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Passover soap. As far as I know, soap is basically a Base. Bread is not one of its active ingredients or even a trace component. Although I'm sure some mad fundy chemists attempted to incorporated bread derivatives into soap and scores of other products just so Jews would be forced to buy the new safe-for-Passover product. Both bread and base begin with 'B' but that as far as it goes. Do people actually worry that they got crumbs in their liquid soap bottle?My mind then wandered to the need for Kosher salt. Salt is a sodium and chloride combined, Na+Cl-. Perhaps there is a salt that has a Br+EaD- ion in one of its isotopic forms. Visions of my organic chemistry teacher shaking his head in profound disappointment set me straight.
Of course, there are many other absurdities but who has time to continue with all this cleaning and preparing to do?
Quick story:
My paternal grandmother used to move the whole family to a new apartment every year just before Passover because a new apartment had to be broom swept and painted. So instead of cleaning the house herself, she packed and unpacked an entire household and uprooted the kids. One day my dad came home after yeshiva and found the apartment empty. It seems no one told him about the move or where they were going to live next (purposely?)! He wandered around the street for a hour or so past dark until he ran into a friend of the family who was privy to his parents whereabouts. Isn't Passover supposed to be an all inclusive family holiday?
