Uptown Passover

March 27, 2015 12:46 PM

This is that age old
Passover tale that's retold
This is what we listen to
While eatin' through those matzah pieces

posted by internet fraud detective squad, station number 9 (20 comments total)

My roommate just told me to watch this yesterday, thank you for the reminder! I saw Six13 several years ago in concert and really enjoyed it. I think I need to send this to my dad too because otherwise he will send it to me first.

This video has also brought up a serious seder concern to which I do not have an answer: what if the youngest child in your household is A BABY
posted by capricorn at 1:09 PM on March 27, 2015

This is magnificent.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 1:11 PM on March 27, 2015

This is also great because it reminds me of how my awesome family sings Go Down Moses at our Seders. I do not think this is traditional?
posted by capricorn at 1:11 PM on March 27, 2015

I'm not Jewish and don't get the references (mostly) but dropped in to say holy hell that's well done. Killer singing.
posted by lazaruslong at 1:14 PM on March 27, 2015

Also cool shot looking through the rear view cam.
posted by lazaruslong at 1:16 PM on March 27, 2015

Very good. Also, since I am an old, I was worried this was going to have something to do with Billy Joel. Really glad it didn't.
posted by koeselitz at 1:18 PM on March 27, 2015 [2 favorites]

I would have bet money you couldn't fit the melody of Ma Nishtana into that song. Love how they got the order of the seder in there as well. Fun.

Capricorn: Next youngest goes (yep, even if it's said baby's parent)
posted by Mchelly at 1:21 PM on March 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

This video has also brought up a serious seder concern to which I do not have an answer: what if the youngest child in your household is A BABY

Mchelly has the halachic answer.

But when it was just the four of us, my wife and I sang to our babies together.
posted by zarq at 2:13 PM on March 27, 2015 [3 favorites]

Also, I am so sick to hell of that song and cannot convey Just. How. MUCH. I wanted to hate this. But wow, it was really well done and not as corny as I was expecting. So thanks for posting. :)
posted by zarq at 2:15 PM on March 27, 2015

Very good. Also, since I am an old, I was worried this was going to have something to do with Billy Joel. Really glad it didn't.

You were not alone in your fears.
posted by thomas j wise at 2:39 PM on March 27, 2015

Not sure there's a "the" halachic answer. In my husband's family, everybody says them except the oldest person there, in reverse age order. Sometimes that means 20 straight minutes of it. Ack.
posted by Mchelly at 2:52 PM on March 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

Aish also made a version of it. Passover Funk
posted by doublenelson at 2:53 PM on March 27, 2015 [5 favorites]

Aish also made a version of it. Passover Funk

OMG breakdancing! I like both of these, first one is a great history lesson, second one seems more of a nod to all the cool dancing that Bruno Mars and Co get up to.
posted by jessamyn at 3:39 PM on March 27, 2015

Okay, this is great.
posted by rmd1023 at 8:31 PM on March 27, 2015

Capricorn, my family also sings go down Moses... with a banjo! Can't really get more nerdy than that. Gotta love it.
posted by schmopera at 10:08 PM on March 27, 2015 [1 favorite]

Mchelly - figured it was something like that, but that's less interesting to me than the idea of everyone awkwardly trying to pretend a baby is singing questions to them.

schmopera, can I come to your seder please?
posted by capricorn at 7:24 AM on March 28, 2015 [1 favorite]

These are ridiculous and great and I'm going to forward them to everybody so we all have that song in our heads.
posted by LobsterMitten at 4:34 PM on March 28, 2015

I came across this poem the other day and really liked it: Maggid
posted by Joe in Australia at 1:42 AM on March 29, 2015 [4 favorites]

Joe, that's beautiful
posted by Mchelly at 4:50 AM on March 29, 2015

Derail, but too weak for its own FPP so hope it's okay: Ben and Jerry's Charoset ice cream
posted by Mchelly at 7:17 AM on March 29, 2015 [2 favorites]