#Passover

Passover is the annual reenactment of a dramatic jailbreak from Egyptian servitude, performed with bitter herbs and unleavened bread. The entire household is conscripted into a ritualistic spring cleaning to purge any trace of “leaven,” while symbolic foods line the table like grim props. Storytellers officiate an endless round of questions from wide-eyed children, testing the elders’ patience more effectively than any affliction. Hands kneading dough tremble with pious fervor, and the pile of dishes left behind stands as a monument to both liberation and drudgery. What begins as a sacred feast quickly descends into a bitter comedy, a farcical stage on which the chains of history are dutifully faked and then forgotten.