Feeling a little Pesach Oy? M.D will turn that right around for you..
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Today’s Topic: Pesach Joy!
Every year right after Purim I get into my cleaning and organizing panic mode...err… I mean Pesach mode. This year's Purim in the Wild West theme made me holler, “Good gravy! What fresh Hamantaschen heck is this on my floor and under my cotton pickin’ couch cushions?” This anxiety mode is the kind that tends to trigger the same fight or flight response as “Lindsey Lohan, designated driver.” I need positive affirmations, breathing techniques and help; lot’s of help. I call the Cleaning Lady and explain that this is no ordinary cleaning; this will entail the oven, toaster oven, cabinets, cupboards, my car, computer keyboard; the whole enchilada. There’s only one thing, I’m kidding, I don’t have a “Cleaning Lady”!
As you can see, I am human. Pretty much every year I go through the same emotions only to find that when the chametz is removed and all is clean and organized at the start of Pesach, that I feel clarity of mind and soul. I pace myself, I put on music, I put on gloves, and the kids join in. We work on our home week by week until we are finished removing clutter from our home and removing the chametz. The anxiety melts away and the home starts to take shape. Satisfaction and joy fill our home over completing this mitzvah and I wonder why every year I make myself anxious for nothing. I use this time to tell G-d that His instructions matter to me and that regardless of how I feel at the onset, I prefer G-d’s mitzvah’s to my own ways (doing it “My Way” may have worked - or not - for Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra but not me). So in the spirit of ridding our homes of chametz and ridding our souls of chametz, Chag Pesach Sameach!
Chag Pesach Sameach!
~M.D.