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Recap: a Jewish artist comes to hide at the zoo. The Nazis barge in, demanding pig meat, and some of them kill Rys’ pet pig.

 Distance Learning. Synchronized and asynchronized classes. Zoom. Social distancing. Quarantine. Who knew that these words and concepts would become so important to our daily lives in the last few weeks? As schools have closed their buildings and moved to online classrooms, businesses have directed employees to work from home, rabbanim have stopped shul attendance, and everyone is being directed to stay home unless it’s critical, we are all living in a new reality of spending the bulk of our days in our homes with our families.

1. Self-control

Think about the built in self-control we have every Pesach. We can’t eat our usual foods; some don’t even go out to eat or eat in people’s houses, yet we don’t think twice. We don’t think of it as an option. We just keep doing what we need to do. It’s the same concept as when something isn’t kosher or we’re fleishigs and something is dairy. 

 Dear Alice,

Can you give me general guidelines on the popular Passover foods and their calories? Just want to educate myself so I can make better choices!

Recap: Mrs. Zabinski dismissed her cook and found someone who, she felt, was more trustworthy. Papa went with Jan to rescue more Jews from the ghetto. He had a knapsack with pistols in the bottom and a Nazi stopped him.

Recap: Nazis came and killed many of the zoo animals. The Zabinskis had to think fast how to keep the zoo going, and they requested it become a pig farm to provide meat for the Nazis. Rys gets a baby pig as a pet. Mimi follows Rys downstairs to help him feed his new pet, and this proves to be a big mistake.