Good luck with the seder, babe. You know I still have those little cards you made for the pesach sheni we did ages ago with A, you know, the cute little lamb representing the shankbone and all that?
Talking of which, my linguistic fact for the year: you know the word 'pesach', it means 'pass over', hence 'passover', right? Well, 'parently it originally means the stumbling gait of a little lamb who hasn't learnt how to walk properly yet. So the Angel of Death trips along like a newborn lamb and sort of stumbles over the Israelites' houses. Isn't that a lovely image? Might come in useful for ce soir anyway.
I'd better go, I have a class to teach in the Kingdom.
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Date: 2003-04-26 06:54 am (UTC)Talking of which, my linguistic fact for the year: you know the word 'pesach', it means 'pass over', hence 'passover', right? Well, 'parently it originally means the stumbling gait of a little lamb who hasn't learnt how to walk properly yet. So the Angel of Death trips along like a newborn lamb and sort of stumbles over the Israelites' houses. Isn't that a lovely image? Might come in useful for ce soir anyway.
I'd better go, I have a class to teach in the Kingdom.
- R