Really?!! “Making Plagues Cool Again”?

Yes. Someone is actually marketing an item with this tagline. They’re calling it Passover in a Box.

It seems that they hope to make a pack of nonsense fun for kids so that they’ll sit through the entirety of the religious clap trap that is Passover. Believe me, I understand why. I was raised Jewish and my parents did everything they could to make the Sedar (ritual dinner) fun.

Now Jewish parents have this box of games to help them do that.

Part of the “fun” is a game with a deck of cards that feature the 10 plagues.

Have we learned NOTHING from the spread of Covid?! PLAGUES ARE NEVER FUN.

They’re fast spreading and deadly. Most of their victims end up wishing for death long before it takes them. Their families suffer having to watch them die and then have to pay to watch them buried. How can anyone think that it’s appropriate to make light of such tragedy?

If I weren’t busy being so righteously outraged by the product, here’s why I’d find it laughable:

Passover itself is based on a lie. Archeologists and other scientists have proved that the Jews were NOT slaves under Pharoah Ramesses at the alleged time of the 10 plagues.

So why the big production of the special meal? Why open the door for Elija? Why leave him his own cup of wine? Why hide the Afikoman from the kids, only to have them hold it hostage for recompense, so…