Comments on Israeli by Day, American by Night: Pyromaniacs in Jerusalem

I get really tired of you preaching people that wo...

2008-04-23T14:57:00.000+03:00

I get really tired of you preaching people that won't leave a name or website so we can have a conversation over on YOUR take of the world. Should we go back to 1966? I think not. Let's not even discuss that here, however, since it has NOTHING to do with the matter at hand -- bedikat chametz.

Are you dumb or just looking for an argument? Because I quite clearly said:

After you get a symbolic amount of this forbidden food together, a ritual you perform at night, the next morning you have to burn it completely.

Don't speak English or just raring for a fight? Symbolic means "significant purely in terms of what is being represented or implied," according to Oxford. You know what that means? It means that a tiny amount of chametz, a symbolic amount, is burned. 10 bread crumbs. I see you said "that's how it is done in my home," so if you're a religious Jew why would you assume that we're over here burning loaves of bread or something dumb like that? Israel needs all the bread it can get. You think we're bathing in liquid gold or something?

Go and sit on your pedestal while your Jewish brethren, if you are Jewish, are suffering over here -- your criticisms don't help us one bit.

In a year in which the world food crisis is gettin...

2008-04-23T13:53:00.000+03:00

In a year in which the world food crisis is getting worse Israeli citizens should go back to Seized Jerusalem (before 1967) habits, and all times Jewish sparing customs. According to historical and practical common sense, during the weeks before Passover all efficient Jewish households try to consume most of the chametz they own and buy as less as strictly required fresh chametz. Then, you've only left to burn some symbolic crumbs and leftovers.
That's how it is done in my home at least....

My clothes still reek!

2008-04-23T10:15:00.000+03:00

My clothes still reek!

great photos! brought back the smell...

2008-04-23T10:12:00.000+03:00

great photos! brought back the smell...

Well it's not the whole of your chametz, like your...

2008-04-23T10:03:00.000+03:00

Well it's not the whole of your chametz, like your soy sauce and bags of rice. It's just a custom to take some pieces of chametz (10 according to the ARIZAL), scatter them throughout your house, and then go on a scavenger hunt to find them. That's after you clean the entire place. Then the next morning you take those 10 pieces of chametz (which were wrapped up so they wouldn't get crumbs anywhere), and then you burn those. So...

I had never heard of that practice.. burning chame...

2008-04-23T02:15:00.000+03:00

I had never heard of that practice.. burning chametz.. until I read this. I knew about gathering it.. here u can give to a non jew.. or "sell" it and buy it back after passover.. hmm that was very interesting.. they would not let you burn it here.