A grocery store full of unusual items | A Passover-time tour 

Amen, amen. Hard times.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn are you still jewish? which path have you taken?

love it

😂are we allowed to say that it would probably have been better?

Sefardic matzah is more like soft tortillas

SO CUTE!

Me too I can’t remember all the moves with the string and I am getting frustrated. Please make video with all the different things they can make with the string that would be fun.

Yup it was popular when I was a kid so its fun to see kids still doing it, I like the fact they aren't glued to phones and go outside to play instead because they aren't exposed to a lot of technology.

@@michelleg7 I agree

Here is Christ's question Mathew 15: 3: "But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" Malachi 2: 1-4: "And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts." A women say "the Husband has no name". Another ones say "the Husband has many names". Some of women "love the Husband in all his manifestations" like: neighbour, taxi driver, coworker... But, all of those prostitutes say "the Husband is the only". Then they even talk about "trinity of the Husband" and they are not against "the Son taking the Husband's place". In the same way religious prostitutes try to hide their disgusting fornication with different gods. Furthermore, a correct pronunciation of the Name is unknown now. Here is the God's word spoken through Moses, Deuteronomy 11: 16-17: "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you." So, the God says there are other gods, but blind leaders of blind lead people into trap. "Jesus" means "Jehovah is salvation". This is the name of Christ real christians are hated for. "HalleluJah" means "Praze Jah" (Jehovah). Psalm 83: 18: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why liers feel so good while righteous people are persecuted. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our beloved ones again! :-)

Amen ❤️💔💔❤️‍🩹 From your mouth to god’s ears.

Joe, always delighted to see your comment. Wishing you a wonderful chag and to your aunt!

Yeah, no doubt it happens. People predisposed to OCD can really lean into it in an "acceptable" way and it can get so out of hand. We all in/from this world know some instances.

Ocd can be expressed in any area of life by those who suffer from it. Including religion. Spending endless hours repeating the words of the prayers, excessive (ritual) hand washing etc. Most ppl out there don't have this mental illness though. Yet they'll have to clean their property thoroughly for pesach whether they like it or not.

Lovely Zelde, a ziessen Pesach to you!

I hope you like it!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklynI love all your videos!

Was the gefilte fish good?

My mom would eat that in the store pregnant out of the jar. Me and my 5 sisters wouldn’t try it. Now at 63 fish in a jar no way!

Frieda, this was very interesting as are all your videos. You talk about Gluten Free products but are there any people in the community who would follow a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle? Is eating meat/fish required?

@@carolalm0823 There are some vegetarians and vegans but I think not many. We have a strong tradition of eating meats on special occasions (it used to be very hard to come by and very rare, so it was a very important part of festivities) and it might be considered a way of honoring, let's say, shabbes, to eat fish and other animals. But still, there are SOME vegetarians, although I think it's rare. I used to be a vegetarian and I was shopping once and a Hasidic man suggested a meat product to me. I told him I don't eat meat and he got quite upset, saying that Hitler was a vegetarian but his empathy to animals meant nothing because of how he treated humans. That stayed with me.

@@lindatohara6438 Wait, was the moment pregnant or your mother? She sounds like a character!

Oh Andrea you’ve been on this ride for almost as long as it’s been… a ride! Last year was an experience and I enjoyed reminiscing about it. I love quirky little human exchanges; it so fills the world with the color of personalities.

Amen, praying for peace and the end to so much division and suffering.

Always a good day when I learn from you!

That's one explanation. Kitniyot (legumes, rice ) are not eaten because of the visual resemblance of rice flour, cornstarch and others to wheat flour and the fear of confusing them. Among the Sefardim there are different customs concerning what they do or do not eat on Passover, some eat rice, others do not. Some eat fresh legumes but not dried legumes. Passover can be summed up as a time when everyone is looking to be more stringent about being careful not to eat chometz, each community according to their respective minhagim (religious customs) and traditions handed down thru the generations. Hope you had a kosher and happy Pesach.

Thank you Frieda! I look forward to your videos.

Ooooh, yes! With hard boiled mashed eggs -- amazing!

Thank you!

Thank you so much - your comment is so lovely. Wishing you a wonderful weekend :)

Thank you butterfly!

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Thank you!❤️ The shopkeeper was lovely.

Thank you so much PoppyOak!

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@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn loved it- Very informative. We had a bit of a shocker of a day at work today, so this very much brightened it. ❤️ Hope you’re having a good Thursday.

@@RachG Oh no, I hope everything is okay. I made deep fried stuff today and my face is shiny. Always a good day when that happens!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn that sounds like a lovely day. 🤣 What have you been deep frying?

@@RachG everything in the kitchen! It started with potatoes, which is the correct way to start!

Thank you!

