* Translated by Janine Muller Sherr
Every year, in the midst of Pesach cleaning, I’m asked to repeat the following idea (even this year, with all that is happening around us): Dr. Miri Kahane recommends adopting a different approach to Pesach cleaning:
“I would like to share a thought that I keep reminding myself (as I prepare for Pesach). The reason that we need to do so much cleaning is because we’ve been blessed with an abundance of everything — I’m not speaking about me personally, but all of us. Most of us are living in our own home with a separate bedroom for parents, a shower, and a bathroom. Our homes are filed with furniture, clothes, dishes, and food. Our children are so well fed that they leave whole packages of snacks in their drawers and sandwiches in their school bags which they didn’t feel like eating. Our current reality is so different than that of our ancestors who needed to ask halachic questions about the one communal oven shared by several families or washing their one item of clothing for Shabbat.
Despite the difficulties and challenges we face today, I’m sure that each one of us has at least one great-grandparent who would be ecstatic to see the prosperity of their great grandchildren. So, every now and then, I stop myself from thinking about all the cleaning and cooking that still needs to get done in order to appreciate how much we have".
You’re welcome to share this idea with others as we prepare for Pesach.
