Next year, I\u2019ve decided to make our seder more efficient. I think that, just before the story of the Exodus, we\u2019ll serve the soup and appetizers. Then, while we\u2019re eating dinner, we\u2019ll have the third and fourth cups of wine. We\u2019ll have dessert while we\u2019re singing. In fact, I believe that all seders that don\u2019t multitask like this aren\u2019t following halacha.<\/p>\n
Why, you ask?<\/p>\n
Because serial isn\u2019t allowed on Pesach.<\/p>\n
P.S.: Wondering about the title of this post? Here\u2019s the explanation. When the Prime Minister of Israel came to Washington last year for a state dinner, his protocol officer decided to bring in a kosher chef and offer a truly Jewish meal. At the dinner that night, the first course served is matzo ball soup. President Bush looked at this and after learning what it is called, he told an aide that he can’t eat such a gross and strange-looking brew. The aide says that the Prime Minister would be insulted if he didn\u2019t at least taste it. Not wanting to cause any trouble (after all, he ate sheep’s eye in honor of Arab guests), Bush gingerly lowered his spoon into the bowl and retrieved a piece of matzo ball and some broth, hesitated, and swallowed. A big grin appeared on his face. He liked it, so he dug in and finished the whole bowl.<\/p>\n Afterwards, he asked the Prime Minister: \u201cThat was delicious. Do you Jews eat any other part of the matzo?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next year, I\u2019ve decided to make our seder more efficient. I think that, just before the story of the Exodus, we\u2019ll serve the soup and appetizers. Then, while we\u2019re eating dinner, we\u2019ll have the third and fourth cups of wine. We\u2019ll have dessert while we\u2019re singing. In fact, I believe that all seders that don\u2019t Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1],"tags":[465],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism-2","category-lj-xfer","tag-pesach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}