Chag sameach! They are called imgavashene vegetables and always so large. Do you find that they taste much sweeter? That’s my experience.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn yes, the fruits and vegetables are huge and delicious. This year, however, the horseradish my husband bought and grated, didn’t have the same bite as usual. It was full of dirt/earth. Must’ve been an aberration. 😉

Such a great question. I would assume that with the invention of things like silver foil, people have become more stringent and added on precautions that weren’t there before. I know for a fact that you could prepare counters for Passover by Kashering, which was a process involving boiling water and a brick (I’ve also seen the blow torch process, a new import I think). I do think on the whole the advent of new technologies has brought new degrees of extreme precaution. Would love to hear from anyone who can further answer this question.

They used a piece of wood or blech for counters table clothes sheets(not exactly water proof) . And a crate or metal milk crate type basket.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn you answered the question correctly. No need to hear more. New inventions have improved overall quality of life including religious life. It's much easier and cheaper today to maintain high religious standards than it has ever been. And the standards are much higher too these days. It's so easy to be a frum jew these days that you wonder why not everyone is.

Hadn’t made the connection between the two Yumas!

Been a while since I've seen a comment from you! Hope all is well with you :)

@FriedaVizelBrooklyn we had a major holiday on Thursday and my daughter got engaged. We had a big potluck and it was a wonderful day. Ascension Day is a beautiful day that is joyful, but also sad because it was the end of the story with our leader who we love and he left us here on the Earth. He told us if we loved one another and keep the commandments, we'll be sustained by the Spirit of the Lord until the end. It is a message of great hope, in particular in these frightening times. My eldest announced her engagement at a potluck we had. I had to extract a prenuptial for my daughter because the one she will wed is from a more strict group. She's 20 and I don't want her to quit school unless she wants to, just because the boy is Amish. But promises were made and I think it will be alright. Good news is, she's staying close by and will live a similar life. Our church is small and she's liked this boy for years, so it is good. If she married our church, she would probably have to go to Canada. Her fiance is a kind young amish man, he is nice to animals and treats his mother with great care and respect. He also respects me, and more importantly my daughter.

Amen, thank you, sending good wishes back!

Thank you!! Ciao!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn ciao!

Thanks so much! Happy everyone is bearing with me after we lost the audio on the segment and we made do with shoddy backup audio.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn never would have guessed that. I really enjoyed the content 🌸

Thanks so much! Some days it’s nice to hear a kind word about stuff like my hair.

Ha ha, nothing like eating with your eyes through the screen. Lots of cakes in that supermarket; wish I'd eaten some for the video.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn yes you eating over cakes would have been the icing on the cake lol

I'm floored by how many Passover products there now are. There used to be lady fingers and yogurts, and the majority of the store was closed off. Now you can buy so many things.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Really? Well I'm glad then that the availability, the choices are greater than before.

Before we left the proprietor asked me if I wanted anything and I asked for the rainbow cake.... So good even for passover, especially with coffee. Have a great weekend!

Ha ha you always crack me up. I’m laughing that you volunteered to buy it before I offered you up to the world to demonstrate the making of! I’m glad you figured out what I was saying about the ten crumbs because it wasn’t very clear. Hiding them all in the same place is a very wise hack. You shouldn’t post it here; you should charge for your advice, make bank! By the way I’m running the Brooklyn Half Marathon together and drawing inspiration from your own sporadic running to tell myself I can do this!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn well, fortunately you already have a demonstration 😉😂 FRIEDA! That’s amazing. You’re running it tomorrow? Well today now, I guess?! You can totally do it! I completely believe in you! I’ll be cheering you on 📣 and feeling super proud from afar. I hope you can hear me?! Ha ha. Let me know how you get on!! I’m totally drawing running inspiration from you now! I REALLY need to get back to running properly. I used to love it and run all of the time!! Aaaanyway, wishing you all the very best! Have fun!! 🤩🏃🏼‍♀️🥇🌟

Never heard of them with cottage cheese! I'm not a fan of any of the pesach cookies or cakes but the lady fingers deserved to be part of this story. We just didn't get to it!

Growing up I’d eat matzah or banana with cottage cheese

אמן! חג כשר ושמח!

Thank you, hope you have a great weekend :)

Thank you! It was filmed late late at night on the eve of Passover, so it was really an intense environment!

Thank you so much always!

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Happy Passover ❤️

Thank you! Have a wonderful weekend. :)

Thank you, have a great week!!

I did KNOW that chickens don’t have arms… lol! I was literally translating its Hebrew name. Have a great week!!

Thank you so much my friend. Had a major technical issue with the audio here so happy people aren’t chewing me out over it. I almost chucked out the whole segment.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn I’ve learnt people are always gonna judge. I have to work during Shabbat. New job, I told the owner after I got hired on. I put on my kippah after. Asked for Shabbat off. She said I didn’t know you was a Jew. I’m like well ok I’ll work it. I took my kippah off before the interview, but noticed after I had one of the tassels from my tzitzit 😂. It’s been 5 weeks. I’m starting to feel the tole. I pay the rabbi all the money I make during working on Shabbat. I am thinking, when will something give. I am Appalachian Jew, not Hasidic, but mostly the same rules and regulations. I feel like a hypocrite. A guy today said Sorry I keep Shabbat. I replied, I either Work or starve. So I work. It’s taking a tole on me. Sorry for the rant. I do love your videos. Keep it up, It’s people like you, who give us the motivation to keep trying to be the best version of ourselves.

