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Category: The Seder
Recovery and the Four Cups
For many of us, freedom is choosing four cups of grape juice: Look at the four cups on Passover through the lens of addiction recovery.
Rabbi Kerry Chaplin
April 16, 2024
Holidays
Passover
A Seat For Those Who Can’t Come Home
This year, as we prepare the seder, we encourage an extra setting at your table—an empty chair for our family still in captivity in Gaza.
Rabbinical Assembly
April 15, 2024
October 7th and Israel-Hamas War
Passover
El Séder: Un Resumen
El Séder de Pesaj es, para muchos judíos, la fiesta ritual más importante del año.
Masorti Olami
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The Rabbi Reuven Hammer Institute for Masorti Jewish Learning
April 11, 2024
Holidays
How to observe Passover
Le seder : un aperçu
Le seder de Pessah est pour de nombreux juifs, le repas rituel le plus important de l’année.
Masorti Olami
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The Rabbi Reuven Hammer Institute for Masorti Jewish Learning
April 11, 2024
Holidays
How to observe Passover
Reparations: The Difficulty and Bravery of Asking
Look at reparations and the difficulty and bravery of asking, through the lens of slavery in Egypt, slavery in America, and the Holocaust.
Rabbi-Cantor Michael McCloskey
April 5, 2024
Holidays
Passover
How I Dip Maror in Charoset
Wrapping and dipping maror in charoset at Seder can be part of a family tradition. Explore this one to add more to your own Seder ...
Hazzan Sara Geffen Geller
April 5, 2024
Holidays
Passover
Back to Our Roots
Learn about the Wicked Child of the Four Children by going back to our roots and looking at the meaning of the Hebrew word itself.
Rabbi Adir Yolkut
March 27, 2024
Holidays
Passover
The Living Room Seder
Hosting a living room Seder can allow us to experience a Seder closer to the way that the rabbis thought of it.
Melissa Werbow
March 27, 2024
Holidays
Passover
Dip Your Karpas in Salt Water and Honey?
Dipping Karpas into salt water at the Passover Seder has a mysterious history that invites us to create new dipping and meaning opportunities!
Rabbi Jeremy Markiz
March 27, 2024
Holidays
How to observe Passover
On Passover, We Are All Jews-By-Choice
On Passover, we are all Jews-by-Choice when we choose to remember what it is that brings us together for the holiday.
Andi Kahclamat
March 27, 2024
Conversion
Holidays
All Who Are Hungry and In Need, Come Celebrate Pesach
Through the seder, we learn the importance of hospitality and inviting all who are hungry and in need, to come celebrate Pesach.
Rabbi Daniel J. Isaak
March 27, 2024
Holidays
How to observe Passover
The Seder as a Lived Experience
We use the Seder as a lived experience by reenacting the exodus, not just recounting it. Therefore, we can all connect to Passover.
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman
March 27, 2024
Holidays
Passover
Embracing Change: A Call to Rethink the Passover Seder Plate
How and why can you create a plant-based seder plate? We embrace change during Passover, especially in rethinking the seder plate.
Rabbi Jonathan Bernhard, Executive Director - Jewish Initiative for Animals
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Kayla Kaplan, M.S.
March 13, 2024
Holidays
Passover
Engaging Kids of All Ages in the Passover Seder
Engaging kids of all ages in the Passover seder can feel daunting. Here are my top five tips for engaging everyone at the seder.
Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal
March 13, 2024
Holidays
Passover
This is the Bread of Affliction
This is the bread of affliction: Matzah adorns our Seder plates and nourishes our souls, as well—this food is fulfilling.
Rabbi Mark Asher Goodman
December 26, 2023
Food
Holidays
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 and Environment
Climate change
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