POST PESACH REENTRY

We are now post Pesach and have reentered into our normal world where we eat leavening.  Many of us have had our ritual pizza and the last of the matzah brei until next year. Bagels, toast and pasta have reentered our diets.

What have you learned? 

The whole idea of liminal time, of time betwixt and between to use Victor Turner’s felicitous phrase, is to learn something different, something not accessible in our daily lives, something unavailable to us when we eat bagels and bread. 

Maybe you learned something from the retelling of the mythic story of our ancestors leaving Egypt?  This is a core myth of moving from a narrow place to a wide place, and there are certainly enough narrow places inside of us and in our world. What are your narrow places?  What look like wide places that you want to access?

Or maybe you might have learned  something from Nachshon’s courage when he entered the Red sea and then it parted.   Where do you need more courage in your life?

What about the messages of the strong arm of YHVH?  Where do you need more strength in your life and how can you access help in the movement that you need to make?

What about the bitterness of maror, horseradish, something I never eat any other time of the year.  Where are you bitter in your life?  How can you add something sweet, the way we added haroset to the maror and transformed the bitterness to something delicious?

Maybe you learned something from eating matzah.  What in you feels dry and needs to be fertilized by rains from the heavens?  Or what in you needs to be dried out because it is too wet and you need some sparseness? Maybe eating matzah gave you a chance to experience the dryness you needed.

What have you learned?  Please leave your comments below.