We visited five of them since last Saturday — Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia again, Virginia, Maryland again, Pennsylvania again, and then back home through West Virginia and Ohio yesterday.
It’s been a long week. Looking forward to hoisting a forbidden fermented beverage* on Sunday afternoon with the cool kids.
————
* It’s Passover. Beer contains yeast. Yeast makes bread rise. The Israelites did not have time to let their bread rise before they escaped from Egypt, thus they ate only “the bread of haste”, AKA unleavened bread AKA matzoh. Therefore, beer is forbidden during Passover — even though it’s not bread.
Look, I didn’t make the rule, I just think the rule is bullshit and don’t observe it (like I think most of the laws of kashrut are bullshit and don’t observe them, either, but that’s a story for another day). Besides, matzoh binds me up so bad I have to eat bran for a week just to clear things out.
One Reply to “Speaking of states visited”
Comments are closed.
Eh, spirit vs. letter of the law …
In Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place, there’s a moment where the family got their hands on some pork sausage. (This during a period when meat was so scarce, people’s pets were disappearing.) A Jewish scholar sheltering with them offered that surely there was a verse in Isaiah or somewhere that would allow him to eat pork under the current cirucumstances … and he was going to look it up just as soon as they finished dinner.