Appor had been saving his income for months. now he was in the jewelery shop choosing the ear-jewelery for his mom! so many shiny shapes to choose from! and with gleaming gems of different colors like the variety of wild-flowers! finally he chose the banana-shaped gold earrings.
he held the pair in his hand and felt awe! it seemed so beautiful! this would be a perfect-present for passover!
as he walked home he saw Cherran, the girl he often studied with. appor showed the gift to her and said, "they are gorgeous!" cherran scorned the gift and said "I hope that is not for me. I hate the shape of bananas!" appor explained that the shape was pleasing to the eye and that it was a passover gift for his mother.
they walked home and discussed the plans for the passover play that they would act that evening. cherran told him about passover pete [see footnote] and he agred that it was a brilliant idea to inject the ancient passover with something like a handle to relate to.
appor insisted that passover was only to celebrate the end of the cold dark winter of short days and chilling cold winds. Cherran agreed and strengthened his words by saying it was always in the calendar near march 21 or later when the cold days had passed. appor added that the short days ended march 16 and from then the length of the day was longer than the length of night.
as they approached the house Dattor, his older sister, was leaving to go to the house of dad, and she scolded appor, "why do you always hang out with that ugly stubborn brat!" appor smiled at cherran and said "ignore her that just means she is jealous" cherran looked worried "she does not sound jealous" appor explained, "when a girl calls you ugly it means they feel like you are more beautiful and on this dattor is correct!"
appor handed the gold bananas to his mother and she shrieked in horror!
cherran and appor stared in shock and cherran recovered first "i did not think they were THAT bad"
mom hurried into the kitchen mumbling strange sounds, "acerolas! Gojus! aronius! guavus!" and threw the gold earings into the soup pot!
appor lost his temper "what did you do that for!" he was appalled and insulted.
mom explained, "those earings were cursed and the only way to clean them is to say the magic words and immediately cook the gold in the holy soup of the holiday."
"I asssure you, mom continued, " that once the curse is off i will wear your generous present." now, cherran hurried home to be with her family for the passover dinner.
that evening at precisely 6 pm appor and his mother met in the well-lit kitchen and said "happy passover" to each other. mom sighed and said "if only our family had worked out" hinting at the absence of dad, who had divorced her three years before in the summer. then appor served the ground-lamb-burgers and mom served the holy passover soup. mother and son ate lamb and salad and the holy soup.
at 7 pm cherran returned wearing her drama-costume, with the rest of the classmates to do the play of the story of the exodus for the broken family. mom put on the banana gold earings and she was so proud of her son who acted the part of "Amram." the play acted out how amram hid his newborn son moses and then cherran, actingthe role of jocebed carried baby moses to the river etc. and all had a great time.
i wish all my readers happy holidays!
"Stewart proposed "Passover Pete, the guitar-playing, pizza-eating lion."
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