Our Jewish holidays are both meaningful and delicious. To many people Shavuos means cheesecake blintzes ice cream and other dairy delicacies. We know that we eat these foods only to remember that the Jews were just learning the halachos of milk and meat and needed time to kasher their pots so they ate dairy.
Ingestion is certainly a powerful way to absorb and digest the concepts of the Yom Tov. The culinary queens among us have ample opportunity to show off and have fun. But reluctant cooks may be sighing wearily: Didn’t we just finish eating matzoh and meat — for a week? Do we really have to hit the pots and pans again for another round of festive feasting?
The Reluctant Homemaker
We all have our different talents and interests. Although every wife is involved in keeping home each one does it differently. One likes to sew the pillows for the sofa relishing the activity of carefully hand stitching dozens of colorful beads into the fabric. Another loves to shop for the greatest bargains in home decor. Another leaves it all up to her husband or the previous owner or to chance — her interests lie elsewhere.
But when it comes to food the show must go on whether a woman enjoys cooking or detests it. If she doesn’t like the job and can find someone else to delegate it to the problem is solved. But if there are no takers she must find a way to meet her quota: 3 meals a day snacks Shabbos Yom Tov no end in sight.
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