It is a certain kind of perfection. I can’t imagine anyone else doing a better job. (Love the kid feeding the dog some matzoh under the table early on.)

Then there’s the brilliant bit at the end.

In the seder a cup of wine is left out for Elijah. Some folks open the door to check for Elijah. The joke in the video is Elijah shows!

If anyone cares, I’m in no way Jewish. I would have to go back to Africa to establish a relationship with Jewish DNA.

But I love the Dayenu outlook. When I’m more of the person I would like to be, that’s where I am.

I’ve discovered that if you force a cache refresh by pressing CTL + F5, you can usually make the blog display the comments and the posts properly. Let me know if you see the most recent posts when you do that.

All you computer experts or semi-experts out there, do you have any advice for fixing things, based on this new information? I’m still getting professionals to help, but they’re taking longer than I’d like.

Have they ever made any sense? It seems to me that they have decided to chuck the whole concept of rational thought what ever they want today is “right.”

I once attended a Passover Seder led by a liberal Jewish friend. She explained how it worked. It seemed kind of long, but I was touched. In particular I remember the Dayenu song.

Dayenu, I was told, means, “It would have been enough…” and it occurs in the context of remembering all the specific gifts God gave the Jews, as in “It would have been enough if He had brought us out of Egypt.” “It would have been enough if He had split the Red Sea for us.” And so on.

So Dayenu is an expression of deep gratitude to God. If there is one thing which melts me, it is gratitude.

But now SJW Jews are turning it into something else. Steven Goldstein used Dayenu as “Enough! Shut up!” to Sean Spicer for his holocast gaffes at a recent press conference.

The Anne Frank Center MR also issued a “Lo Dayenu” recitation as in “It is not enough.”

God has brought us out of slavery but has not freed the other slaves of the world. So though we are thankful, lo dayenu. It is not enough.

Etc.

I notice other progressive Jews are doing some version of this. I find it sad to go from gratitude to “shut up” or “it’s never enough until progressive utopia is achieved.”

On a happier note, here’s a wacky version of the Dayenu song by the Maccabeats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZgDNPGZ9Sg

But, what of the appropriation of Anne Frank? Isn’t universalizing her story, removing her from the context of the Jewish experience, as aggressive an erasure as any act of “western colonization?”

Yes, there can be a slight delay between the time a person writes a comment and the time anyone can see it displayed. I can see the comments as soon as they are posted, if I’m logged in as the blogger. Some people seem to see them right away, as well. But a lot of people report that they don’t see them for between a few minutes and an hour or so.

The same is true of posts. There is a slight delay between the time I publish a post and the time it is displayed.

A bit of progress has been made, though. I’ve spoken to one of the many companies that specialize in troubleshooting WordPress problems, and they’re on the case. It may be a quick fix (I’m hoping so), or it may take a day or two.

In the meantime, keep checking your autofills, and realize that there can be a time lag before a post or a comment displays.