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JrzyTmata
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Mar 26, 2011 - 8:10am |
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mmmm KosherCoke
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Location: hotel in Las Vegas Gender:
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Mar 26, 2011 - 8:00am |
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On March 26, 1861, The New York Times reported that "The Jewish Passover, a festival commemorative of the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, commenced last evening, and will continue for eight days. The origin of the festival is given in the 12th Chapter of Exodus, and the Bible prediction that it should be forever observed by the Israelites throughout the world, has this far been strikingly fulfilled. The duties imposed upon the Jews during the Passover are, total abstinence from all kinds of leaven and leavened bread attendance of the males at the Tabernacle, and cessation of business on the first two and last two days of the festival. On the evenings of the first two days, the reading of the Seder takes place in every Jewish family, the members, meanwhile, sitting round a table, on which are placed the bone of a lamb, representing the sacrifice of the 'paschal lamb,' and some bitter herbs, symbolical of the bitterness of the Egyptian bondage. After the reading of the Seder, the family chants a service reciting their bondage and deliverance. Previous to the Passover, every Jewish household undergoes a thorough renovation, corresponding to the house-cleaning process customary among Christians."In the narrative of the Exodus, the Bible tells that God helped the Children of Israel escape slavery in Egypt by inflicting ten plagues upon the Egyptians before Pharaoh would release his Israelite slaves; the tenth and worst of the plagues was the slaughter of the first-born. The Israelites were instructed to mark the doorposts of their homes with the blood of a spring lamb and, upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord passed over these homes, hence the term "passover". When Pharaoh freed the Israelites, it is said that they left in such a hurry that they could not wait for bread to rise. In commemoration, for the duration of Passover no leavened bread is eaten, for which reason it is called "The Festival of the Unleavened Bread". Matzo (flat unleavened bread) is the primary symbol of the holiday.
Gardens, Passover by Jessica Greenbaum The first seventy-degree April day takes you around the waist and because you are suddenly too warm in your sweater not only do you pull it off with annoyance, but you never want to see it again, because in those seconds it conveys your lifelong lack of vision, your foolish decisions, and you actually feel sheepish, as though conservative weather predictions cast an affront against the whole earth turning, a riff on the Day of Atonement's notion of everyone taking a twist for the better all at once, so that the entire body of people has a chance against the worse parts of our nature, à la a massive march on a spiritual Washington, the capital of human governance, or an entire population putting their back to the cosmic wheel to guide the leaning soul aright. But this season's holiday has more to do with the system of the locks on the Mississippi, the footsteps painted on the dance room floor, the recognition that getting from the here of slavery to the there of making foolish decisions on our own requires you say this first, do this second, eat this third, sing that fourth, read this fifth, up to fifteen, or forty years whenever your progress sets you down in the right place which might be today in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden where orange tulip petals glow like flashlight hoods and the wooden candelabra of a magnolia lifts two thousand ivory votives which seem to light the sky to a very, very blue, while the six- week processional of cherry blossoms incite a pilgrimage to these transient studios-some trees producing white blooms in downy, cupped fists, and others, dangling pink fingerprints the breeze touches to your bare arms when you peel off your sweater, an act which may raise your standards and soften your heart to your own mistakes, instructions given by the earth's angle on the whole orbit, the first right thing to do as a free person.
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oldviolin
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Mar 24, 2011 - 12:44pm |
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Exit2Eden wrote: Awesome!
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Exit2Eden
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Exit2Eden
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Mar 24, 2011 - 10:58am |
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Location: hotel in Las Vegas Gender:
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Mar 24, 2011 - 9:46am |
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THE VOICE OF PEACE by Jessica Greenbaum
It was just the radio, me, and the ten turkey coops in need of shovelling. Hot. Very. But— and this will give you an idea about that summer as a whole— a relief. In fact, I'd lobbied for the freedom of the coops, anything to get out of the kibbutz's kitchen with all those trauma victims pecking at me no matter how I peeled a carrot or cleaned a floor. It seems I'd fallen through some confusing crack in Israel, or my brain itself became partitioned and now I only remember the residents thwacking me in the bus queue in Tel Aviv, elbowing me at the grocery, and when preparing food they were not at their best, but I had signed on for socialism and the freedom to play a Robert Palmer album in the basement room allotted for the volunteers at night where we had more tea, more biscuits, and hallelujah, shesh besh with the other volunteers, still vivid wanderers through the orchard rows of memory. And though it was not a good match, my person and that particular kibbutz, I did find love and travelled on to Greece, and while attempting my part in the great experiment, attempting to dovetail my history with a homeland, I remember fondly the Voice of Peace coming from the corner of the coop, off and on through the static and translation, my privacy intact, my job straightforward and finite, my picture of the boat out there off all our shores, a friend to anyone who listened.
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Mar 14, 2010 - 9:30am |
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marko86
Location: North TX Gender:
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Mar 14, 2010 - 9:29am |
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It's Pi Day. Wonder what you cook for that?
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Mar 14, 2010 - 6:41am |
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it was my RP anniversary a couple of days ago...wheee
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Beanie
Location: under the jellicle moon Gender:
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Mar 12, 2010 - 6:55pm |
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cookinlover wrote: I had to Google that word... yes, yes, I do realize it means I'm a fossil.
It means you're either too old or too young. ;)
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Mar 12, 2010 - 5:40pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
I have been waiting a long time to read a new poem by you... you could right a Friday night poem, ya know...
mebbe
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(former member)
Location: hotel in Las Vegas Gender:
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Mar 12, 2010 - 5:33pm |
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triskele wrote: i like that idea!
I have been waiting a long time to read a new poem by you... you could write a Friday night poem, ya know...
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Mar 12, 2010 - 5:29pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
Happy Friday night! Let's turn it up real loud and dance! Time to party!
i like that idea!
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BluEyes
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Mar 11, 2010 - 9:14pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
Oh, yesss... that is soooo nice of you... you have my heart...
I thought that it might have a certain appeal for you.
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BluEyes
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Mar 11, 2010 - 9:05pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
I like you... hope you have a lovely Friday...
Happy Feet Friday!
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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Mar 11, 2010 - 7:01pm |
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Beanie wrote:Splunge.
I had to Google that word... yes, yes, I do realize it means I'm a fossil.
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BillJ
Location: just far enough away from NYC Gender:
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Mar 11, 2010 - 6:59pm |
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cookinlover wrote:I'd like to offer my mediocrest gratitude for your faintly heartfelt comments, my moderately disinterested friend. Thank you for giving me the benefit of the doubt.
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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Mar 11, 2010 - 6:55pm |
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BillJ wrote: cookinlover wrote:Happy missing/notmissing and staying/going, everyone!! Your inspiration allowed me to remove a piece of gum that's been stuck to the bottom of my shoe for three days. Thank you Cookinlover, and all those that are kind of like you. I'd like to offer my mediocrest gratitude for your faintly heartfelt comments, my moderately disinterested friend.
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(former member)
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Mar 11, 2010 - 6:52pm |
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See, someitimes it takes a while for a good idea to take 'hold (like, five years )
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BillJ
Location: just far enough away from NYC Gender:
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Mar 11, 2010 - 6:49pm |
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cookinlover wrote:Happy missing/notmissing and staying/going, everyone!! Your inspiration allowed me to remove a piece of gum that's been stuck to the bottom of my shoe for three days. Thank you Cookinlover, and all those that are kind of like you.
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