Topic Tags: passover

“Was pharaoh taught to love…”

“The annual retelling is like the sharing of all hard stories, / never told the same way twice.”

This powerful new poem written for Passover 2024 uses the framework of the four children to explore the challenges in our world.

“Where is the waiting Nachshon, Prince of the tribe of Judah / who jumps into the swirling sea…”

“All of the marriages, promises all the lives and deaths behind us all the way back to the Red Sea’s crossing…”

“That frog, / that inconsequential, modest frog, / held our fate in its webbed feet…”

Adva Chattler adapts four Passover rituals to mark the holiday during this time of war.