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Saw the sparrows in the alley picking twigs up
Because it is springtime in New England, it snowed this morning.
I am coming into Pesach furious, not with the holiday, but the circumstances under which it is happening. The most, the very most important part of the Seder as observed by my family, the stripped-down, fire-and-the-place-in-the-forest core, is to open the door to the stranger. To offer them shelter and succour, to share food and freedom, not to answer the Four Questions with FYGM. And I am living in a country that makes me feel maddened not even with its indifference but with its gleeful spectacle of cruelty toward the stranger which just makes me want to go with my bare hands. Of course I am glad of this amicus brief, but what's to be glad about the the necessity of it? For travel-related reasons, my family is not holding a Seder tonight, so I will open the door, offer the wine and the matzah, say the words, try not to scream them. Next year in freedom, my mother has said for years. Zero-sum games cost us everything.
I am coming into Pesach furious, not with the holiday, but the circumstances under which it is happening. The most, the very most important part of the Seder as observed by my family, the stripped-down, fire-and-the-place-in-the-forest core, is to open the door to the stranger. To offer them shelter and succour, to share food and freedom, not to answer the Four Questions with FYGM. And I am living in a country that makes me feel maddened not even with its indifference but with its gleeful spectacle of cruelty toward the stranger which just makes me want to go with my bare hands. Of course I am glad of this amicus brief, but what's to be glad about the the necessity of it? For travel-related reasons, my family is not holding a Seder tonight, so I will open the door, offer the wine and the matzah, say the words, try not to scream them. Next year in freedom, my mother has said for years. Zero-sum games cost us everything.
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