Reasons why passover is like christmas

[jack]

Some people automatically associate Hannukah and Christmas, because they occur at the same time of year, but in terms of similarity, passover and christmas are a much better match.

Reasons (mostly tongue in cheek) why passover is like christmas:

* It's traditionally the big family get together of the year
* The one celebration that people tend to hang on to, even if they leave the culture entirely
* It's traditionally built around a big meal
* And traditional songs
* And ritual hats
* And presents
* And crackers (well, sort of)
* Even though the original story is a bit gory
* And you put a cup of wine out for a supernatural entity who sneaks in when you're not looking and drinks it, and will decide whether everyone's been being righteous or not

Comments

[redbird]

Ritual hats?

I don't think I've ever seen someone wear a hat at a seder, unless you count the basic yarmulke, which some men in my family wore all the time.

[jack]

Ah! Yeah, I'm most familiar with families where (a) people tend to wear yarmulke on special occasions and (b) egalitarian observant women can wear yarmulke if they want, so to me, yarmulke are associated with seders more thna with being male, even though for many people that wouldn't make any sense at all :)