Passover meal 2015 in Spanish: My blog post.

I was fortunate enough, five years after my first Passover meal with Lucy Steinitz, to participate and eat at a synagogue. The place this time was Cape Town, with the students from the South African Society of Jewish students, They asked me to read in Spanish the questions posed by the child - why on this night do this, when on all other nights we do anything we please

The verb in Spanish I was missing was recostarse, to recline. I finally found it by reading the Gospel according to John, chapter 13, when the disciple who Jesus loved leaned on his bosom. Peter, for some reason, asked this disciple to let him know - and the others - who is the traitor of whom Jesus. ¿Quién era aquél de quien habalaba Jesús?

I think this is a very romantic part of the gospel - perhaps even homoerotic. 

At the seder, the order, the meal I took place tonight, there was amazing food, sining, dancing even (when we opened the door for Elijah to come in, the door of the building that also serves as the cultural center for Jewish muesuem - the Holocaust center where last year on the day before my birthday Rabbi Greg Alexander, Imam Hendriks and Catholic James Alexander talked about homosexuality and faith). I think I feel for one of the boys at the table.

As it turned out, at the end of the dinner I gave him a hug goodnight.

"Will I see you again?"

"Do I have your digits"he asked.

"No, take mine"

"Well I can't "he seemed to have his phone off.

So I took his number, Jared's number. Who knows what will happen. He leaves Thursday. 

Good night. Blessed Easter it is.