Blessing for Goodbyes
“To you, oh God of change, passage, flux, upheaval, and progress / be with us as the seasons turn…”
The Naming of the Plagues
“Floods and food and famine; we dream / a savior passing…”
Rent Party
“MosesThe quintessential Jewish leader who spoke face to face with God, unlike any other prophet, and who freed the people from Egypt, led them through the desert for forty years, and received the Torah on Mt. Sinai. His Hebrew name is Moshe. came down from the mountain, / plenty tired and more than a little singed…”
Seder Plate Poems
Poet Corie Feiner’s collection of poems explores the sederLit. Order. The festive meal conducted on Passover night, in a specific order with specific rituals to symbolize aspects of the Exodus from Egypt. It is conducted following the haggadah, a book for this purpose. Additionally, there an ancient tradition to have a seder on Rosh Hashanah, which has been practiced in particular by Sephardi communities. This seder involves the blessing and eating of simanim, or symbolic foods. The mystics of Sefat also created a seder for Tu B'shvat, the new year of the trees. plate symbols with depth and beaty.
Mi Chamocha For the Moment, Passover 2024
“We cannot outrun / what humans have wrought…”
Feather, Candle, Spoon
“Now I hold a humble wooden spoon
Its gentle shallow moon-shaped curve…”
Lo Dayenu (for Passover 5784)
“If we gather around the Seder table in joy and don’t make room for tears, lo dayenu…”
Why On This Night? Four Questions for 5784
“On this night, as we gather in our narrow places, / how can we not mourn the loss of our dear ones,
those in captivity, those gone,
those no longer our friends?”
‘A Way In’ Passover Guide to Honor and Heal our Broken Hearts, 2024/5784
Rabbi YaelA female character in the Book of Judges who is instrumental in the Israelites' obtaining the victory that Deborah had prophesied. When she encountered the enemy king Sisera, Yael invites him into her tent. She feeds him milk to make him drowsy and, when he fell asleep, she murders him by driving a tent peg through his temple. Levy shares a Jewish mindfulness approach to this year’s seder.
Passover Seder Ideas for Time of War and Crisis
Rabbi JudithJudith saved her people by seducing Holofernes, the enemy general, and then decapitating him. The story of Judith, found in the apocrypha, is associated with Chanukah (relating to the tradition of eating cheese dishes because she seduced the general and fed him dairy). Her Hebrew name is Yehudit. Edelman-Green shares new rituals for this PassoverPassover is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jewish people's liberation from slavery and Exodus from Egypt. Its Hebrew name is Pesakh. Its name derives from the tenth plague, in which God "passed over" the homes of the Jewish firstborn, slaying only the Egyptian firstborn. Passover is celebrated for a week, and many diaspora Jews celebrate for eight days. The holiday begins at home at a seder meal and ritual the first (and sometimes second) night. Jews tell the story of the Exodus using a text called the haggadah, and eat specific food (matzah, maror, haroset, etc)..
