ears. I didn't have it hard replying to that at all, ensuring she knew I don't hesitate to name any animal product as necessary according to my authentic nature.

Today, squid was chosen for anybody Wordling to write. Despite? Due to? my completely vegan diet, I had it easy requesting my mom simply tell me calamari's English name in order to have success winning the game.

As if somebody so concerned about animal ethics should be able to do something so...draining? devastating if not traumatizing? (to be vaguely sarcastic). God help me for being so contrarian, right? Plus it's probably supposed to be magnified due to my faith; vegans at large, let alone vegan Jews, should be completely shocked at my behaviour, daring name something that's not kosher, right??? Then again, I've always been a kind of contrarian Jew too, happily coming to worship as much as I could prior to the war's start provoking my slow synagogue membership resignation and daring recognize holidays for what they are, always ensuring people knew Chanukah is Jewish Pride as opposed to Christmas, savouring everything (obviously vegan like me =)) prepped for munching during my Seder run Pesach's second day and as necessary helping others learn that much as they're not very known to the 'outside world' Sukkot and Shavuot are actually large. Sure have it easy to this day indicating that Judaism's about the queerest faith on earth given how core coming out is to many holidays' origin and/or observance, whether small like Chanukah and Purim are or large like Pesach and Shavuot are, in addition.

Sure hope and pray my neighbour wouldn't feel (too?) traumatized if she learned about my behaviour, much as I don't know how much hope she has to learn about it...clearly pretty easy for someone philosophical to muse no matter anything to that effect however.

[tzipporahssong]

Very important Pesach prep happening here

[shtetlcore]

Everyone clap, Local Jew took a break from cleaning and prepping for their seder to set up a pesach queue for this blog /Joking

[giyrut-girlie]

im visiting some friends in a big jewish community for pesach and so far im having a blast EXCEPT: i was at shul on Friday night and realised while i was saying maariv that my magen david necklace was no longer on my person 😭😭

i have no idea where it fell off, but I don’t think it was inside the house bc we’ve been pesach cleaning and it hasn’t turned up which probably means it’s gone forever :,,,,,,((((

it wasn’t a super expensive one but it was my first magen david and it’s been with me through a lot of my journey towards judaism so im bummed to lose it

Anyway lol wishing y’all behatzlacha raba with prepping for pesach

[reaching-ruchnius]

my husband took the kids to the playground yesterday to give me some space for pesach prep and I received this text message about Moses. such a Moses thing to say.

[magnetothemagnificent]

So I’m actually in the beginner parts of my journey in learning more about Judaism and a question I’ve had recently but been too scared to ask about (and that your recent text post reminded me of) is … why the aluminum foil? Is there a particular religious/spiritual reason for using foil for Pesach?

After kashering (ritually cleansing) their kitchens for Pesach, many Jews take the extra step to cover their kitchen surfaces with an additional layer. Aluminum foil happens to be the most accessible and readily available option (Not everyone uses aluminum foil- my family has these neat thick, heat-resistant plastic sheets we've been using for decades, a great reusable option, but most stores don't have them). Aluminum foil is popular because it can be found at most grocery stores and is heat and water resistant, so cooking and food prep can still be done on the surfaces covered by aluminum foil. So....I guess you could say there's a religious reason, but the religious reason lies in the action of covering a kitchen's surfaces for Pesach, not in what material is used.

[supercantaloupe]

pesach seder prep well underway! menu for the evening is matzo ball soup, charoset, sauteed spinach, roast lamb shoulder (turkey breast for dad) with potatoes, sweet potatoes, and shallots. gluten free key lime pie for dessert as requested by my mom