Re: [Cz-L] Pesach

1. Spring holiday - in the Southern hemisphere it is an autumn holiday.
    Unless you also believe the earth is flat.
2. When Jews come together they dont talk about freedom and slavery :
     They talk money and Czernowitz. They dont sing . Caruso sang.
3. We didn't achieve anything thousand of years ago..
      except religions , prophets and Messias and bloody religious disputes.
4. If the Pesach narrative was made as an incentive for women to clean
       their houses - it was clever thinking.
 5. The Bible is still the best story ever told.

Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marsha Spellman" <marshaspell_at_comcast.net>
To: "'Miriam Taylor'" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "'Harry Jarvis'"
<HJarvis16_at_aol.com>
Cc: "'czernowitz-L'" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 8:20 AM
Subject: 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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