The Night Before Pesach

In 2008, I wrote this poem for the shul just before Passover last year. As Pesach approaches this year, it seemed to me perhaps to deserve just one more time around the horn. :-) For whatever it may be worth - Happy Passover. Rabbi Bruce

A SMALL SPONTANEOUS POEM FROM YOUR RABBI • April 2009

'Twas the night before Pesach

And all through the house,

Not a bissel of chametz

Remained to de-louse.

Every corner was empty

Of crumbs and of pieces.

No chameytz or se'or

Left for any meeces.

(I should have said "mice"

But "meeces" would rhyme

With the pieces I referenced

Just above it, one line.)

So now comes the Seder

With Matzah and stuff

Meant to recall our journey

To freedom - quite rough!

But He did it - God took us

From under the whip

Through the sea and the desert

On a forty-year trip

Into chay-root - that's "freedom"

In our ancient tongue,

Now in every language we say

"His will be done!"

And one final word

For all you Messianics

About how Yeshua

Fits into these antics;

The Passover Lamb

Sacrificed for us all

Had His last Pesach meal

Before he took our fall

On Himself - our atonement

Forever He made;

“Afikomen" - "I arrived"

Is the message relayed

To untold generations

Of all humankind:

One God - One Messiah;

New life will unwind.

A sweet and a kosher

Passover to one and all;

May the Lamb in your hearts

Make the day joy in full.

Happy Pesach! ©Bruce L. Cohen 2008