#20: Yom Kippur
on September 26, 2017
at 8:04 am
Have a grim and remorseful Yom Kippur everybody! May your fast be easy, and if you’re like me and have a medical exemption from it, try not to stand in front of your fellow tribesfolk while chewing a large sandwich . . . slowly . . . slowly . . . making eye contact with each person filing out of the synagogue. Or maybe you should, I dunno how much you like your congregation!
Not everybody – I daresay not even every Jew – knows that people observing Purim are *supposed* to drink so much they can’t tell the good guy from the bad guy š
*blink* It’s in the Talmud, and I certainly got it in Hebrew School (and many times afterwards). She’s quite right that Purim is even more of a drinking holiday than Passover — not least because while at Passover, most hard alcohols are not kosher (not counting schlivovitz), the hard stuff is definitely -on- for Purim. Also, Purim is the most fun Jewish holiday–in a people often prone to modest and conservative dress, it’s a day devoted to drinking, funny and even ribald costumes, dancing, and noisemakers.
That said…there’s nothing in Passover saying you have to stop at four, just that you have to have those four. We ran a larp on 7th night this year (a larp set at a seder, not entirely coincidentally; in this case set at a conservative Jewish house and therefore following most customs) and we had some players finish a bottle of wine in between “cups”.