Re: [Cz-L] Pesach

I attended the first Seder at a friend with my family and others I did not know before, some not Jewish.
The second Seder was in our home and our children and grandchildren participate and it was very festive. It gave the children lessons and formed memories. The drawback is, we are overeating with this occasion. But, it comes once a year. It is tradition, memories for us older people from our home in Czernowitz.

CHAG Same'ach to all.

Felix

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On Mar 26, 2013, at 6:08 AM, Anny Matar <annymatar_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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

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