Pesach — a dip into an alternate universe far away from everything familiar: work daily activities and particularly food. Pesach is a season of celebration a time to truly feel our redemption from physical slavery to elevated spiritual realms.
If so why does it feel mostly like a whole lot of work?
A Woman’s Pesach
A woman’s Pesach is typically filled with physical labor. In the days and weeks before Pesach she is cleaning and sorting and shopping and cooking. Unless she has a full staff on hand on the holiday itself she is cooking and serving and cleaning and cooking and serving and cleaning and cooking and … for a full week without rest. Where is her “elevation?”
The only alternate universe she may be experiencing is the one found in her kitchen. Particularly if she is used to leaving her house on a daily basis the new reality of seemingly endless kitchen work can make her feel confined and trapped. Where is the joy in that?
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