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hatam_soferet) wrote2006-04-17 11:09 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2006-04-17 11:09 pm
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We found an expensive cellphone lying in the street today. The phonebook entry entitled "Me" routed itself back to the cellphone, so we tried the one labelled "Daddy," and Daddy was able to put us in touch with the owner of the phone, and they are now happily re-united.
As our reward, we found matza meal. Matza meal is flour which has been mixed with water, baked into crackers, and ground up again into something which is essentially flour.* Leaving aside the question of why on earth one would want to do this, the fact remains that matza meal is a Good Thing to have on Pesach. There was none to be had in Riverdale; even the Glatt Kosher Shop was sold out, and the proprietor thought there was none to be had in the shops or in the markets or in all the gardens round...anyway, down the hill there's a greengrocer's, Spanish-owned I believe, it's in the Spanish area anyway, and we go there because the veg are so much nicer than up here in Jewtown where they don't eat real food...I digress; the greengrocer's had a whole shelf of Pesach things, and the shelves were covered over in paper in a terribly Pesach-dik way,* and there was matza meal and cake meal and Pesach cakes and chocolate matza, and all kinds of good stuff. I've made brownies.
And I remembered, this afternoon, that I'm reading Torah on Wednesday, and it would really be a spiffy idea to get on and learn it, being as how it's the Song of the Sea, with special tunes and special typography and all kinds of bells and whistles, and it's a long piece, and it's really a good plan to leave more than two days for learning something like that...
* It handles more or less like flour. Presumably it's chemically altered, but it looks the same.
** an essential part of Pesach preparation for many is lining all shelves with paper, plastic or foil.
As our reward, we found matza meal. Matza meal is flour which has been mixed with water, baked into crackers, and ground up again into something which is essentially flour.* Leaving aside the question of why on earth one would want to do this, the fact remains that matza meal is a Good Thing to have on Pesach. There was none to be had in Riverdale; even the Glatt Kosher Shop was sold out, and the proprietor thought there was none to be had in the shops or in the markets or in all the gardens round...anyway, down the hill there's a greengrocer's, Spanish-owned I believe, it's in the Spanish area anyway, and we go there because the veg are so much nicer than up here in Jewtown where they don't eat real food...I digress; the greengrocer's had a whole shelf of Pesach things, and the shelves were covered over in paper in a terribly Pesach-dik way,* and there was matza meal and cake meal and Pesach cakes and chocolate matza, and all kinds of good stuff. I've made brownies.
And I remembered, this afternoon, that I'm reading Torah on Wednesday, and it would really be a spiffy idea to get on and learn it, being as how it's the Song of the Sea, with special tunes and special typography and all kinds of bells and whistles, and it's a long piece, and it's really a good plan to leave more than two days for learning something like that...
* It handles more or less like flour. Presumably it's chemically altered, but it looks the same.
** an essential part of Pesach preparation for many is lining all shelves with paper, plastic or foil.