Passover’s on its way and Madeleine’s Sunday School class, accompanied by a fair number of parents, went to the source today to see how that famous unleavened bread is actually made. This particular Matzah Factory, however, isn’t in Poland or even the Lower East Side, but in Westwood, CA at the UCLA Chabad House where several of the young Chabadniks entertained the kids with their version of the Passover story. That’s Ramses, the Pharoah and Moses boogieing down, in case you didn’t know.
After the dramatics, Madeleine and the others were asked to slip out of Egypt via this Pyramid, which actually had a tunnel through it.
Then they arrived at a farm where they were instructed in the harvesting of wheat (for the matzah, of course):
And then proceeded on to:
…where they travailed, flattening that flat bread and pricking it with that strange medieval device…
…and then bringing their efforts to the baker…
… before eating them…
A real, authentic Passover Matzah has to be made in eighteen minutes, we were told, to mimic the speed our ancestors took while hightailing it out of Egypt. This took a bit longer, but it was fun. And the matzah wasn’t bad!
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12 Comments
1. Barbara Skolaut:Awwwwww. She’s so cuuuuuuute!
Thanks, Roger.
Apr 10, 2005 - 4:29 pm 2. erp:Things must be very lively Chez Simon. What a doll!
Apr 10, 2005 - 5:25 pm 3. Charlie (Colorado):Didn’t the guy in the third picture need a black straw hat?
Apr 10, 2005 - 5:28 pm 4. Scott Ferguson:So cool, Roger!
It’s great when college students reach out to teach kids in an engaging and creative way. Every generation should reach out to those older and younger, to give them a sense of place, and of community.
Apr 10, 2005 - 5:58 pm 5. Charlie (Colorado):Sunday school?
Apr 10, 2005 - 6:15 pm 6. richard mcenroe:Is Yul Brynner putting on a few pounds?
Apr 10, 2005 - 7:33 pm 7. bkochba:oooh, she’s so adorable.
I am waiting for madeleine and lilek’s gnat to have their own blogs
Apr 10, 2005 - 8:30 pm 8. JenLArt:Roger, she is completely adorable!
Thanks for sharing–and the matzos prep lesson is interesting,too
(Guess the “little girl” in all of us never dies!)
Apr 10, 2005 - 8:51 pm 9. scaramouoche:She’s delicious. Do I have a boy for her!
My almost 7 year-old son went to the “shmurah” matzah factory with his class and brought me home a sample of its wares. It had the taste and texture of fibre board.
Apr 11, 2005 - 4:25 am 10. Charlie (Colorado):My almost 7 year-old son went to the “shmurah” matzah factory with his class and brought me home a sample of its wares. It had the taste and texture of fibre board.
Sounds like matzah to me.
Apr 11, 2005 - 5:50 am 11. Fausta:Adorable!
Is Yul Brynner putting on a few pounds?
I thought that was Cedric Hardwicke. Yul went sleeveless.
Apr 11, 2005 - 7:15 am 12. Buddy Larsen:Wot a wide-smile-making series of pix…perfect fresh-air amongst the political wars…!
Apr 11, 2005 - 9:39 am