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Praise the Contrary and Its De
For the chief musician, on common instrument: a song of rebellion.Praise rising up. Praise unlawful assembly.Praise the road of excess and the palace of wisdom.Praise glass houses. ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Eileen Levinson -
An Introduction To Our Seder
An Introduction To Our SederEach year, we gather with friends, family, and other members of our community to share the retelling of the story of Passover. We recall a dark time in history when the Jewish People were slaves, when w ...Introductioncontributed by Pamela Ryba -
Eggs
Eggs are prominent and pervasive on Pesah. In fact, so prevalent are they during the holiday week that one might suspect that the ancient Greek name for Pesah actually may have been Cholesterol!Let's start with the Seder Plat ...Introductioncontributed by Gerald Weiss -
Stone Wall-ed in Jerusalem
Stonewall-ed in JerusalemBorn into a secular Jewish family in Rhode Island in 1950, I remained the only family member who had never visited the Holy Land, until conditions recently aligned themselves for a trip to Israel in June 2 ...Covercontributed by Sara Friedlander -
Freeing Your Inner Pharaoh
Freeing Your Inner PharoahHow-t ...Introductioncontributed by jmcbrooklyn -
Why Is This Night Different? V
Here is Mah Nishtanah sung in English translation. ...-- Four Questionscontributed by Gerald Weiss -
Mah Nishtanah - video of song
Learn to sing Mah Nishtanah in Hebrew using this v ...-- Four Questionscontributed by Gerald Weiss -
The Cup of Redemption
There, in the very center of the Seder table, stands a special, ornate kiddush-cup brimming with wine, awaiting the one still expected but as yet un-arrived guest -- the prophet Elijah. Will Elijah come this year, to drink of ...Hallelcontributed by Gerald Weiss -
Two Cups - Elijah's and M
Everybody knows that we place a cup of wine for the prophet Eliah at the center of the Seder table. At a dramatic moment in the Seder, the door is opened to welcome this usually un ...Hallelcontributed by Gerald Weiss -
Parsley, Sages, Saltwater and
We dip a green vegetable, often parsley, into saltwater and recite the blessing for green foods that grow in the ground.Why? The traditional reason, according to the Sages of the a ...Karpascontributed by Gerald Weiss -
Avadim Hayinu (We were slaves
We were slaves in Egypt,So long ago.An evil king oppressed us,That cruel Pharaoh!God sent MosesTo redeem us,To take us out of slavery.That's how God kept the promiseTo set us free. ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Gerald Weiss -
A Mythical Midrash Concerning
According to Ashkenazic Jewish custom, we eat a lot of Gefilte fish on Passover. The question arose as to why Gefilte fish is so closely associated with Passover, and why it seems ...Shulchan Oreichcontributed by Gerald Weiss -
Four Children? Nope! They'
There is something else hidden tonight in addition to the Afikoman.We generally think of the Four Children as distinct individuals, or personalities, or types.Each asks (or d ...-- Four Childrencontributed by Gerald Weiss
