All this week I have been preparing for Passover. Cleaning is a fairly solitary activity and although I did have the TV and radio as companions for some of the work, it gave me some time to think.<\/p>\n
I thought about all of the sdarim we have had over the years. Passover has always been a very special holiday for us. It was during my visit to my husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Army post on Passover in 1966 that we decided to get married.<\/p>\n
He was the Jewish chaplain at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and that year was the first of our 40 years of sdarim. The next year, as newlyweds, we had a community seder on the first night of Passover. On the second night, we were to have had seder together and with two or three soldiers who had not been able to leave for the holiday. My husband had gone to the chapel for services. As I was waiting for him, three young soldiers knocked on the door and asked where services were. I told them, and as they began to leave, one said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And this is where we have our seder?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I answered \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That year we had thirteen unexpected guests. Fortunately, we had plenty of food as I had cooked for the whole holiday.<\/p>\n
As the years passed, we had our first child and then our second and then a third smiling face at the seder. One year I was very pregnant. One year I had delivered a baby two days earlier. Some years my husband conducted a community seder for one night. Some years my parents or sister joined us.<\/p>\n
Over the years we have had guests who were close friends, guests who were professional acquaintances, and guests from foreign countries. Every year we ended the seder saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153next year in Jerusalem.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
And as I prepared this week, I felt happy and content that we had so many happy memories and that in these years, when finally we are living in Israel, we are continuing to build memories as our grandchildren now help fill our seder table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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