Passover Cleaning Humor

In English it is Called Passover and in Hebrew they call it Pesach. The holiday is 8 days long and is a reminder to the Jewish people of their release from slavery in Egypt over a thousand years ago. One of the traditions of Passover is that observers are not allowed to eat leavened bread, so they have to eat Matzos instead.


It is also a tradition to rid themselves of all crumbs and even the smallest scraps of food that is not deemed ok for the holiday. To do this they clean every room of the house like it has never been cleaned before. Books get taken off the shelves and wiped down, refrigerators and large appliances get moved even the kids toys get cleaned. In most Jewish homes around the world the week before Passover there is a major spring cleaning taking place.

To help add some levity to a very busy time here is a joke about Passover called Impossible Timing, which is about this very subject.


Impossible Timing:
A financial genius, and observant Jew, named Samuel, accepted a job as the VP of a large Brokerage firm in Utah, a state known as a Mormon State.


When the company employees herd that a Jewish man was going to become the new VP, the members of the company's board of directors put lots of pressure on the president of the company. "We are religious people here," they said. "It can't be that a Jew will handle all our money."

The president did his best to calm his employees down, but he quickly saw this was going to be a losing battle, so he called Samuel into his office to explain to him the situation. After explaining it to him Samuel was given the option to convert and become a Mormon or to leave a great job that pays a 6 figure income.

Samuel decided that he would convert. So he went home and told his wife that from now on they would be going to Church services every Sunday.

After several months had passed, Samuel's wife was still troubling him about their conversion. "This is too difficult for me. I miss the Sabbath: lighting candles and blessing the wine. I miss the holidays. Money is not everything, Samuel dear."

Each time that his wife would bring the subject up it made him feel a little worse, until he was no longer able to take it and went to speak to the company President

"I can not continue to live like this" Samuel said. "I regret my decision to convert in the first place. Money is not everything. My wife and I have not been able to sleep in weeks. This is too heavy a price for us to pay. I was born a Jew and I want to die a Jew. And if you want me to quit, I will leave now without another word."

The president with a look of sympathy in his eye apologized to Samuel and said that he did not realize that this had been so difficult for him. He also told Samuel not to quit and that he could go back to being Jewish and can keep the job.


When Samuel arrived at home he had a giant smile on his face. His wife, who was watching television at the time, asked him why he was so happy, and he said to her "You won't believe it! It's a miracle. We are going back to being Jews, and I still retain my job."


The expression on his wife's face was clearly showing she was not happy as she started yelling "are you crazy?"


Samuel, who was surprised by his wife's reaction said to her "But this is what you have been complaining about for so long. Don’t you want to be a Jew again?"

His wife's face grew even darker after this as she replied ""Of course I want to. Of course I want to," she said. "But now? Only a week before Passover?"