inquiring reporter Elizabeth Collings

10 - Sunday, April 8, 1990 - North Shore News

WHILE MOST people are gearing up for the sunny spr- ingtime weather, die-hard hockey fans are nestling into their couches to sit back and watch the Stanley Cup playoffs. Now that the regular season has come to a close, the next two months of television will be dedicated to the best of seven rounds of hockey. Sportscasters and

Who will win the Stanle y Cup: ?

Neil Hails

West Vancouver

The Flames could go all the way or they could go 90 per cent and be bumped out in the last round,

Christopher Smith Edmonton

I'd like Boston (Bruins) to win. They finished first overall season strongest team overall. It

in an 80-game so they’re the

would also help NHL ex-

pansion in the U.S.

Andrew Welsh

Wesi Vancouver

I think Boston is going to win. They’ve been doing pretty good the last few games. They seem like a good team to me. ty.

fans are putting their reputations on the line with Stanley Cup champ predictions. Will the defending champion Calgary Flames do a repeat performance and win the Stanley Cup? Or will an underdog come from behind? Will Wayne Gretzky overcome his back injury?

Reid Madiuk West Vancouver

I think Calgary is going to win. I don’t want them = in to, but I think they will because they play so dir-

Joe Weiler

West Vancouver

Calgary will beat Boston the Stanley Cup. Calgary is the defending champion and they’ve got the most talent, the deepest talent and the biggest, toughest team.

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

NINE-YEAR-QLD Amielle Lake lights ceremonial candles to mark the

beginning of Passover.

This week's religicus events

Today: Palm Sunday, celebrated by Christians as the day on which Jesus was welcomed in triumph in- to Jerusalem by crowds of wor- shippers waving palm branches. Monday:

* The Christian Holy Week preceding Easter, sometimes marked by fasting, begins.

® The Jewish festival of Passover (see article) begins at sundown. Tuesday: Passover continues. Thursday: Maundy Thursday, on which Jesus washed the feet of his disciples and ate with them the

Last Supper before his death. Friday:

* Good Friday, on which Jesus was crucified.

* The Buddhist New Year accord- ing to the Saka calendar.

© The Hindu festival of Vaisakhi, celebrating the harvest.

* Baisakhi Day. Sikhs celebrate the creation of the ‘*Brotherhood of the Pure’ by Guru Gobind Singh on this day in 1699,

Sunday: Easier Sunday, on which

Jesus’ tomb was found empty after

he had risen from the dead.

Jews relive flight from Egypt during Passover

FOR NON-JEWS, the celebration of Passover can be rather mysterious. Special cooking uten- sils must be used, all leavened foods, such as bread, are given away, and doors are left open. Why?

By PEGGY TRENDELL* News Reporter

There are symbolic reasons for all the Passover traditions, most of which commemorate the exodus cf the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt about 3,000 years ago.

‘*Parents have an obligation to retell the story of Exodus,’’ ex- plained Rabbi Imre Balla of the North Shore congregation Har-el. “We don’t just tell the story, we want to re-live the story.”’

To this end, only unleaved bread (‘‘matzah’’) is eaten during Passover, which starts this year on the evening of April 9 and con- tinues for seven days thereafter.

The untleavened bread is reminiscent of the flight of the Jews from Egypt, who were in such a hurry to leave that they had no time to leaven the bread for their journey. Jews clean their homes, dishes and appliances

thoroughly to rid them of any traces of ‘“‘chometz’’ — unleaven- ed food.

And the word Passover, or, in the Hebrew, ‘‘pesach,’’ refers to the Angel of Death ‘‘passing over’’ the Hebrew homes when the first- born sons of all the Egyptian households were being slain — the Jast of the 10 plagues God inflicted upon Egypt just before the Jews escaped its domination.

The story of Passover is told at the celebratury meal, the Seder (say-der), which is held on the first two nights of the festival. At that time, children sing songs asking questions about the Passover, the story is read from the Haggadah, a book containing historical infor- mation about the holiday and its traditions, and a symbolic meal is eaten.

The meal is arranged on the special Seder plate, and contains items such as a lamb shank bone, a reminder of the sacrificial lamb that the Hebrews ate on the eve of their exodus, bitter herbs — ‘‘it reminds us of the bitter life of the slaves,’ says Rabbi Balla — haroseth, a mixture of nuts, apples and wine reminiscent of the mate- rial the Hebrews used to make bricks while in slavery, and

parsley, or any green, to symbolize the coming of spring and the first harvest.

In addition to celebrating the historical aspect of Passover, Rabbi Balla says Jews celebrate “Passover in our time’? and ‘Passover for the future.’’

*“*Any holiday should appeal to us, the modern pecple,”’ he notes.

This year at Passover, Jewish congregations will be thinking about the exodus of Jews from Eastern Bloc countries, and pon- dering the meaning and potential uses of freedom in current-day society.

And they will express their hope for a better and a more peaceful world in the future.

An extra glass of wine is left filled, and the doors are left open, in a gesture of welcome to the Old Testament prophet Elijah, who was ordained by God to foretell the coming of the Messiah.

“The Messiah will bring peace and no more bloodshed,’’ says the Rabbi.

The congregation Har-et will be holding a communal Seder on Tuesday, April 10, at the syna- gogue at 1735 Inglewood, West Vancouver. For more information, call 922-9133.

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