• @[email protected]
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    510 months ago

    Celery leaves specifically would probably be what they meant. You can actually use them as a substitute for parsley in cooking!

    • Flying Squid
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      210 months ago

      I think that may be what the idea was, but they definitely meant just regular celery because the conversation, which had happened a couple of times with guests when I was a kid, was along the lines of “why are you using parsley? Celery is so much nicer!”

      • NoIWontPickaName
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        210 months ago

        Isn’t the point to remember bitter times and tears?

        Seems to defeat the purpose.

        I do like that one joke/parable about the 4 rabbis arguing and god chiming in though.

        Cracks me up

        • @Skullgrid
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          Isn’t the point to remember bitter times and tears?

          Seems to defeat the purpose.

          Jewish religious workarounds in a nutshell. Here’s two videos from the same dude on the scale of these… shenannigans :

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPYp3lOOOrg

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgM0CzgnZsM

          When they’re already encircling an entire region in wire to claim it’s a house, and also claiming some dude owns all the bread in a country, eating celery seems a bit of a step down in comparison

          • Flying Squid
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            10 months ago

            To be fair, you’re conflating Orthodox (or even Ultra-Orthodox) Jews and Reform Jews, which is kind of like conflating Mennonites (or Amish) to Methodists. Same religion, very different interpretations. The latter being much less medieval in their way of thinking.

            Still no bacon though for most of them.

        • Flying Squid
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          People are weird. There was a break-off group from the temple in my town because they felt it was too progressive (not about social issues, about Reform Judaism) that my grandfather joined and then complain about them not having services on days when there was a ball game on. Like- “this temple is not religious enough, let’s form a more religious one… but only when baseball isn’t on.”