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March 30, 2018 2:21 PM Subscribe
Happy Passover! Liven up your Seder with these totally-not-creepy masks of the plagues. And because the tenth plague (💀) was the best, hand out some cute toys as visual aids. For those of us who might be unclear on just what this Passover thingy is, John Kasich explains.
It would be fascinating to know how an idea like "plague masks" makes it all the way to a final product, destributed to stores and with marketing material featuring a kid wearing the lice mask. Like, did the photographers go "screw it, this is dumb so lets pick the dumbest mask for this photoshoot"
posted by Mayhembob at 2:45 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Mayhembob at 2:45 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
I’ve been to a Seder with plague finger puppets. I thought they were great.
I mean, plagues are kind of a big part of the story, as is making it kid-friendly (the four children, the asking of questions, etc.). I don’t see why this is particularly odd.
posted by leotrotsky at 3:19 PM on March 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
I mean, plagues are kind of a big part of the story, as is making it kid-friendly (the four children, the asking of questions, etc.). I don’t see why this is particularly odd.
posted by leotrotsky at 3:19 PM on March 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
Thank you. I grew up kinda reform Jew, and never heard of the mask thing, but this morning there was an article about a Seder at the local Gan Israel Preschool and I could not for the life of me figure out why the pictured kids had Pepe the Frog masks. It's still weird and creepy, but now I know it's probably just bad graphic design.
posted by straw at 3:27 PM on March 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by straw at 3:27 PM on March 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
Do you maybe need a short, neural network Haggadah?
posted by jeather at 3:42 PM on March 30, 2018 [20 favorites]
posted by jeather at 3:42 PM on March 30, 2018 [20 favorites]
My favorite are the 10 plagues finger puppets, which I own.
posted by limeonaire at 4:49 PM on March 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by limeonaire at 4:49 PM on March 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
With Passover, Easter and April Fools Day all coming together this weekend like a superbloodmooneclipse of semi-religious holidays, I'm just going to keep my agnostic ass curled up in a ball until Monday.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:56 PM on March 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:56 PM on March 30, 2018 [5 favorites]
Holy shit jeather that Haggadah is the best thing I've seen in years
posted by Mizu at 5:10 PM on March 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Mizu at 5:10 PM on March 30, 2018 [3 favorites]
Just today I was looking at Zingerman's Marzipan Passover Plague Lollipops.
posted by Glinn at 5:21 PM on March 30, 2018
posted by Glinn at 5:21 PM on March 30, 2018
Do you maybe need a short, neural network Haggadah?
"READER: The seder plate includes: the old cup, a bite of cardboard, a piece of wine, the little sweet
condiment of Egypt, the fate of a dream, the most radical of all flesh (lamb after some time), a humanist pair of gluten-free appetizers, and all the hard boiled egg of this house."
Pure poetry. You really need to click through and read the whole thing. It only gets better.
posted by leahwrenn at 5:45 PM on March 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
"READER: The seder plate includes: the old cup, a bite of cardboard, a piece of wine, the little sweet
condiment of Egypt, the fate of a dream, the most radical of all flesh (lamb after some time), a humanist pair of gluten-free appetizers, and all the hard boiled egg of this house."
Pure poetry. You really need to click through and read the whole thing. It only gets better.
posted by leahwrenn at 5:45 PM on March 30, 2018 [2 favorites]
With Passover, Easter and April Fools Day all coming together this weekend like a superbloodmooneclipse of semi-religious holidays, I'm just going to keep my agnostic ass curled up in a ball until Monday.
It's also a blue moon tomorrow morning. Pretty rad.
posted by limeonaire at 6:04 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
It's also a blue moon tomorrow morning. Pretty rad.
posted by limeonaire at 6:04 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
"READER: The seder plate includes: the old cup, a bite of cardboard, a piece of wine, the little sweet
condiment of Egypt, the fate of a dream, the most radical of all flesh (lamb after some time), a humanist pair of gluten-free appetizers, and all the hard boiled egg of this house."
"Wait, wait. I worry what you just heard was give me a lot of eggs. What I said was: Give me all the hard boiled egg of this house."
posted by sysinfo at 6:25 PM on March 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
condiment of Egypt, the fate of a dream, the most radical of all flesh (lamb after some time), a humanist pair of gluten-free appetizers, and all the hard boiled egg of this house."
"Wait, wait. I worry what you just heard was give me a lot of eggs. What I said was: Give me all the hard boiled egg of this house."
posted by sysinfo at 6:25 PM on March 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
I've been to seders which used toys during the Plagues -- covering the table with toy frogs, throwing balls of tin foil for hail, etcetera.
While I understand the desire to keep children interested, personally, I feel incredibly uncomfortable with making the plagues fun. I was taught that we pour out some of our wine for each plague because the suffering diminishes our joy.
FWIW, my favorite pop culture presentation of the Plagues was the musical number in Prince of Egypt.
No insult intended towards anyone who follows these or similar practices.
posted by cheshyre at 7:04 PM on March 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
While I understand the desire to keep children interested, personally, I feel incredibly uncomfortable with making the plagues fun. I was taught that we pour out some of our wine for each plague because the suffering diminishes our joy.
FWIW, my favorite pop culture presentation of the Plagues was the musical number in Prince of Egypt.
