First, Abacaxi Mamao gets a little nervous:

I went to the hardware store in search of an inexpensive pot for boiling water. My sister owns only fleishig [meat, or meaty if you're a Brit] pots for Pesach, and my aunt, the coffee devotee, needed something in which to boil water that would then be used to make coffee to which milk would be added. Hence, my quest.

The clerk at the hardware store questioned my desire to purchase “the cheapest pot you’ve got,” so I (stupidly?) explained that I just needed it for Passover and it didn’t need to be anything fancy, just something that would boil water.

“Oh, Passover,” he said. “Where are you going to get the blood?”

Read the rest of the post to find out what happens.

And check out Lion of Zion, as he documents the once widespread practice of comparing bitter herbs to bitter women– at the Pesach seder.

He captions the picture above as follows:

The wife holds a double-edged sword, alluding to Proverbs (4:5): “But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.”

Hag sameach and Shabbat Shalom.

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