Re: [Cz-L] Pesach

Pessach: according to my experience is a time of re-union=togetherness a
time of remembrance. In my family, Pessach was a time when, close family
converged, to celebrate it together. My uncle studied in Germany, my cousin
in Prague and another cousin married living in Warsaw. Pessach dished were
brought down, Mazes were bought at a special bakery, in our case, which my
grandfather thought the best and thinnest in Czernowitz and my cousin and I
carried it in a huge basket covered with a white sheets home . The cooking
and preparations were made and, my father, who was still alive ,tasted and
bought the wine. My God, the excitement of it all. We, children, could
barely wait for this event to happen!! Since then, the old generation died
but my children still sat at a large family table with our mothers and the
whole family. I came with my children to London, whereto the family fled
before WWII, from wherever we worked and lived Israel, Vienna, Frankfurt to
celebrate it together. We were lucky not to have been deported but everyone
of us has had to live through its own Holocaust.

Yesterday we celebrated it at home in Israel and we celebrated our FREEDOM,
As in ancient times we had been slaves and became a people. Moses had a
hard time with "them Jews" and for 2000 years we were slaves to other
nations God had nothing to do with the Holocaust but with the
Germans people's evil and the flesh-pots of Egypt. Palestine was THERE but
none wanted to leave their homes, including my parents and my brother who
died in Auschwitz in April 1944!!! Was God to blame? Israel, like a
phoenix, was built on the ashes of the millions who died all over Europe
and still so many millions are waiting for what? Will God be blamed again?
Hag Sameach, for the freedom we achieved then and now. Happy Easter "with
all the Easter bonnets"
anny
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>wrote:

> 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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