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Pesach Cleaning

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In the celebration of Pesach cleaning season, here's a very short video. This little clip is not new, since it's been floating around the Internet for long enough for me to remember it from a previous year. But it's still worth a few chuckles.

Comments

Comment from Steve Killen at

For all the goyim who follow your diary, could you explain?  I'm not sure I get it.  I recognize that, as with any joke, the explaining can diminish the humor, but throw me a line?

Comment from Daniel Pearson at

The core of the joke isn't really specific to Judaism: you're led to think the mom's in prison when she's actually imprisoned by her task of scrubbing that tub. In fact, I doubt that the creators of the video had Pesach in mind at all; I suspect it was originally part of an advertisement for some bathroom cleaning product. But the joke easily lends itself to the Pesach season, when many a housewife becomes chained to Herculean cleaning efforts in the name of ridding the house of the slightest crumb of leavened grain products. The text appended to the video clip implies that a significant amount of this grueling travail is overzealousness with which one could dispense if more attention were paid to the fine details of the legal codes that demand the elimination of leaven. Does that explanation kill the joke sufficiently?

Comment from Steve Killen at

"Must scrub...leavening ring...out of tub!"

Because no leavening gets into the tub, but it gets scrubbed anyway?

Comment from Daniel Pearson at

Basically.