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Works from PRX, wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Chhospad. Real life lived better, where each week we apply Jewish tradition and a little bit of beetroot horseradish to talk about something that is live in our lives. I'm Rabbi Shira Stutman. And I'm Hannah Rosen. And guess what? It's Passover coming. Yay.

Yay. I am assuming, Shira, that you celebrate Passover in Washington, D.C. because your entire

family is here. You are assuming incorrectly because the Stutmans live in Washington, D.C., but we are not of Washington, D.C.

We are Philadelphians at heart.

And so for the first Seder, we actually go to Philadelphia, and we get to have our Seder

at the National Museum of American Jewish History, the Whiteman Museum.

And it is tremendous fun for, I don't know, 70 of my closest

relatives or so to get together and celebrate Passover. Second night, we are in D.C. Are you serious?

You have 70. These are all people who are related to you? Well, sure. And you know, my grandmother's family,

the Goldberg family, my grandmother,

Best Goldberg, was one of 12 children. And, you know, those children had children. And thanks to the hard work of some of my cousins, we still get together twice a year, once for a family reunion

and once for the Seder. And in fact,

our numbers are quite diminished at this point. Like 70, we used to, we used to be in the triple digits

for this thing. But now, you know, people have moved away. And by third generation, the ties are a

little bit more tenuous. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a pretty big Sater. You know, if I feel like this is a key to your personality that I have not had before,

it's like children who come from these abundant families, they're just loved in a certain way,

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