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Today is Passover Eve... Happy Passover to all the brothers who're also members of the tribe and all other assorted lovers of matzha ball soup!...

Ahhh... The true test of a NY Diner.

Mazel Tov!!

Happy Passover.

Time to take time for the family.

How do you spell "le chiem" ...... At least how do you spell it correctly ?

L'Chaim in Hebrew is a toast meaning "to life"...

Hebrew doesn't transliterate exactly to English... Therefore you'll find several English spellings... All of which would be "correct"...

LeChaim, L'Haim, LeHaim etc... "Le" literally means "to" and Chaim literally means "life"...

L'Chaim is certainly fitting for Passover... The ceremonial meal (commemorating the Exodus) includes the required drinking of 4 cups of wine... Kids get non fermented grape juice...

Nav,

This coming Sunday is our orthodox Easter. It is the biggest holiday in orthodox christianity, more important than Christmas.

During the turning of the lamb (for which I hope to be able to attach some photos) that lasts from 3 to 5 hours depending on the size, the weather,and the intensity of the coal fire, we're sitting around eating bits and drinking.
By the time the lamb is done, we've all gone past the required 4 glasses per person you propose, we're more likely into the 4 gallons of wine per head level !!!
You'll tell from the pics, the eyes won't focus; neither of the pic subjects, nor of the camera holder...

Yannis wrote:Nav,

This coming Sunday is our orthodox Easter. It is the biggest holiday in orthodox christianity, more important than Christmas.

During the turning of the lamb (for which I hope to be able to attach some photos) that lasts from 3 to 5 hours depending on the size, the weather,and the intensity of the coal fire, we're sitting around eating bits and drinking.
By the time the lamb is done, we've all gone past the required 4 glasses per person you propose, we're more likely into the 4 gallons of wine per head level !!!
You'll tell from the pics, the eyes won't focus; neither of the pic subjects, nor of the camera holder...

Sounds like a blast... And yes, I'm somewhat aware of the different Greek Orthodox holidays... We have quite a few of them back home ;-)

One thing though, it's not me who "proposes" 4 cups... That's the tradition... Having said that, while there is a minimum there's no maximum ;-)

We have another holiday, Purim which is somewhat like Halloween in that the kids get to dress up in which it's a tradition (for men) to "drink until they no longer know"...

Don't forget, though some of us look like Europeans, and others look like North Africans and some of us look like Ethiopians, we're all originally from the same Mediterranean ;-)

In fact, we have holiday (Hanukkah) celebrating us kicking Hellenic ass and being able to rededicate the Temple ;-)

Navatech wrote:Having said that, while there is a minimum there's no maximum ;-)

love it !!

Navatech wrote:In fact, we have holiday (Hanukkah) celebrating us kicking Hellenic ass and being able to rededicate the Temple ;-)

I'm not at all into religion, in fact, I don't care about any of them. It would be interesting to know what you mean by "rededicating the temple" and in what did the Hellenes bother you in doing so !

Yannis wrote:I'm not at all into religion, in fact, I don't care about any of them. It would be interesting to know what you mean by "rededicating the temple" and in what did the Hellenes bother you in doing so !

To me being Jewish is a cultural thing and therefore not a religious thing... It's my history and heritage... As for Hanukkah, the Hellenes had conquered the land and had made the Temple into a place of idol worship... The natives didn't like that so they sent the Hellenes packing... Since the Temple had been defiled by the idol worship it had to be rededicated... More information here...