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by Sara Eisemann OTTROONBBOEET “mi’ikar hadin.”
Mehadrin-level Purim shtik involves
I’m considering starting a revolu- clown and the wobbly, puffy sticker on
tion. So far, the only insurgent is the back, sold at your local variety store some play on the drinking theme. (I
me. But this could be big. or PTA fundraiser), this year we could
I’ve been moving from “doing” to identify ourselves as the distributors of don’t know, say, “Shnapp til you drop”
“being.” The new me is about the this adorable shalach manos with a delivered in little “NordstRUM” bags
moment. The new me is done with newspaper entitled The Local Buzz. with little bottles of “bourbon”erry?)
running and doing and is ready to And then, to just take the adorability
embrace just being. factor to a whole other level, we could Mehadrin min hamehadrin is tying the
The new me doesn’t have a theme all be dressed in black and yellow with drinking theme to some current event.
for shalach manos this year and is headbands that have antennae that
wondering if she can make a philoso- bob back and forth. Oh, and we could Our all-time winner occurred seven
phy out of it. give out honey cakes with a little note
that says, “We know it’s Purim/ But years ago at the last Siyum HaShas, as
To be or not to be? That will be this venahapoch hu/ So we’d like to wish/ we invited our friends to join us and
year’s question. Could I really do it? A shana tova to you!”
Could I just put some elegant food- Yidden around the world for the time-
stuffs in a bag (we’ll make it organza to Uh, I guess it won’t be that easy to
ease the transition), take it to some scale back and just “be” this year. You honored Purim tradition of “Siyum
neighbors, and spend the rest of the see, in our house, we do Purim. In fact, HaShnapps.”
day driving my kids around to their for the last few years, I have been advo-
friends so they can exchange cello- cating a “mihoDU ve’ad (ko)Kush” sha- That’s a hard one to beet – I mean
phane bags filled with Faygo soda and lach manos. How great would that be? beat.
Laffy Taffy for cellophane bags filled We’d do a small bottle of Wild Turkey
with Pepsi and Laffy Taffy? (Hodu) and a mini kokosh cake. (I’ve So you can see how crazy all this
already researched the Reisman cake
Could I really just bee in the options. I mean, yeah, I do Purim, but I “doing” can get. Oh my gosh, can you
moment? don’t do fresh kokosh for 30.) My fami-
ly has consistently nixed this idea, but imagine how cute that would be to do
Oh no! Here it comes – the insup- that is neither here nor there. The
pressible, irrepressible drive to make point is that we take Purim, and partic- a whole “doing” theme – Mountain
corny puns when this time of year rolls ularly shalach manos, pretty seriously
around. The internal buzz (ahh! There around here. Dew, etc. Ahh! (There I go again. The
I go again!) in my brain that starts
around Shevat and culminates on We’ve set some high standards for woman must be stopped!!) Forgive me
Purim, when every pun is subject to ourselves over the years, and taking a
mutilation of the cruelest kind. step back will be rough. There’s actual- as I digress. I almost can’t help myself.
ly a formula (never before revealed but
We could just “BEE”? Get it? “Bee,” here about to be shared) to our mad- It would be so nice to just “be” this year.
like the insect. Instead of just affixing ness. First and foremost, the goal is
the usual “Simchas Purim” business- always a grin, not a groan. That’s non- To “be” or to “bee”? That is the ques-
card-size tag (you know the one I’m negotiable, every year. We’ll call that
talking about – with the inevitable tion. Not the usual question but today’s
question.
Stay tuned for the answer.◆
66 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
Mehadrin-level Purim shtik involves
I’m considering starting a revolu- clown and the wobbly, puffy sticker on
tion. So far, the only insurgent is the back, sold at your local variety store some play on the drinking theme. (I
me. But this could be big. or PTA fundraiser), this year we could
I’ve been moving from “doing” to identify ourselves as the distributors of don’t know, say, “Shnapp til you drop”
“being.” The new me is about the this adorable shalach manos with a delivered in little “NordstRUM” bags
moment. The new me is done with newspaper entitled The Local Buzz. with little bottles of “bourbon”erry?)
running and doing and is ready to And then, to just take the adorability
embrace just being. factor to a whole other level, we could Mehadrin min hamehadrin is tying the
The new me doesn’t have a theme all be dressed in black and yellow with drinking theme to some current event.
for shalach manos this year and is headbands that have antennae that
wondering if she can make a philoso- bob back and forth. Oh, and we could Our all-time winner occurred seven
phy out of it. give out honey cakes with a little note
that says, “We know it’s Purim/ But years ago at the last Siyum HaShas, as
To be or not to be? That will be this venahapoch hu/ So we’d like to wish/ we invited our friends to join us and
year’s question. Could I really do it? A shana tova to you!”
Could I just put some elegant food- Yidden around the world for the time-
stuffs in a bag (we’ll make it organza to Uh, I guess it won’t be that easy to
ease the transition), take it to some scale back and just “be” this year. You honored Purim tradition of “Siyum
neighbors, and spend the rest of the see, in our house, we do Purim. In fact, HaShnapps.”
day driving my kids around to their for the last few years, I have been advo-
friends so they can exchange cello- cating a “mihoDU ve’ad (ko)Kush” sha- That’s a hard one to beet – I mean
phane bags filled with Faygo soda and lach manos. How great would that be? beat.
Laffy Taffy for cellophane bags filled We’d do a small bottle of Wild Turkey
with Pepsi and Laffy Taffy? (Hodu) and a mini kokosh cake. (I’ve So you can see how crazy all this
already researched the Reisman cake
Could I really just bee in the options. I mean, yeah, I do Purim, but I “doing” can get. Oh my gosh, can you
moment? don’t do fresh kokosh for 30.) My fami-
ly has consistently nixed this idea, but imagine how cute that would be to do
Oh no! Here it comes – the insup- that is neither here nor there. The
pressible, irrepressible drive to make point is that we take Purim, and partic- a whole “doing” theme – Mountain
corny puns when this time of year rolls ularly shalach manos, pretty seriously
around. The internal buzz (ahh! There around here. Dew, etc. Ahh! (There I go again. The
I go again!) in my brain that starts
around Shevat and culminates on We’ve set some high standards for woman must be stopped!!) Forgive me
Purim, when every pun is subject to ourselves over the years, and taking a
mutilation of the cruelest kind. step back will be rough. There’s actual- as I digress. I almost can’t help myself.
ly a formula (never before revealed but
We could just “BEE”? Get it? “Bee,” here about to be shared) to our mad- It would be so nice to just “be” this year.
like the insect. Instead of just affixing ness. First and foremost, the goal is
the usual “Simchas Purim” business- always a grin, not a groan. That’s non- To “be” or to “bee”? That is the ques-
card-size tag (you know the one I’m negotiable, every year. We’ll call that
talking about – with the inevitable tion. Not the usual question but today’s
question.
Stay tuned for the answer.◆
66 u www.wherewhatwhen.com u
