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The Bread of Affliction

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31.03.2026

Some people start their seder saying “Ha”,

ha lahma anya, this is the bread of the affliction

our ancestors consumed in Egypt, a faith-inspired fiction

that’s comparable to identifying God as Allah.

Allah is not what Jews call God, although  the name may seem

to be as close as bread served at the seder which they ‘ve long depicted

Aramaically to bread they ate in Egypt when afflicted,

though, challenging the “ha,”” many precede it with a “k,”kelayma anya, likening the phoneme.

Mere likening of the past bread of affliction

to the bread served at the seder

in this verse that I’ve composed…

and not identifying them in any seder moment

fails to justify the bread of affliction

with which followers of Allah

the followers of  the Jewish God

barbarically with antisemitic


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