forestofglory | My Passover so far

Passover started Friday at sunset. I had small seder for my family on Friday evening. My mom and Edith helped with the cooking so I didn't have to do too much work. I just made a main dish (frittata) and mazto ball soup. I think people had a nice time.

The last night I went to the seder held by my secular jewish group. It was lot of fun. The theme was modern exdous and several people told family stories of escaping from persecution, which were both interesting and moving. The meal was part catered and part potluck.

I've tried two different types of non-chametz cereal and not really liked either. Oh well, at lest I got strawberries this morning.

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darthbitsy

Nuts for breakfast. That's what I've decided. (Of course I just hid my not eating of leaven things from my parents, partly by when they made something for me eating it unless it was really risen--so being OK with pasta.)

What haggadah did you use for your family seder? I'm torn between the things I don't really like about tradition (gender, god, etc) and being attached to lots of the traditional things/find lots of the ways people try to make it more to my taste really corny. I ended up doing most of my seder biased on A Night of Questions, which dad found decidedly too conservative, but I wasn't willing to cut out things like "What Adonai did for me... for me and not for you..." that are just part of how I feel the ritual should go.

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forestofglory

I used a haggadah I put together a few years back when I was doing a seder for non-Jewish people in Iowa. I can send you a copy if you like. I suspect that mine is a bit less traditional that your ideal Haggadah. Everything is in English and their is not very much God. Though it has the bit about the hand of god and the finger of god because that reminds me of our family seders. It also has poem about robots, an orange on the seder plate, Miriam's cup, and lots of secular blessings. It could use some revision, but I tend to leave it to the last minute, and then not have time/energy before the seder.

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darthbitsy

Please do send me a copy.

I can send you what I put together, which was also edited on the fly (the four questions got lost in the shuffle somewhere. opps.) to take out Hebrew in all but the most standard of blessings. There was an orange on the seder plate, but we never talked about it (or any of the other things on the plate, actually, I think I should add that in), Miriam's cup, and the hand and finger of god out of the Maxwell House Haggadah. I think a poem about robots would be a good addition. Someone at the end of my seder started us singing Jerusalem, which I think I would like to add in "officially".

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darthbitsy

(I've also wondered if it wouldn't be a bad idea to try to get our families together for Passover again. It seems like work, but I'm not sure its a terrible idea.)