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Scallion whipper snappers

This year at the Passover seder we used some alternative haggadas to the Maxwell House items that we were used to. The Maxwell House ones have the long dissertation about the number of expanding plagues where Rabbi Akiba adds extra plagues for each finger on his hand and they grow exponentially. These new Haggadas have breaks where they expect people to do things like discuss how slavery or discrimination has affected our lives. In general we skipped these. The major highlight of this new haggadah was that the sephardic jews have the option to whip each other with scallions at one point during the Seder. Since we didn't have a supply of scallions we missed out on this highly interesting and bizarre tradition.

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