{"id":2779,"date":"2022-04-17T18:55:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T18:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2022-04-17T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T20:55:48","slug":"cascading-seder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"Cascading Seder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Charoset-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Charoset-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2780\" width=\"321\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Charoset-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Charoset-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Charoset-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Charoset-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Charoset-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all the words of two Passover Seders, what remains? \u2014 meaning unsayable.\u00a0 After flowing wine, a vertiginous sea, questions of morality and freedom, of being a stranger and redemption, after provocations, interruptions, questions posed with incomplete answers \u2014ah!\u00a0 The inchoate feeling.\u00a0 A floating satisfaction.\u00a0 After all the words, no words.\u00a0We straddled time \u2014 we are slaves, we are part of the redemption \u2014 and we sat at a table eating fresh fish cooked in spices with fiery sweet potatoes.\u00a0 The cat stretches her back.\u00a0 It was a verbal catharsis that, in Avivah Zornberg\u2019s witty terms, rephrases Wittgenstein: \u201cWhereof one cannot speak, one must say everything.\u201d\u00a0 We talk and keep talking and will talk as long as we can.  \u201cIt,\u201d absence or mystery and longing for full presence, will elude our desires to fix or define, and we will long after it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We walk outside, feel the spray of rain on our faces, soft wisps of air that are not-bombs, soft clouds-not-plagues, nighttime smell of magnolia mixed with darkness and awakening mud.&nbsp; The happening happened and meaning was made.  The happening is happening and meaning is being made.  We don&#8217;t even have to say Dayenu!&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the words of two Passover Seders, what remains? \u2014 meaning unsayable.\u00a0 After flowing wine, a vertiginous sea, questions of morality and freedom, of being a stranger and redemption, after provocations, interruptions, questions posed with incomplete answers \u2014ah!\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-IP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}