One week before Purim, I was already taking about what it is to happen next. Two days after, I visited some of my heimishe friends and they were already done 25% of the cleaning. More than one week after Purim, I am here writing a post about Pesach cleaning, but don't have a plan to cope with the challenge.
To be very honest, I am not as spontaneous as I want to look like. Ten days ago when I was trying to find something fast to cook, I mapped the dangerous corners of the kitchen where most likely chometz is comfortably hiding. I can see often myself starting a huge cleaning process, when everyone in the house is doing its job properly, without any protests against the assigned task. Even if some are faster, they offer to do my part.
The tragi-comic part of the story is that we don't even know exactly where we will spend Pesach, and I am fighting the terrible feeling that I will need to take care of cleaning another house besides mine, in case that we want to backpack and go in another sunnier place.
What I know for sure is that I want to enjoy the mitzva of Pesach cleaning. Most probably will listen to some shiurim or hazzanut when cleaning. I will find the most creative recipes for the time of the matzot and will try to learn as much as possible about the holiday. As I am the kind of person that is doing the best job when coping with stress, the proper cleaning will be done 10 days before Pesach, regardless of where we will decide to spend the 2 seder.
I don't to hear anyone complaining about how hard is to eat matzot and we will find the best ways to embelish the mitzvot with new and nice tablecloth, songs and new yidden that we plan to meet. As usual, we have special savings that will help us, iy''H, to have the best on our table, both spiritually and physically.
We all have been on Sinai so we better open our doors and hearts for being really free. When your heart is happy with the mitzvot, you are free and happy, even when all you have is a small piece of matza.
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