And I’ve tramped Britain, and I’ve tramped Gaul

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rushthatspeaks got me a T-shirt for the Legio VI Victrix. It is centurion-red and bears the correct emblem of a bull.

There are reasons I love the people I love.

My family's seder is tomorrow night, but the sun has set; it's Pesach. Chag sameach, all.

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Is this a typical Jewish blessing?

It's a reference to a poem by Marge Piercy: "Tapuz: An Orange." It's one of the slightly melancholy cases where I am actively in support of the sentiment, but I don't very much like the poem. Oh, well. If you can find it online, I am very fond of her poem "The thief."

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't turn up "The Thief" in a quick search, but I'll keep my eyes and ears open for it.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the poem, but I like the sentiment. I hope there are pomegranates on your seder table.

Nine

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I didn't know the poem, but I like the sentiment.

Where did you get it from, then? Has it become a blessing?

I hope there are pomegranates on your seder table.

Hah. Thank you. You, too.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

We also do the orange on the seder plate. I knew Sylvia Heschel when I was in college, who was Susannah Heschel's mother and was apparently quite a pianist, but I never heard her play, because we were never in the same place as a piano. I never met Susannah, but the orange story made the rounds in Conservative Jewish circles, particularly the egalitarian ones, and it's a permanent part of our plate.

This year we also added a tomato in honor of a local religious leader who used to be a regular seder guest who helped get tomato growers to give their pickers fairer wages and went toe to toe with Taco Bell about the prices paid for tomatoes and the associated labor.

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I never met Susannah, but the orange story made the rounds in Conservative Jewish circles, particularly the egalitarian ones, and it's a permanent part of our plate.

I don't remember where I first heard it. I must have been at Brandeis, because prior to that our seder plate was probably a fairly standard Ashkenazi half-agnostic, working off three different kinds of Haggadah and the abbreviated version my grandfather had written for me and my brother in 1993.

This year we also added a tomato in honor of a local religious leader who used to be a regular seder guest who helped get tomato growers to give their pickers fairer wages and went toe to toe with Taco Bell about the prices paid for tomatoes and the associated labor.

I like that!