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[quote=Anonymous]I was invited to Passover Seder by a close friend. This was at her parent's home. I know this friend is an observant Jewish woman so I wanted to make sure I did every thing right. I made sure to follow the motions of every one around me so that I could keep up even though I didn't understand most of the speaking portions (in Hebrew). Anyway, when we got to the matzoh part, we were all eating it and her aunt said to me "have you ever eaten anything like this?" And I said "yes, we have something pretty similar" and another relative inquired about what it is. I said, "oh, Catholics have what we call Eucharist and it is similar in taste/texture". The aunt then said, "first of all, we do not have body and blood. That is a huge no no for Jews. This bread is the bread that our people ate in slavery and we eat it to recall the suffering that we had to endure. It is very very different!"

Well now I feel like a jerk. Obviously I wasn't trying to trivialize the holiday or the matzoh, I was honestly just answering a question and I feel like I totally offended this lady.  Fwiw I know a lot about Jewish traditions and certain rules as I used to cook/work in a kosher home. The rest of the family looked at her like they were confused as to why she was upset and I was too. Exactly how bad did I mess up?? [/quote]

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