Sharing Stories of Hope — Online Passover Seder
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Although they are not full festivals, they are still holy relative to ordinary days.
From seder plates and Passover treats to jumping frogs and Haggadahs, step up your seder game this year.
The word “seder” means order and it refers to these building blocks of the ritual.
How to mark the middle days of the eight-day festival.
In 2024, the first Passover seder is on Monday, April 22.
Your guide to which foods are customarily avoided on the holiday.
Commemorating the foundational event in Jewish history makes Jews who they are.
In this reading, God tells Moses to instruct the Israelites about the three pilgrimage festivals — Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot — as well as Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. All these days shall be marked as sacred occasions and no work shall be performed.
Torah Reading
Leviticus 22:26 – 23:44
Numbers 28:16 – 28:25
Haftarah
II Kings 23:1 – 23:9
II Kings 23:21 – 23:25
Featured Commentary
The Jewish concept of holiness is bound to notions of sacred time and space–and reaching out to those in need.
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The visceral cries of the enslaved Israelites, not their words, was essential to the process of liberation.
My return to sacred space.
When we look at the dark future like God wrestlers, then even in the darkest moments, we can maintain a clear and piercing vision.
Asenath Barazani (also spelled Asnat or Osnat) led a yeshiva in 17th century Kurdistan.
The territories of the former Russian Empire were the cradle of Jewish modernity, the birthplace of Zionism and Jewish socialism, and a major center of the Hasidic movement.
From cabal to camel, a list of English words that derive from Hebrew.
The Jewish concept of a divinely ordained soulmate dates back at least to the Talmud.
Dreaming was a major source of prophetic insight in the Torah, but Jewish texts also betray a certain anxiety about dreaming.