Clips Library
-
Orange on the Seder Plate
Many families and congregations have begun adding an orange to the Seder plate as a way of acknowledging the role of women in Jewish life. The origin of this custom has been described in a variety of ways; however, the a ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Religious Action Center -
HaDerekh – The path
The path that brought us to who we are today is full of flowers we can see and smell. The flowers here on our Seder plate represent the beauty within each of us on this path of life, but we must recognize the sticks and stones tha ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by JQ International -
At Seder Table, Pledge Exodus
By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky and Liz Offenbach Whether in prayer or conversation, the words we use are not taken lightly in Judaism, especially when they are harmful to others. Jewis ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Kerry Olitzky -
HaDerekh – The path – הַ
The path that brought us to who we are today is full of flowers we can see and smell. The flowers here on our Seder plate represent the beauty within each of us on this path of lif ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by caroline -
Discussion
“Mitzrayim,” Hebrew for Egypt, literally means narrow straits. Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more than the literal escape from slavery, more than an escape from a place of narrow straights, an obviously accu ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by caroline -
Eyru’ayim – The reading of
1939 Gad Beck, a gay Jewish teenager living in Hitler's Germany joined the Jewish underground, smuggling food, arranging housing and helping Jews escape from Berlin, often by bribi ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by caroline -
Tapuz v’Ko’kos – The Ora
Why do we have an orange and a coconut on the Seder Plate? Speaker 1: In our own day as in the ancient days of our tradition, an event becomes a story, a story is woven with new le ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by JQ International
