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Passover starts tonight, when Jews observe the dramatic end to their slavery in Egypt and the beginning of a long trek toward the Promised Land.
Tradition is that Jews of every generation must imagine they personally had to flee Pharaoh, but how do you make that ancient story "real" for today's youth?
Well...someone has put the whole story on a social networking site. In what may be the most entertaining and creative modern retelling of the Passover story, here is "The Haggadah" as told on Facebook.
Follow the thread as Joseph comes to Egypt and "friends" Pharaoh. Then God writes
"25 Things You Don't Know About Me",including
"I had another universe once. It was so much better than this one."Bernie Madoff weighs on on the Pyramids ("good scheme"), rabbis debate history, God tells Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that "the old version was much better", and Pharaoh uses the "Yes we Conserve" pledge to "use dryer less" ("This is a no brainer, as I live in the desert").
In between all of this, plagues are sent, the Israelites flee and make it across the Red Sea, while CEO Zuckerberg ponders how Facebook can make money.
By the way, the author promises next year to Twitter the Passover story. How do you tell the saga in only 140 characters? "Bush burns, says go bk to Egypt. Tell pharaoh "let my people go". He won't. Lotsa plagues. He says ok. Grab n Go. He folos. Part sea. Free."
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