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Passover, Passover, Passover\u2026 I love it today.  I loved it when we lived at 25 Alston Avenue.  I can remember that in advance of the Holiday a station wagon would drive up to our house and park in the driveway by the basement window to our store room\u2026 and also Mommie Soph\u2019s \u201cduplicate kitchen\u201d.  The window would be opened and the guy would off load the necessary supplies for the Passover week.  I have no clue what was included in the delivery other than matzah and dessert stuff \u2013 pound cake, macaroons & Bartons\u2019 candy.  We know it wasn\u2019t gefilte fish\u2026 Mommie Soph had that well covered!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here we are today.  Trying times.  Yes, there are light hearted stabs at equating  this virus as a plague that Moses over looked in bringing the Pharaoh to heel.  But I\u2019m thinking about this hand washing thing.  And it brings me full circle to our Passover table at 25 Alston Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curious isn\u2019t it for our highly-reformed-enjoying-the-festivity-of-Christmas<\/em> family to have a pretty much by-the-book Passover Seder!  But we did!  And it included the several times that Dad would go into the kitchen to wash his hands!  No foolin\u2019.  I have handled Seders for years, and have never done the hand washing steps! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with all our present concerns regarding health & safety we have become hand washing noodniks!  But tonight, I\u2019ll put my sarcasm aside, and in my memory return to our table at 25 Alston Ave, when on cue Dad would dutifully head to the kitchen to wash his hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dish, sometimes overlooked, that Mommie Soph would prepare: eggs in salt water<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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