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TURKISH AIR
AND THE MA NISHTANA
“Mby Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff probability of a bris on erev Yom Tov or weeks before Pesach, complicated mat-
a Nishtana halaila hazeh….? on Yom Tov itself. With Pesach coming ters, particularly since I was scheduled
On all other nights we eat on Sunday night, it meant that, should to give a Shabbos Hagadol drasha in
chometz or matza, but on this she have a boy, it would be impossible our neighborhood in Yerushalayim.
night we eat only matza….” or at least very difficult for me to attend
the bris. I admit to a lot of disappoint- Then again, it might be a girl. But
◆◆◆ ment; up to that time, I had not missed after three girls, we were all hoping she
a single bris of any of my (at the time, would have her first son. Like all good
Those of us who live in Israel but nine) grandsons, two of which involved parents, we try not to call too often
have children and grandchildren living my spending Shabbos in Flatbush, when our children are expecting so as
in chutz la’aretz, or vice versa, will cer- where my son lives with his family. But not to be nudnikim. But by now we had
tainly identify with my predicament. My the timing of this baby’s arrival, two decided that, should there be a boy, I
daughter, who lives in New Jersey, was would resign myself to watching the
expecting right before Pesach, with the
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AND THE MA NISHTANA
“Mby Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff probability of a bris on erev Yom Tov or weeks before Pesach, complicated mat-
a Nishtana halaila hazeh….? on Yom Tov itself. With Pesach coming ters, particularly since I was scheduled
On all other nights we eat on Sunday night, it meant that, should to give a Shabbos Hagadol drasha in
chometz or matza, but on this she have a boy, it would be impossible our neighborhood in Yerushalayim.
night we eat only matza….” or at least very difficult for me to attend
the bris. I admit to a lot of disappoint- Then again, it might be a girl. But
◆◆◆ ment; up to that time, I had not missed after three girls, we were all hoping she
a single bris of any of my (at the time, would have her first son. Like all good
Those of us who live in Israel but nine) grandsons, two of which involved parents, we try not to call too often
have children and grandchildren living my spending Shabbos in Flatbush, when our children are expecting so as
in chutz la’aretz, or vice versa, will cer- where my son lives with his family. But not to be nudnikim. But by now we had
tainly identify with my predicament. My the timing of this baby’s arrival, two decided that, should there be a boy, I
daughter, who lives in New Jersey, was would resign myself to watching the
expecting right before Pesach, with the
96 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
