The story of Passover
A little boy returned home from Hebrew school and his father asked, “What did you learn today?”
He answered, “The rabbi told us how Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt.”
“How?” the father asked.
The boy said, “Moses was a big strong man and he beat up Pharaoh. Then while he was down, he got all the people together and ran to the sea. When he got there, he had the Corps of Engineers build a huge pontoon bridge. And then when they got to the other side, they blew up the bridge while the Egyptians were trying to cross.”
The father was shocked. “Is that what the rabbi taught you?!”
Said the boy: “No. But you’d never believe the story he did tell us!”
Health advisory
A group of leading medical experts has published data indicating that seder participants should not partake of both chopped liver and charoses. It is indicated that this combination can lead to “charoses of the liver.”
Little-known Pesach facts
Passover in Australia is called Passunder.
There’s a new whole wheat and bran matzah fortified with Metamucil. It’s called “Let My People Go.”
Fifty-seven percent of families save money by using last year’s matzah (with 95 percent of them claiming it tastes no different than new matzah).
Maror is a better medicine for sinuses than any prescription.
The best way to differentiate between gefilte fish and all the other fish in the ocean is that gefilte fish are the only ones with carrots on their backs.
Let those people go
The story of Passover has been known for generations. What has not been known is why Pharaoh, in the face of such overwhelming evidence, would refuse to release the Jews after the first nine plagues.
It took 11 years of research by some of the world’s leading psychologists, anthropologists and linguists to find the answer. Finally, after pouring over the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient materials, they had the answer:
The Pharoah was still in de Nile.