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Mah Nishtanah la Dr. Seuss Why is it only on Passover night we never know how to do anything right We don't eat our meals in the regular ways, the ways that we do on all other days. 1.Cos on all other nights we may eat all kinds of wonderful good bready treats, like big purple pizza that tastes like a pickle, crumbly crackers and pink pumpernickel, sassafras sandwich and tiger on rye, fifty felafels in pita, fresh-fried, with peanut-butter and tangerine sauce spread onto each side up-and-down, then across, and toasted whole-wheat bread with liver and ducks, and crumpets and dumplings, and bagels and lox, and doughnuts with one hole and doughnuts with four, and cake with six layers and windows and doors. Yes-- on all other nights we eat all kinds of bread, but tonight of all nights we munch matzah instead. 2.And on all other nights we devour vegetables, green things, and bushes and flowers, lettuce that's leafy and candy-striped spinach, fresh silly celery (Have more when you're finished!) cabbage that's flown from the jungles of Glome by a polka-dot bird who can't find his way home, daisies and roses and inside-out grass and artichoke hearts that are simply first class! Sixty asparagus tips served in glasses with anchovy sauce and some sticky molasses-- But on Passover night you would never consider eating an herb that wasn't all bitter. 3. And on all other nights you would probably flip if anyone asked you how often you dip. On some days I only dip one Bup-Bup egg in a teaspoon of vinegar mixed with nutmeg, but sometimes we take more than ten thousand tails of the Yakkity-birds that are hunted in Wales, and dip them in vats full of Mumbegum juice. Then we feed them to Harold, our six-legged moose. Or we don't dip at all! We don't ask your advice. So why on this night do we have to dip twice 4.And on all other nights we can sit as we please, on our heads, on our elbows, our backs or our knees, or hang by our toes from the tail of a Glump, or on top of a camel with one or two humps, with our foot on the table, our nose on the floor, with one ear in the window and one out the door, doing somersaults over the greasy k'nishes or dancing a jig without breaking the dishes. Yes-- on all other nights you sit nicely when dining-- So why on this night must it all be reclining Page 2 of 12
Ha Lach Ma Anya The leader asks questions in Hebrew and the child responds: Leader: Me-ayin bat(a) (From where have you come) Child: Me-mitzrayim! (From Egypt) Leader: L’an at(a) holech(et) (Where are you going) Child: L’yrushalayim! (To Jerusalem!) Leader: Tseda laderech yesh (Do you have provisions for the journey) Child: Ken, al gabi! (Yes, on my back!) At this point the child marches around the table while everyone joins in singing Halachma! YIDDISH FOUR QUESTIONS Tateh (or zayde), ikh vill dir fregen die vier kashes. Der Ershte kashe ikh vill dir fregen: Far vus is der nakht von Pesakh andisht von alle nakht von a ganze yahr Far vus alle nakht von a ganze yahr as mir villen, essen mir khometz, und as mir villen, essen mir matzoh, aber der nakht von Pesakh essen mir nur matzoh Aber kein khometz turen mir nisht essen. Hab ikh dir gefregt ein kashe. Der zweite kashe ikh vill dir fregen: Far vus alle nakht von a ganze yahr as mir villen essen mir bissere grinsen, und as mir villen essen mir zisser grinsen Aber der nakht von Pesakh essen mir nur bissere grinsen. Hab ikh dir gefregt zwei kashes. Der dritte kashe ikh vill dir fregen: Far vus alle nakht von a ganze yahr tinken mir ein mul ekhnit eyn Aber der nakht von Pesakh tinken mir eyn zwei mul Ein mul tsibele in zalz vasser, und der zweite mul khrain and kharoset. Hab ikh dir gefregt drei kashes. Der vierte kashe ikh vill dir fregen: Far vus alle nakht von a ganze yahr as mir willen essen mir ziztendik, und as mir willen essen mir ungeshpart Aber der nakht von Pesakh essen mir alle ungeshpart Yetzt hab ikh dir gefregt alle vier kashes. Heint entfir mir ein tiretz von alle vier kashes. Page 3 of 12
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