Passover seder

I've participated in a number of seders since I converted to Judaism, including some I hosted for very forbearing friends (since I was doing all the cooking and explaining the Haggaddah to people, we didn't usually eat until 10 or so. :-) But it's fun to have a crowd, as I found when a coworker invited me to her family's seder a few years ago. And I discovered tonight it's even more fun to have a *big* crowd. UUCSS had a seder in the worship space--tables, chairs, everyone bringing something to contribute to the meal, the minister (who had one Jewish parent and one Catholic) starting us off and leading us through the tricky bits, and everyone going around the room and reading part. Wine, karpas, matzah, maror, charoset. Singing, laughing, !exciting! things for little kids and little kids to be excited by it. A very community-building event, and a good way to celebrate and commemorate important principles, whatever the 'truth' about the history behind it all.

And several hours of Saturday night to relax before facing all the dishes from my cooking (I brought a Moroccan potato-egg-onion-veggie casserole) plus the ones from earlier in the week. Sufficient unto the next day the dishes thereof...

[Also had a nice game with Bryan int he afternoon, which Peter dropped in on. More about that tomorrow in The Recoiling Knight.

Gud yontif!