Chalah For Pesach
We have this penchant For outdoing Old ‘Tried and True’ Seeking incarnations For – ‘New and Improved’ But why on Earth Might we do such To a 3,000 year old Ritualized icon …Matza? Falsely Leavening this symbol Of ‘poor man’s bread’ Attendant on The exodus from Egypt
‘Twould be a chutzpah A puffery Of puffed up proportions Losing historic value Imagine – If in the Forty‐year Wilderness Some clever soul Was able to morph Manna into Marshmellows Here again… Taste may have been So‐so sweetened But likewise Purpose was lost!