Pesach!

Pesach is somehow today! Yesterday I cooked all the things.


Maybe next year I will have more of my shit together. I basically finished unpacking my apartment last week, just in time to start repacking up the chametzdik stuff.

With the new job, I couldn't justify taking the time to go home to my parents for the Sedarim, so that left making a Seder up here with R or finding a host. That second option was unfortunately taken out of our hands because R has had some leg problems the past couple weeks and can't really walk to any of the places we could have gone. So I am making my own Seder for the first time, just me and R. I'm going to miss the family Seder, but I'm really looking forward to having my own, and figuring out how to make it feel like something I have ownership in. And doing it together with R should be special.

I made matzah ball soup and potato kugel and a zucchini thingy and latkes and roasted asparagus and baked salmon and shredded chicken and flourless chocolate cookies and all the seder plate things. So much cooking. Also I made a Seder plate, using my laser cutter. Since I was customizing it, I added a space for a tapuz. :)

Chah sameach, everyone.

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Very struck by this David Zvi Kalman writing...

When you dip your finger in the seder wine cup this year to commemorate the fallen Egyptians, maybe this year don’t stop. Keep dipping your finger, from cup to plate, and then maybe put in a thumb, an index, a hand, and spill the cup like a conspicuous Elijah, like a jostled table, until there’s more wine on the table than in the glass, a drop for each plague in the haggadah’s maximalist mathematics of how many plagues were indeed visited there (because every plague is actually many plagues, you see, if you really read about it, if you would just pay attention), and now the cup is empty, the cup is overturned like we wanted, and now we’re one cup short of redemption, but next year four, next year in Jerusalem, next year in the rebuilt city, next year maybe we’ll know, we’ll really know, how to ask about what is different.