No insult intended towards anyone who follows these or similar practices.
posted by cheshyre at 7:04 PM on March 30, 2018 [4 favorites]
I got a random Bag of Plagues in the mail from someone who knew I would love it. Definitely not my particular style but happy it's out there.
posted by jessamyn at 7:28 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by jessamyn at 7:28 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
What's next, a happy-fun ragtime kid's song PLAGUES!? hmmmm...
BRB
posted by tspae at 10:04 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
BRB
posted by tspae at 10:04 PM on March 30, 2018 [1 favorite]
"READER: The seder plate includes: the old cup, a bite of cardboard, a piece of wine, the little sweet
condiment of Egypt, the fate of a dream, the most radical of all flesh (lamb after some time), a humanist pair of gluten-free appetizers, and all the hard boiled egg of this house."
seems remarkably accurate
posted by atoxyl at 10:34 PM on March 30, 2018
condiment of Egypt, the fate of a dream, the most radical of all flesh (lamb after some time), a humanist pair of gluten-free appetizers, and all the hard boiled egg of this house."
seems remarkably accurate
posted by atoxyl at 10:34 PM on March 30, 2018
so how quintessentially jewish neurotic is it to be ruminating on passover in the shower, hoping israeli troops think abt that fear for the firstborn and have mercy, come out of this heavy highminded shower void to find the dog ate a fucking tampon, spend the next hour+ making her puke it back wondering if god is punishing you for being ungrateful, out it comes in a flood of H2O2, tears of relief, thank you hashem, thanks ishtar for boosting with your full moon, thank you god who did not make us golems
posted by moonlight on vermont at 1:43 AM on March 31, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by moonlight on vermont at 1:43 AM on March 31, 2018 [6 favorites]
For those of us who might be unclear on just what this Passover thingy is, John Kasich explains.
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posted by zarq at 5:42 AM on March 31, 2018 [2 favorites]
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posted by zarq at 5:42 AM on March 31, 2018 [2 favorites]
> I've been to seders which used toys during the Plagues -- covering the table with toy frogs, throwing balls of tin foil for hail, etcetera.
* Frogs are the only family friendly plague, so frog toys are everywhere at your table.
* Everywhere.
* This is true even if there are no children at the Seder.
* There are so many frogs you start to doubt the existence of other plagues.
* The plague of wild beasts was actually 100 frogs in a lion costume.
* The plague of livestock sickness was actually 100 frogs in a cow costume pretending to fall over.
* The plague of hail was lots of frogs doing cannonballs.
* The plague of darkness was so many frogs they blocked the sun.
* The firstborns didn’t die, they just ran away to join roving gangs of intelligent frogs.
* F R O G S
posted by Morfil Ffyrnig at 6:52 AM on March 31, 2018 [12 favorites]
* Frogs are the only family friendly plague, so frog toys are everywhere at your table.
* Everywhere.
* This is true even if there are no children at the Seder.
* There are so many frogs you start to doubt the existence of other plagues.
* The plague of wild beasts was actually 100 frogs in a lion costume.
* The plague of livestock sickness was actually 100 frogs in a cow costume pretending to fall over.
* The plague of hail was lots of frogs doing cannonballs.
* The plague of darkness was so many frogs they blocked the sun.
* The firstborns didn’t die, they just ran away to join roving gangs of intelligent frogs.
* F R O G S
posted by Morfil Ffyrnig at 6:52 AM on March 31, 2018 [12 favorites]
LEADER: Let us drink wine for freedom.posted by pykrete jungle at 7:15 AM on March 31, 2018 [2 favorites]
(pour out your wrath)To be fair, that's a broadly applicable family holiday tradition.
WILL FIND AFIKOMEN FOR GELT
posted by not_on_display at 5:55 PM on March 31, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by not_on_display at 5:55 PM on March 31, 2018 [2 favorites]
> F R O G S
The Hebrew word for frog, tzfardeya, can be both singular and plural (just like deer and sheep in English).
There is an argument - going back to the Talmud - that the first plague was not a multitude of frogs, but rather one GIGANTIC frog.
posted by cheshyre at 6:46 PM on March 31, 2018 [11 favorites]
The Hebrew word for frog, tzfardeya, can be both singular and plural (just like deer and sheep in English).
There is an argument - going back to the Talmud - that the first plague was not a multitude of frogs, but rather one GIGANTIC frog.
posted by cheshyre at 6:46 PM on March 31, 2018 [11 favorites]
We use those exact masks at the Seder every year, mostly for my nieces and nephew, the oldest of whom is now ten and the youngest of whom is four. They are, in fact, not even slightly creepy, and the kids like them a lot. Whether you think it’s inappropriate to make plagues fun is a different issue, but my almost-Orthodox came to the Seder this year, and he liked them too. Different strokes, I guess! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
posted by holborne at 9:16 PM on March 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by holborne at 9:16 PM on March 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
Five myths about Passover (Danya Ruttenberg, WaPo)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:39 AM on April 1, 2018
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:39 AM on April 1, 2018
There is also a good ditty about the frogs. I don't think any of the other plagues have their own song.
posted by jindc at 7:49 AM on April 1, 2018
posted by jindc at 7:49 AM on April 1, 2018
Happy Passover from the Manitoba NDP Caucus
posted by Joe in Australia at 11:02 PM on April 1, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by Joe in Australia at 11:02 PM on April 1, 2018 [4 favorites]
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