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Friday, April 5, 1963
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I Remember Papa
By ALFRED SEGAI
Yes, my papa at Seder, long,
long ago, in the time when I was
young. Papa gave his Seder serv
ice in English to the understand
ing of our young hearts after he
was all through with the He
brew version of Pesach.
He brought up his English ver
sion of Pesach and of Seders
after we were through with the
Seder meal. When the Seder
feast had come to its end, we
kids arose from our chairs, but
Papa bade us to sit down again
“There’s something I have to
tell you all,” he said. (There
were seven of us.) “It’s all about
this dinner we’ve all just had.
Maybe you didn’t understand the
Hebrew I spoke to you before
this meal. Now I’m going to tell
you about it in English.” (Pa
pa’s English was with a deep
accent).
So we all returned to our
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chairs to listen to papa whose
wisdom we all respected; even
though from time to time he
would spank us with a strap he
had hanging in our kitchen, by
way of warning us.
1 myself was the oldest of ’em
all, being, say about 15 years old,
and I spoke up to Papa: “Go
ahead, tell us,” and Papa went
on to give his Passover speech
to us all, though the youngest
one of us who was Eugene may
not have understood it all.
No, I can’t remember all the
words papa spoke to us on those
occasions, but I have preserved
his ideas in my heart, even unto
now when I’m well, well along
in my ripe years. He recited his
own idea of what Pesach was all
about But I keep on remember
ing one line of his speech . . .
“The Passover ideal has to do
with freedom for all the people
in the world, not just for us who
are Jewish.”
Then he went on to tell us
what freedom means to all man
kind and that we kids, as Jews,
should keep on remembering
proudly that we are of people
who were the first to rise up for
■freedom in the world. Yes, he
said, our people were slaves of
Pharaoh in Egypt and we were
brave enough to be willing to
rise up and go free. There were
no others in the world then to
stand up for their freedom.
And mama herself kept listen
ing reverently to papa, though
she had all those Seder dishes to
move from the table. Papa
paused in his speech to say,
“Thanks, thanks mama, for stop
ping to listen to me. I’ll help you
mankind. Thanks, thanks again
mama."
Then papa continued his Seder
speech to us. He quoted words
out of the Book of Exodus in
whiah Moses and Aaron spoke
up to the king Pharaoh They
were saying to Pharaoh; ‘Thus
saith the Lord, the God of Israel:
Let my people go, that they may
hold a feast unto Me in the wil
derness, and Pharaoh said. Who
is the Lord that I should harken
unto His voice to let Israel go? I
know not the Lord, and more
over I will not let Israel go . . .
Wherefore do ye, Moses and
Aaron, cause the people to break
loose from their work. Get you
unto your burdens.”
After reciting this, papa laugh
ed out to all us kids. He laughed
and said the Jewish people of
Egypt weren’t afraid They rose
up and went their way out of
Egypt against this king, and he
added that was the kind at cour
age we should be servii^ all
through our lives. He spoke up
to me, “But you, Alfred, are so
afraid. I hope on this Passover
evening you’ll learn something
from these fellow-Jews who
were so brave even againat the
king. It’s a good lesson for us
all.”
Well, papa went on to tell us
that the Jews fled out of Egypt
even without enough bread to
eat . . . "And they baked un
leavened cakes of dough which
they brought forth out of Egypt
and could not tarry, neither bad
they prepared for themselves
any victual."
“And that’s why’’ our pupa
went on, “we eat unleavened
bread, called matzos each Pes
ach, even unto now, several
thousand years later.”
Papa’s head bowed deep in
meditation, but suddenly be
raised it again . . . “Oh, mama!”
he exclaimed, “all these dUbes,"
and he got up from the table to
help her take them to the kitch
en.
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move these dishes as soon as I’m
through with telling them in
English what Pesach is all
about."
Then papa went on to speak
more to us kids. Yes, he said, we
Jewish people were the original
champions of freedom among
mankind. And, that should
make us especially proud to
be Jews and to cherish God
ward that. And on each Pesach,
who made our hearts brave bo-
in all the thousands of years,
since we have kept on thanking
God for this and to celebrate him
at the Seder.
Papa paused here to speak up
to thank mama for the Seder
feast she had cooked. As I recall,
he said: “Mama, you too, are like
a noble priest By the fine Seder
meal you cooked for us, I know
you can understand the high joy
that’s of this festival which is
the first to celebrate freedom of
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