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Angie and I had the pleasure of attending a Passover dinner put on by the University a few weeks ago.  It was a great experience to learn about traditions that have been passed down for nearly 3,000 years.

The Seder Service aka Passover meal was very detailed and we took lots of good notes.  Definitely, one of the most striking and unforgettable elements of the evening was the eating of the bitter herbs.  The herbs are to remind how bad slavery was, and I’ll tell you, after the eating the herbs, it was bad.

The professor that prepares the Seder Services each year may do 20 in a year, and his wife attends them all.  She said that the herbs we tasted on a scale of one to 10 (10 being the highest bitterness) were a 9.5.  The herbs are to evoke tears, and they did a pretty good job.  We had a Jew at our table and she said that the herbs were very very strong.

The evening was extremely enlightening especially the part of relating to the Afikomen which is the last food to be eaten (a Matzah-unleavened bread that is broken and shared among the participants) followed by the fruit of the vine.