A Seder for Two

Bitter and Sweet

We were invited to many places to celebrate the Seder Night this year. It feels like love.  People know that our children are overseas and they are making sure that we don't spend this important night alone, so they invite us.

We settled on the home of good friends, but on Friday night they had a death in the family and flew overseas.  Their heart is so generous - they left the house and everything else ready for Passover and told all their guests to go ahead without them.  Yes, they even left the keys. This is an unusual generosity I had never encounter before.

However, I did not feel right celebrating the Pesach in their home while they are mourning overseas. Instead, we are praying for them for comfort and wisdom and we are waiting for them to return. 

So where do we spend the Seder night? One cannot just not do it!  This is the first day of our national freedom and the first day of our Biblical year. 

Exodus 12:21  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take a lamb for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover.

"According to your families" - for us at this point in time, since the rest of our family is spread all over Israel and the globe - I am his and he is mine; we decided on a Seder for two.

It was grand. We lit the candles and read the Hagada. We ate all the traditional foods, except 'gefilte fish' which we are not fond of. We sang the songs; we drank the wine and the Champagne, and we praised God. 

When we completed the Seder, we went for our evening walk and gazed together at the full, bright and white moon and at all the windows of the neighbors. . 

A perfect night for two

105th day of praising God in 2014 -

Thank you Lord for giving us each other and for a Romantic Seder for two

Content,

Orith