Preparing to act out the exodus from Egypt, the Second Grade made pictures of the burning bush and of the 10 plagues. Their teacher added the Hebrew words, and the whole class acted out each plague, hopping for fogs and scratching their heads for lice. They turned out the lights of hoshekh (darkness).
The grapefruit brought it all back. And nothing points up our differences like a grapefruit. Everything she loves about it, save the smell, I hate.
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‘Simcha l’Adam b’sha’ah she’hu dar betoch shelo’ – ‘It is a joy to live in one’s own home’.This text from the Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Moed Katan 2:4, says it all. That doesn’t mean however, that we cannot say more about it.
