[4768] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Passover seders...
amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 4 15:12:19 1995
Offering to host won't work (at least not this year -- we live here,
they're in Queens, and they have twelve people coming over each night).
And we've been compromising. We normally don't make a big deal about
kashrut, and Shabbat can usually be arranged such that we don't have
to violate it but the rest of the family can do whatever they want.
Certainly, one of the primary mitzvot is to retell the story. But
there are other mitzvot -- such as keeping Shabbat and avoiding
chometz -- that are equally (or perhaps more) important, and that
we are going to be compelled to break.
We don't want to force my parents into an observance where they'd
be uncomfortable, and we understand that starting at 8:00 is an
imposition on the way they'd like to do things. But they don't
seem to understand that starting at 5:30 (especially on the second
night) is a violation of the fourth commandment and something
central to our understanding of what God requires of us.
