Re: The Birds and the Bees of Gender

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:03:05 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>>  "minwen jayeh?  mimissrayim."
>>  "fen rayikh? liyerushalayim."
>>  "ishu zawatak?  massah umaror."
>What's this?  It doesn't look like R.
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It's part of a Sephardic Passover Seder-night "ceremony" that is a
"dramatization/recreation" of the exodus...the questions are in some
dialect of Arabic, and the answers are in Hebrew:

"where are you coming from?  from Mitzrayim (Egypt)."
"where are you going to?  to Yerushalayim (Jerusalem)."
"what are your provisions?  matzah (unleavened bread) and maror (bitter
herbs)."

It begins with a biblical verse ("mish'arotam....", i don't know where
exactly) that describes the Israelites leaving Egypt with their sacks
over their shoulders.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "eze'nyih-telos therotz sudviht..."
  (that *is* Rokbeigalmki :) - "do not fear sudden terror")

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