Easter/Passover

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Does anyone celebrate both? I do, and was just curious if anyone else did, as well.

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Yep. I'm Jewish, my husband and his family aren't.

Let me just say that I tend to eat a lot of salad at Easter. I keep Kosher, but don't expect them to change their traditions because I won't touch some foods.

Yep. I'm Jewish, my husband and his family aren't.

Let me just say that I tend to eat a lot of salad at Easter. I keep Kosher, but don't expect them to change their traditions because I won't touch some foods.

How do you keep a kosher kitchen if your husband doesn't keep kosher?

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How do you keep a kosher kitchen if your husband doesn't keep kosher?

With great difficulty.

Actually, I live in an area where one can only dream of keeping truly kosher. So in the fine tradition of making do, I, well, make do. Keep pork and shellfish out of my house, but have given in on everything else.

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I do if my church is having a Seder; I don't do all that cooking myself, and my kitchen is NOT kosher. :laugh: There are some pretty cool parallels, though; Hebrew sons saved through the lamb's blood, Christians saved through the Lamb's (Jesus') blood...unleavened bread (leavening being symbolic of sin) being broken, Jesus' sinless body being broken, etc. Plus, our pastor's undergrad degree is in Old Testament studies, so he enjoys teaching us about stuff like that.

With great difficulty.

Actually, I live in an area where one can only dream of keeping truly kosher. So in the fine tradition of making do, I, well, make do. Keep pork and shellfish out of my house, but have given in on everything else.

There was a brief moment when I thought about transitioning my non-kosher kitchen into a kosher one. Fleeting, LOL, as I remembered that one of my kids would never give up cheeseburgers on the grill, and the other one--and my husband--would cause a ruckus if I took bacon off the menu at any point. Turkey bacon...nope, not a chance for that one to fly. And so many other examples.

I cannot avoid traif in the house, and personally I've come to terms with it all for them and myself. There's more to faith than ritual for ritual's sake; so for me and mine I let that go. BUT when it comes to the High Holy Days, Pesach...my family KNOWS and lets me dictate what does and doesn't get brought into the kitchen and/or cooked!

I do make a mean challah, but boy was it tough convincing the youngest some years back that it could NOT be put on the table for Pesach, LOL.....sorry, child, not gonna happen.

I do if my church is having a Seder; I don't do all that cooking myself, and my kitchen is NOT kosher. :laugh: There are some pretty cool parallels, though; Hebrew sons saved through the lamb's blood, Christians saved through the Lamb's (Jesus') blood...unleavened bread (leavening being symbolic of sin) being broken, Jesus' sinless body being broken, etc. Plus, our pastor's undergrad degree is in Old Testament studies, so he enjoys teaching us about stuff like that.

I always enjoy hearing about churches that conduct Passover seders in the Judaic custom. NOT so enjoyable when I hear about some pretty twisty versions that aren't so much the story of Exodus as whatever the priest (or whomever) is going for. Drawing parallels and finding lessons anew in what is old is wonderful, and frankly is what Torah teaching is all about! Finding new ways of understanding. But I draw the line when it is someone using another's religious traditions in a disrespectful manner to push their own agenda (NOT you, I'm leading up to something, LOL!)

A friend of mine some years back asked me to go over with her the steps of a seder, the Hagaddah(the Story, set into a booklet format), etc, as she was in charge of getting one set up for her Catholic church. I happily spent an afternoon with her, going over all the Jewish symbolism embodied in the service/meal, believing she would then share this with her church family. I was none too happy when she told me afterward that they had decided to "leave out" all the "Jewish stuff" and focus on whatever they believed Jesus's Last Supper might have been like. Well....what the heck were you doing asking a practicing Jew about how important the Passover Seder is to Jewish life and how to do it properly....if you weren't going to give any regard to it? Yes, Jesus' last supper /gathering was a Passover seder. But he WAS having a Jewish seder, so....why not respect that? Oh well. I was annoyed with her, but I got over it :)

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Yes, any excuse for a feast.

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