Time is short, are you ready??
Don’t worry if you’re behind. Don’t worry if you haven’t even started. Full disclosure: we haven’t started and we never do until right before. Maybe it’s ADHD, maybe she’s born with it?
Either way, here are some last-minute resources you might find useful!
Chag kasher v’sameach! Have a happy and kosher Pesach!
Free Advice:
- Free Passover Cheatsheet by Kosher on a Budget, including 67 items that don’t need a Kosher l’Pesach certification!
- Go get a haircut (some women don’t hold this way)
- Check your Amazon Subscribe & Save or any other regularly-delivered items to make sure no chametz shows up on your doorstep mid-Passover!
- You can sell your chametz online! If you’re not yet halachically Jewish, you don’t need to sell your chametz. If you are, it’s preferable to sell yours through a local rabbi, but this is a good back-up plan.
- Freshen up on your vocabulary and remember what actually constitutes chametz before driving yourself crazy cleaning your house.
- Remember to include your pets in your Pesach planning!
- Find a seder if you haven’t already!
Some songs you might find useful:
- Kadesh Urchatz (the order of the seder, sung repeatedly through the seder) by Rabbi Chayim B. Alevsky (there’s an odd echo sound but this was the best version I found of the tune I’ve heard at all the seder tables I’ve sat at – YouTube suggests there is a lot more variety in tune than I’ve personally seen)
- Mah Nishtanah with lyrics in both Hebrew and transliteration by The YouTube Rabbi (a woman, for those men who don’t do recorded kol isha)
- Dayenu by BimBam
- Chad Gadya by StandWithUs. This one includes sound effects, just like we sing at our own sedarim (our sounds are a bit different, but it gives you the idea).
Appropriate Greetings:
Chag sameach!
Chag kasher v’sameach!
Gut yuntif!
Chag Pesach sameach! (less likely, but you might see it, especially in writing)