Now, with all your amazing innovations, the Seder will surely reach new heights

Last Week’s Poll

We asked you to help us come up with solutions to some of the challenges we tend to confront at the Pesach Seder. Actually, we thought we’d covered everything with our waterproof kittel, Karpas Katcher and Everything Haggadah. But now, with all your amazing innovations, the Seder will surely reach new heights.

SEDER SAND TIMERS

Get it? Like sand from the Midbar. None of us wants to spend 40 years at the Seder table listening to the explanation of everyone’s rebbi and morah on Vehi She’amda. You get your age in minutes to share everything you learned, but capped at 13, because 13 is adulthood — and also the maximum attention span in 2022.

GEBROCHTS/NON GEBROCHTS CUBICLE

A gebrochts cubicle for the litvish son-in-law in the heimish family, a non-gebrochts cubicle for the heimish son-in-law in the litvish family. Cubicles will be made out of clear, see- through, non sound proof material so said son-in law-can continue to participate freely while slurping on his kneidel/kneidel-less chicken soup. Sometimes division allows for the greatest unity.

AFIKOMEN ESCAPE ROOM

Tatty keeping the afikomen under his pillow just means that the kids keep interrupting his Seder (and their own) in order to keep trying to steal it. If it’s in a different room with puzzles, relevant to the Haggadah, that the kids need to solve, then not only does Tatty avoid the constant physical abuse (hockey goalie pads do not fit well over a kittel), but the tinokos will actually be asking questions to get hints for reaching the afikomen and “escaping” back to the Seder in time to earn their reward.

BEANBAG LEANER

For years we’ve struggled finding the right position for a smooth, comfortable left-leaning heseibah experience. We’ve arrived at the conclusion that dining room chairs as we know them just don’t do the trick. We think the answer has already been invented — the beanbag! You know, those big comfortable beanbags in the corner of your local library? Elegant it isn’t but comfortable it is. Assuming of course, that the beans aren’t kitniyos.

(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 906)