Pesach Cleaning
I didn't go off the derech for the fringe benefits, but I have to admit that they are really nice. One of the many is that I don't have to clean for Pesach. I should still do a Spring cleaning at some point, but there's no manic scrubbing or frantic covering of counter tops. My mother gave me a whole bunch of chometz so I didn't even have to go food shopping this week! Life is good.
posted by brianna @ 10:11 PM
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Wow, a whole five years of contnious blogging for you. Quite an accomplishment!
About Pesach cleaning: from a totally secular perspective, Pesach cleaning with a spiritualistic attitude can be very rewarding. The holiday's nuances of cleanliness and freedom at the beginning of the spring are very apropos with the season..
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Come on, you is not knowink all these years how you are to mach a very fest Pysach cleanink? You must please tzi gyen in dem gesstation, buy a gellon dieseleh, spill on der floor, strike a metch, run to your insurance adjuster! Den you is spendink Pesach at a hotel you are lucky, or in de tension you iz not havink mazel so much!
Blogs are so informative where we get lots of information on any topic. Nice job keep it up!!
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I do a lot of complaining about the frum community, but I'm well aware that the secular world is a million times worse. For years, I've thought about where I'd want to raise my own kids. I always come to the conclusion that the frum world is the best one for raising children who are inquisitive, self aware, thinking and given the oppertunity to self actualize. The secular world creates complacency. No one questions their rights. They just accept it. It's when they can't do whatever they want that they start questioning. I have no interest in raising kids on a diet of IQ shriveling television, along with worship of materialism and youth. So, the frum community probably is the best place for me to raise kids even if I don't resolve my philisophical conficts in later analyses.
Is your mother crazy????? Being machti you like that?????
Your mother gave you chometz?!
Brianna, I am most interested in your transition from frum-but-free-thinking to a vocally not-religious person. I come from a place not of judgmental confrontation but true curiosity and interest.
Do you think you would be willing to post a bit about how you got from one place to the other?
Just to let you know where I am coming from, I am someone who was technically born Muslim (because my Dad was Muslim), raised in a variety of religions by a spiritually searching Mom, and now considers herself to be agnostic.
In fact, quite honestly, I have been basically agnostic from the first that I can remember.
Thanks!
That's not an easy question to answer, Siobanyan - particularly in such a public setting. Please e-mail me and I would be happy to discuss this with you.
Brianna, I am probably just being an idiot, but I can't dig up your email address on the blog. However, I'll give you mine. It's siobanyan (insert the @ symbol) gmail.com
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