Reply To: Have Pesach and all major holidays become a competition of sorts?

When I was a child, spring cleaning didn’t start months in advance. There was hardly any kosher food to buy so there were no mad rushes to the supermarket. Each family brought a pot of food to share with the others and the goal was to be together to enjoy the holiday.

Today we have lineups at supermarkets, aisles almost empty mid-Pesach, and we are making grocers very rich with the amount of cooking and baking we do–not to mention the fatigue.

I don’t understand the change, do you?