RE: [Cz-L] Pesach

Passover is a religious holiday, a spring holiday, a time to bring together
friends and family to eat and sing and talk about freedom and slavery and
those who were once slaves and those who are still struggling to be free.
It is the sweetest holiday since we share it with young and old. If anyone
doesn't believe in the history, so be it. We have a humanist jewish
congregation, rabbi and all, in Portland. They still do Passover. That is
the great thing for Jews, we come in all beliefs.

>From one of my favorite authors, Chinua Achebe of Nigeria, whose writing and
thoughts about culture and change, influenced me when I read him in college,
many years ago. He passed away this week.

"A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from
starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in
the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see
it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to
do so."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

 "There is no story that is not true."
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Chag Sameach, Marsha
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Taylor
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Pesach

PESSACH is not necessarily a strictly religious holiday.
It is also a spring festival and a celebration of our freedom, which even if
we achieved it thousands of years ago, we should remember and be thankful
for, for ever.

Along the way it also became the time of year, when women thoroughly cleaned
their houses and when people, at least symbolically, opened their houses to
the poor, to come and eat with them.

Mimi

On Mar 25, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Harry Jarvis wrote:

> I am surprised at the large numbers of our group who celebrate the
> improbable Exodus with fervour. As a Humanist I find
> preoccupation with a divinity odd. I am proud that one third of
> the worlds Nobel Prize winners are Jews and am sad that we have
> deviated so far from our objective of historical research and
> information about the Bukovina. With my family incarcerated, with
> thousands, during WW2 the was no rescue offered from Above. Harry
>
>
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