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Terra Naomi's Passover Handbook for the Non-Jew

It's not every year you get to experience the wonders of a Non-Jew at the Seder table, so this year was EXTREMELY special for the Naomi family.

We welcomed James Gunn, a non-Jew and first time Passover celebrant, and we took this responsibility seriously.

In honor of James' first big Jew experience, I created a special welcome handbook, which I will now share with all of you.

Who knows - maybe someday, in this melting pot of a country we call home, my informative booklet will be standard issue at Seder tables nationwide.

And now, with great pride, I present:

TERRA NAOMI'S PASSOVER HANDBOOK FOR THE NON-JEW
Click on the above link to download your very own copy of my handbook!

And be sure to read all about James' Passover experience on his website!
JAMES GUNN'S PASSOVER BLOG

Tags: gunn, handbook, james, naomi, non-jew, passover, seder, terra

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Comment by Stephanie on April 19, 2009 at 3:42pm: That was interesting! I learned something!

Comment by downtowntrash on April 17, 2009 at 11:38am: you little minx... lol

Comment by Caryl on April 16, 2009 at 3:27pm: Lol! Your handbook is the best!! I bet James loved it!!

Comment by Just Greg on April 16, 2009 at 2:32am: my mom was raised in a catholic orphanage with her sisters 2 became nuns.When i was 6 years old my 2 best friends were Jewish and there parents always invited me to lunch and dinner they lived across the street so my mom would let me go.One day my mom asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up and i told her i wanted to be a Jew she asked why and i said cause they have realy good food,my mom never let me go back to eat,lol,not realy her and my friends mom laughed about it but i think my mom was jelous our catholic fish sticks were no compatition.

Comment by ZenithGuitar on April 15, 2009 at 6:26pm: Oh my. That handbook is classic, and the images are f-ing hilarious. I have an odd craving for chocolate now, although probably not for one shaped like a boil. I guess I'm just too much of a non-Jew to fully appreciate desserts modeled after a skin disease.

And now for a soothing picture of something cute:

Comment by Jonas on April 15, 2009 at 1:53pm: thanks terra !!, it was really entertaining ... and funny, ;)

Comment by Steve on April 15, 2009 at 9:31am: Pretty well all that old testament stuff was indoctrinated into us as Anglican kids back in primary school (something you wouldn't see in a US state school of course). I must admit it never much occurred to me as a 6 or 7 year old that it wasn't very fair on the Egyptian first-born sons, and it kind of got mixed up with gory stuff I was reading in comic books at the time. The discrepancy between a loving god and this rather blood-thirsty one didn't much occur to me until a fair few years later. But then the allies dropped a load of fire bombs on innocent German kids in Dresden, and they weren't responsible for the Nazis. So I guess it's a fairly human sort of story (it's an interesting way of tying yourself up in knots trying to square off this loving god thing with these stories, and people have really, really tried. Just as they managed to square the Christian and Islamic versions of god with little things like slavery).

I've since learned not to take too seriously the camp-side tales of a bunch of guys from the bronze age. But then somebody wrote it all down into a book (well, some scrolls) and since then a whole bunch of people have fallen for it. Hence we have animatronic dinosaurs and gumans sharing picnics in some unlikely tableau in a museum somewhere in the southern states.

But hey - we all need an excuse for a celebration and some decent food (well maybe not always so decent - don't the Icelanders eat cod or some such that has been rotting in the sand for some weeks in memory of their forebears nearly starving to death). Back in the UK we have Marmite, which I'm sure must have been produced to remember some dreadful national experience. I've no idea what it might be, but it must surely have been bad.

It seems appropriate to finish this with Robert Allen Zimmerman a.k.a Bob Dylan's view of what we can manage with "God on Our Side". A man who can reasonably claim to have experimented with a few versions of god...

Comment by Nate Petty on April 15, 2009 at 9:01am: Don't worry, Terra. I know : )

Although it does sound tempting to attend Seder at a friend's house and sing gibberish with a straight face.

Comment by Wendy Roberts on April 15, 2009 at 8:55am: Ezra made me read this - and I'm glad I did. I wish I had it in time for this year's Seder for my non-Jew guest, but I'll definitely bring it next year. Can you tell me where to get the 10 Plagues Chocolates?

Comment by Mary FC on April 15, 2009 at 8:51am: thanks for the handbook!! it's been a great reading :) i've learnt many things, and it remind some others i had already forgotten; when i went to the US, more than a year ago, my host family was jew. they taught me many things, and they took me to the synagogue a few times as well! i had never been to one before, so i enjoyed seeing the differences between christian and jewish services... it was an enriching experience. furthermore, they enjoyed the pamphlets about my village i gave them, because Hervás belongs to the network of jewish quarters of spain, and its architectural heritage attracts a lot of tourists :) (hmm... i have to learn how to put links!: http://www.shoretrips.com/common/search4.asp?rcode=EUR&lcode=MAD&tcode=038579 )