How I love the Song of Songs....

[rkold]

So anyway, I've been busy trying to get ready for Passover, for those people on my friend's list who don't know it, yes, I'm Jewish and yes, I even practice Judaism still to some extent. What this means in terms of Passover is, I need to clean my entire house from top to bottom, do lots of food shopping, and help prepare two sedar meals. It's a lot of work and I'm happy that part of Passover is now over. ^^ I'd like to thank becroberts for the really thoughtful Passover card. It meant so much to me and I'd like to wish a Happy Passover to anyone who reads my LJ and celebrates the holiday.

And yeah!!!! 2 nights down, 6 more to go!!!!

For those who are curious...



Passover is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the Jews being freed as slaves from Egypt. Think the Ten Commandments or the Prince of Egypt. When the Jews left Egypt, they weren't prepared and so carried around loafs of unleavened bread, matzoh. So to celebrate Passover, Jews aren't supposed to eat any leavened bread or products made with grain other than matzoh for 8 days and must clean their houses of all these products. On the face of this, it's not so bad, however, Ashkinazic Jews over the years went insane and decided that all sorts of other foods shouldn't be allowed during Psasover because they "expand" in water. Other foods that are not allowed are: rice, soy, corn, and legumes. If you buy pre-packaged foods go and look at the ingredients lists... nearly everything contains corn (corn syrup, the high fructose kind) or soy (soybean oil, soya lecithin, etc.) so this is a major restriction. It also doesn't help that my family is almost completely vegetarian. We eat a lot of crustless quiche, omelettes and matzoh pizza. This year I made chocolate covered strawberries for dessert.

The sedar is a service that is held on the first 2 nights of Passover where Jewish families get together and tell the story of the going out of Egypt. They explain why they eat matzoh, maror (a bitter herb), charoset (a mixture of apples and nuts...wanna guess what type of apples I used?), and why we recline at the table. The service is read from a book called the Haggadah. The Haggadah is quite old and at times goes off on weird tangents and is just proof that if the Rabbis could have, they all would have spent too long on LJs/blogs having flame wars and commenting on one another's entries. I generally find the service dull, though my brother and I always find a way to make things more...interesting



Yesterday, I was charge of cooking for Passover. Fortunately, we were getting the small crowd, which is nice cause I only like cooking for so many people. I had a minor trajedy when I opened my unopened box of matzoh meal and found bugs in it!!!!! GROSSSSSSSSSSS Why would bugs want to be in matzoh!!!!! I also think there are bugs in one of my spices!!!! EWWWWWWWWWWW I need to figure out which one so I can toss it >.< I tossed out the first batch of eggs cause of it, but I'm not sure if it was the Oregano or Basil still.

On a Passover note.... where Judaism and PoT combine... coincidentally the word "inui" (and pronounced the same way) in Hebrew means "affliction." So... you know it makes sense that Inui likes to make bitter juices that afflict his team mates....



So, during the sedar, one reads the story of the Exodus, and if one is like me, their mind wanders and soon they're thinking of other things... so last year at this time I came up with this wonderful casting of PoT into the story of Exodus.... *laughs*

Moses==Tezuka
Aaron==Oishi
Miriam==Eiji (cause you know Eiji would be dancing and singing while the Egyptians drowned)
Joshua==Ryoma (he has to lead the people after Moses...)
Jethro==Tachibana
Tzipporah==Kamio
The burning bush==Yamato XD
The Egyptian Princess who saves Baby Moses==Ohtori
Pharaoh==Keigo

It really works so well... it's almost scary.... XD And on an even more frightening note...

I turned the 4 sons into the 4 Wankbasa Fujis this year....

The actual 4 sons are the wise son, the wicked son, the simple son, and the son who doesn't even know how to ask a question....

With the 4 Wankbasa!Fujis (Shuusuke, Yuuta, Yuusuke, and Shuuta) you have the wise Fuji, the wicked Fuji, the easy-going Fuji, and the Fuji who doesn't know how the hell he ended up in the family. Anyone other than Ko want to guess which Wank!Fuji is which? *laughs*

And we're not even going to go into the song of songs and all it's wrong apple references....

Comments

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Moses==Tezuka
Aaron==Oishi
Miriam==Eiji (cause you know Eiji would be dancing and singing while the Egyptians drowned)
Joshua==Ryoma (he has to lead the people after Moses...)
Jethro==Tachibana
Tzipporah==Kamio
The burning bush==Yamato XD
The Egyptian Princess who saves Baby Moses==Ohtori
Pharaoh==Keigo

O.O Wow, that does work scarily well.

I thought of you today and wondered if you had finished cleaning. ^^; You should be happy that your bugs are keeping Kosher, though... XD;;;

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I had to finish cleaning by Monday morning because the first night was Monday night and my husband is rather observant and says you are supposed to finish the day before. ^o^

On the bright side, it's the perfect excuse to go out to eat one more time.... ^_____^

*hugs*

[xx-miyuki-xx.livejournal.com]

Wah, I miss passover...;_; my family's not religious but when I was a little shmeefer we always celebrated with our Jewish friends. It was so much fun.

