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Category: The Seder
Yachatz: Brokenness and Wholeness
One explanation offered by the Sages for Yachatz in the seder is that it helps promote making the world less broken, if not completely whole.
Rabbi Dr. J.B. Sacks
April 3, 2023
Holidays
Passover
Climate Disruption and Passover
Let’s do more than remember our refugee origin story and include how climate change and disruption are leading to new refugees.
Yaira Robinson
April 3, 2023
Climate change
Holidays
Why Is Diversity Important at the Passover Seder?
This is why I think my family's tradition of inviting a non-Jew each year to the Passover seder is important.
Emily Jaeger
March 19, 2023
Holidays
How to observe Passover
When Can a Passover Seder Start Early? Other Festivals?
When is the earliest time that we can begin observing Jewish festivals, on first or second day of Yom Tov, in particular, the Passover seder?
Exploring Judaism
March 19, 2023
CJLS
Halakhah
The Important Thing That Keeps our Family “Doing Jewish”
The most important thing to teach the next generation is how to make a seder, including what comes before the festival candles are even lit.
Atty Garfinkel-Berry
April 13, 2022
Food
Passover
The Four Children and Racial Justice
We approach the Haggadah at a time of profound racial reckoning in our country. How might the four children help us relate to racial justice?
Rabbi Amy Eilberg
April 6, 2022
Passover
Passover Reflections
How to Make a Seder for Everyone
The key to hosting a successful seder for everyone is to articulate a bold purpose in gathering and map the journey.
Rabbi Lauren Henderson
April 5, 2022
Passover
Preparing for Passover
How to Make your Zoom Seder not Suck
Hosting a Zoom seder is not just putting a webcam on your seder plate. These tips will ensure your guests won’t succumb to Zoom fatigue.
Eric M. Leiderman
April 3, 2022
How to observe Passover
Passover
Hosting a Seder for People New to Judaism or the Seder
The Seder is a potpourri of powerful rituals, wise rabbinic aphorisms, and opportunities to elevate the mundanities of eating into holiness.
Rabbi Adir Yolkut
April 3, 2022
How to observe Passover
Passover
Ask the Questions and Dig Deeper
Combining lessons from the Mishnah and Human Resources, we realize that asking questions is the path to greater understanding.
Chaim H. Respes
April 3, 2022
Passover
Passover Reflections
Tips for Passover with Toddlers
After all of the preparation, all that’s left to do is celebrate the holiday. How do you do that with your young children?
Sarah Pila-Leiderman
March 31, 2022
Passover
Passover with Children
7 Tips for Hosting Your First Passover Seder
If this is your first-time hosting a Passover Seder, here are seven tips to make it a memorable and meaningful experience!
Rabbi Adam Greenwald
March 30, 2022
How to observe Passover
Passover
The Seder: An Overview
The Passover seder is the cumulative result of untold generations of Jews telling the same story, the Exodus from Egypt.
Rabbi Alan Lucas
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The Observant Life (Book)
March 22, 2022
How to observe Passover
Passover