My mom yells at me: \”Hurry up, it is almost Pesach and we haven\’t done anything yet.\”
The memory goes back several years, when I was a teenager living with my parents and brother in our three-story building in western Tehran.
When you clean your house for Pesach, don\’t forget your drawer full of makeup. Yes, makeup. Your lipstick, lip gloss, foundation and eye shadow may contain wheat and oats that some rabbis say you need to stash away with the rest of your unleavened food products.
In fact, for all the women interviewed in this article, having others judge their Pesach cleaning standards would be just another anxiety to add to their very full plate of pre-Pesach concerns — so they all asked to be quoted anonymously about their experiences cleaning for Pesach.
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