Tattoos Your Rabbi Would Lose Sleep Over
Happy almost Passover! It’s that time of the year that your non-Jewish friends will tell you that they like the taste of matzah, and then you’ll tell them to eat it for 40 years in the desert and see how much they like it (or something like that).
You may be wondering what is Passover really about? Let me give you a few key words, and you can fill in the rest with your imagination: Egypt, pharaoh, plagues, Moses, bread, time-crunch, Red Sea, escape, etc. I hope that painted a picture for you. If you would like more real info about Passover here is Hey Alma’s (an excellent queer/feminist/Jewish publication) Guide to Passover.
Passover is one of my favorite Jewish holidays because it includes a few things that every holiday should have:
A little picture book alongside your meal (the Haggadah).
Dipping your fingers in your wine and drawing on your plate (you dip your pinky finger in the wine and place a drop of wine on their plate ten times to represent the ten plagues).
Making a sandwich with your entire extended family (the Hillel sandwich is matzah with charoset and horseradish as a mixture of the sweet and the bitter).
Without further ado, here are some tattoos that you Rabbi may lose some sleep over.
Mensch: someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.
“No Jonahs? Daniels? Jacobs? Calebs?” - Your Rabbi (probably)
These Mezuzahs’ love language would be physical touch.
Including that last plague really would have killed (literally) the mood of this column.