-sigh- Stupid him being across the country. >_>;;

Erm, aha. /nostaliga

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Well... I think the service can be fun... it depends on how it is done... This particular year I would have to say the highlight was my brother and I joking about making a fake LJ for my Dad and making fake posts as him. I also got to talk to my sister which was a treat. ^o^

[xx-miyuki-xx.livejournal.com]

XD That sounds awesome~ I'm glad you had a good time :>

[mec]

You're very welcome. I figured you'd be very busy and might like a little card from a friend to distract you from preparation for a couple of minutes ^_^

You're going to make me paranoid about my matzoh meal now, you know. We've finally managed to locate it at our local supermarket (you would *not* believe how good the staff are at hiding anything you could possibly want so that it takes you half a year to find it), I shall be afraid to open the box now!

On an unrelated note - do you recall some months ago when we were talking about yaoicesty novels, and I mentioned a trilogy about three brothers? I've been skimming the second one, and it just keeps getting more and more wrong. (Telepathy makes it worse - the youngest brother accidentally broadcasts to the other two his visions of the two of them *together*...)

I'm guessing Yuusuke as the Fuji who doesn't know how the hell he ended up in that family, Syuu as the wicked Fuji, Yuuta as the easy-going Fuji (now that he's domesticated)...no, wait, Shuuta definitely isn't wise. Uh... Wise!Yuuta, Easy-going!Shuuta?

[rkold.livejournal.com]

The card so brightened by day because it was so unexpected and cause I love hearing from people. ^_^ I love my RPG, but sometimes I feel like it has taken over my life.... I still have so many things I ought to be doing... ^^;;

This was an unopened box of matzoh meal from last year. ^^;; I thought why waste more money on more matzoh meal I won't go through.... ^^;;;;

And nope on the Fujis XD You got Yuusuke as the Fuji who doesn't know how the hell he ended up in the family right though. ^o^

[mec]

Right, take 2. Could Yuuta be wiseFuji, Syuu be easygoing, and Shuuta as wicked? (As for Yuusuke...well, I still want to declare him endangered and kidnap him for his own protection ^_^)

We don't use much of it, just for gremslach and kneidlach, so don't tend to buy that much. (I have no idea if I'm spelling these anywhere near correctly, mind you...)

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Shuuta is the wicked most definitely XD Yuuta is the easy going one now and Syuu gets to be the wise now that he's finally learned a lot. ^o^ On one hand, Yuusuke doesn't really want to be rescued, he just needs to accept the fact that he also likes his brother back *snickers*

I can't spell those transliterations either. ^^;;;

And woot! 4th night!

[dilettantka.livejournal.com]

The Haggadah is quite old and at times goes off on weird tangents and is just proof that if the Rabbis could have, they all would have spent too long on LJs/blogs having flame wars and commenting on one another's entries.

*falls over* OMG! You're right!!! XD

PoT exodus.. i love you.. XD

[rkold.livejournal.com]

See the wrong fusions aren't just Kim, I do them too and when we get together..... *laughs*

Oshitari and Gakuto can be Pharaohs' wizards who are able to make frogs and turn water into blood also...

And you know Shammai and Hillel would be having flame wars over religious practice... I cna just see the whole candle debate now.... *dies*

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

I love the comment about the Rabbi LJ flamewars! Hope you have a great Passover! Bob and I aren't very religious, so we don't really do Easter, and I kinda miss that, actually. The Church service (with the fire and brimstone sermon, of course!), and the new clothes, and the easter eggs and baskets and all that. Maybe I'll go watch the Ten Commandments tomorrow. Yul Brynner sure made a good-looking Pharaoh, I tell you! Prince of Egypt wasn't too bad, either. I liked the songs, especially.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Oh they so would, if you ever read some of the fights those ancient Rabbis use to get into....

It's really rather amusing... I'll have to freak out my observant relatives by sharing. It makes it/them seem more real.

The Haggadah has a bit of fire and brimstone to it, my favorite part being God talking about how "I and not a fiery angel" came and smote the Egyptians.

Personally, I adore Easter chocolate and can't wait for it to go 50% off on Monday.... XD

[rkold.livejournal.com]

hehehehehehehe well I'm somewhat observant at times, but I don't let it stand in the way of my hobbies. ^_^

I'm pleased you enjoyed the casting *laughs*

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking this is the parting of the Red Sea - "let my people go"? Anyway, have a good Passover. ^__^

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Yeap! Yeap! That's the story. ^_^

I'm very happy cause the holiday is now almost half way over, though this year hasn't been that bad yet....

(well other than the bugs... >.<)

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmmmm, bugs. *munch munch* ;P