Saturday, December 06, 2008
Aid El-Kebir
My sister, who lives in Rabat, Morocco, informed us that Rabat was briefly mentioned in the news, via this CNN story. They're gearing up in Morocco for Aid El-Kebir, the Feast of the Lamb, a religious holiday in which about five million sheep will be sacrificed. Their neighbor has offered to kill a lamb in their backyard for free for my sister and her husband- apparently, this can be costly. I think she intends to be out of the house when this happens!
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I'm kind of dumbstruck.
Yeah, I'd imagine the sheep are too.
Pardon my ignorance, but does sacrificing a sheep still mean killing it but not eating it?
I think they're eating them- I'm probably wrong, but I thought this might be a feast for the returning pilgrims.
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