The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2012 - Page 16
Purim at Temple Or Olam
Certainly, there will be haman-
tasehen. We’ll bring eanned goods
and donations for the poor, and
perhaps we’ll even gift our friends
and family with something good
to eat. We’ll definitely laugh, and
it will probably be a little too loud,
but we have a good time together.
In past years, we have had
Purim Shpiels written by eongre-
gants and performed by adults;
this year we’re looking forward to
a performanee or two from our
ehildren. Rumor has it, in addition
to a skit, they plan to do something
ealled “the eup game” whieh will
probably end up getting a little
raueous but will almost eertainly
eulminate in ehildren trying to
teaeh their parents how it goes.
In addition to all of that, we’re
likely to be visited by a 2,000 year
old man (or possibly woman), a
group of muumuu wearing women
who are far more eharm- ^
ing than talented, and a
trio of singers who have
very little in eommon with
the Andrews sisters and
will likely sing nothing
about a bugle playing boy
from Company B.
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Of eourse, very little of this is
set in stone (beyond the haman-
tasehen and tzedekah), but as
Purim approaehes, we
0 eneourage you to visit our
website (www.or-olam.org)
j and get the latest updates
regarding our Purim
pageantry. This year’s party
is seheduled for Mareh 10.^
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Everyone knows we eat matzah on Passover because in their haste to leave Egypt the Jewish
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the beginning of the Seder and proclaim: “This is the plain poor bread our parents ate in the land
of Egypf’? The Midrash tells us the Egyptians would feed the Jewish slaves matzah rather than
bread because it was more filling and took longer to digest. Is matzah the paradigm for freedom
or a symbol of slavery? The answer is both. The commentaries say this dichotomy is alluded to
in two of the laws of making matzah: 1) Matzah which is kosher for Passover has to be baked
within 18 minutes from the time the flour is mixed with the water. The haste of this time limit
relates to the aspect of freedom. 2) The matzah for the Seder can only consist of flour and water
with no other added ingredients such as fruit juice or eggs which relates to the aspect of the “plain
poor bread” of slavery.
To carry this dichotomy a step further, the Maharal of Prague called Passover the holiday of
opposites. Just like one cannot appreciate light without experiencing darkness, health in the
absence of sickness, or even answers without corresponding questions, so to we needed slavery
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Most people are not aware —
and I was one of them — that air
ports have ehaplains. What, you
ask, does an airport ehaplain do?
Being as 39 million pass through
CLT annually and there are over
about 18,000 employees, it stands
to reason that someone will need a
ehaplain.
I found out about the eoneept of
airport ehaplainey from a friend in
Dallas; he said it was done on a
volunteer basis and that most air
ports had ehaplains. The next time
I was in CLT I went to the
Information eounter and diseov-
ered that our loeal airport has a
ehaplain; I ealled and we arranged
a meeting.
George Szalony, a lovely man
who is a Deaeon in the Catholie
ehureh (only priests take eelibaey
vows; he’s a grandfather), is
assisted by a loyal female ehaplain
who probably spends more time in
the airport than any other ehap
lain. They explained that they real
ly appreeiated my getting in eon-
taet with them beeause they want
all faiths represented in the air
port. They mentioned that the
lion’s share of my time would be
spent with the airport employees,
not with the passengers. Of
eourse, there will be situations
when passengers need assistanee
but mostly airport workers who
are under mueh stress really are in
need of someone to talk to. The
meeting went well and then eame
a day of orientation. I astonished
at how large the airport is and how
many employees the ehaplains
reaeh. Aliee White, the ehaplain
who initially interviewed me with
George, is a woman in her mid
sixties whose aeeent and speeeh
pattern immediately give away her
southern roots. She introdueed me
to everyone as the new ehaplain; a
Jewish Rabbi. I was a novelty to
almost everyone and was shoeked
to find poekets of Jewish employ
ees everywhere. In faet, within the
first week when word got out that
there was a Jewish ehaplain, a
member of the tribe asked to meet
me.
After getting seeurity elearanee,
I was ready for my first day on the
job. As I went through seeurity,
the TSA agent who eheeked my
badge said, “You know I haven’t
been to Temple in a long time; I
know I should.” I never would
have guessed from his name or
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