(no subject)

[seekingferret]

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.

Comments

[vaznetti]

Thanks for sharing that -- I might use it tonight. And chag sameach (you're already well into the chag, I think!)

[kass]

That's beautiful.