Thank you!

Thanks for watching!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn 🩵

Happy passover!

Thank you! Enjoy the weekend :)

Thank you so much for coming along for the ride :)

Your channel is awesome!!! 💜

You and I are the same! I also have a thing for ethnic/local grocery stores. I’ll see a Russian grocery store and spend forever exploring it… same for a Chinese, foreign country, etc. I think the little differences in cultural foods speak a lot to unique cultural quirks but in the end there’s so much that’s actually similar.

We get it out of our system preparing for passover😂

Awwww, that's the sweetest, truly.

This was my first time there - lots of friendly people! And one woman came up to me to give me notes on my video about Snickers vs Smirk, telling me that she disagreed with my take - which was funny. Very heimish environment.

Thank you Debbie :)

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Thank you Freida thanking me😘

That’s what I believe. Sharing and learning about each other helps us connect. At a time of so much division, I think connecting is so important. WIshing you a wonderful Pesach.

Thank you! Happy Passover/have a great week :)

Thank you! Looking at food is fun 🤤

Lovely. It's my prayer to be next year in Jerusalem. Perhaps. Hopefully. It's very special to be on the high holidays in Israel.

So u would like to be in Yerusholayim for Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur/Succos or Pesach? In Tishrei flats are sky high expensive. For Pesach I could help you find a flat.​@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn

☺️ thank you, happy Passover time.

Which video are you talking about, this one? By the way, English is great!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn Yes, this one.Orthodox shop ,,had to watch some on 2X . At least you know what you are talking about . Some orthodox things are new to me.

I saw a kosher for Passover deli this week with every imaginable ready to eat kosher for Passover food. The stuff they sell in Brooklyn boggles my mind!

It was nice. Always nice when it's over and we're back to pastries in the bakeries!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn I can imagine. I wish I could try some of their pastries.

I am not sure that vessels would work though... Would it? I mean, forks aren't exactly vessels?

Utensils.

Great point! I was looking at all the ingredients they listed that might be an issue, lots of fancy product names.

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn I wrote about this in one of my comments on this video.

Anything with sugar and it’s totally loveable.

Never in my life had fresh Gefilte fish! I’m intrigued.

My grandmother made ours and when I got older I helped. After she died my mother would by it in large cans. She didn't like to cook.

You probably wouldn't know what the issues are just by looking at the ingredients. There are various lists online and of course there is the blumenkrantz book shown in the video. He follows the strictest standards. Your local orthodox rabbi might be more lenient when it comes to products that in their current form are no longer edible to a dog. The more stringent opinion maintains that if after reversing the process the original chometz ingredient could become edible again it's forbidden to have any pleasure from even in it's current inedible state.

You’re lucky; during the pandemic I went months without makeup and my skin thanked me for it.

Me and this fella who was there had a discussion about this. Apparently some people use part of the lamb?

Since the zeroa is to commemorate the korban pesach we go out of our way to make it clear it's not the actual one. That's why we put a bone and not meat. Others - like chabad - will use a chicken neck AND remove most of the meat for that reason.

You were an A+ student. There's eggs involved in the Passover sedar as well as horseradish. Horseradish is incredibly bitter. I ate it this year and woah it's an intense experience!

@@FriedaVizelBrooklyn lol but that’s not even the bitter herbs that are supposed to be included on the meal is it?

Some pple use celery for "karpas" part of the seder. It's dipped in saltwater and eaten to remember the tears of Jewish slaves in Egypt.

@@tourots Thank you, I did remember celery!

Ha ha, I hear you; Israel always sounds scarier from afar.

I think it would be interesting to do a visit to a silver store because there are some pretty striking silver pieces in the hasidic silver shops.

Hi Judy!! I actually showed how potato flour is made in this video (I'll paste the link). It's essentially dried out the starch of the potatoes. It ends up very powdery and looks flour like, like a blue-ish white flour. You are not allowed to use regular flour except for matzos. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-46y57qwJWaQ.htmlsi=zgUuFjteG_hdD4sk

Thanks for telling me about this - I’m going to try to find the article.

Thank you! Chag sameach!

Thanks for the laugh!! Glad your husband hasn’t taken up such life threatening activities as buy a box matzoh for eighty bucks. It’s insanely expensive but also tastes very differently from the box version. Feels like everything is so expensive now, even the machine matzah.

It's not kosher for Passover! I've not heard of anyone eating couscous on Passover, have you? (Not challenging, just curious if you've heard differently)

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