Growing up, my grandmother said that if you sing at the table you will marry someone strange. Grandparents can say those things and I won’t think too much about where the saying actually came from.  Only later though I put together how much singing at the table went along with the celebration of Jewish holidays, from Shabbat dinners to that strange ceremony, the Passover Seder.  There is something about singing at the Seder table and the Shabbat table and once in a while just on a regular day that teaches that to remember what it was like to be strangers we might have to be somewhat strange as well.


haggadah Section: Hallel