The Sunflower on Our Seder Table: For Ukraine
Pesach, Matzah, and Marror
We know what those symbols are for:
Remember the sacrifice,
Hold sacred the flight,
Taste the bitterness without any delight.
Each year at our seder on the table we add,
Items, in addition to those used traditionally.
We do this to encourage ourselves to ask and seek,
“What makes this night different?”
and “What is our task?”
We hope the sunflower will spark such a query,
So we can explain to all the weary,
So that we reflect on ourselves and around us.
That our sisters and brothers, both Jewish and other,
Want to live freely in peace with each other.
So why the sunflower this year on our table?
To hope for those who might not be able,
To celebrate Pesach this year as free Jews.
To remember all those people, who cannot,
Through acts of tyranny, celebrate life as free people.
When all they want is the basic freedom,
To live in Ukraine however they choose.
We hope in this symbol that we will learn
That’s it’s peace we all want, it’s freedom we yearn.
On this seder night we hope and we act,
That the world will bring peace to Ukraine today.
So tonight as this sunflower graces our table,
Let us pledge to raise funds, to send food if we’re able.
So the freedom we celebrate and the story we hear,
Will inspire us to help others make this a better year.
לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה יִהְיֶה שָׁלוֹם
For next year,
Let there be peace.
Honoring The People Of Ukraine
- Introduction
- Commentary / Readings
- Yachatz
- Maggid - Beginning
- -- Four Questions
- -- Four Children
- -- Exodus Story
- -- Cup #2 & Dayenu
- Shulchan Oreich
- Bareich
- Hallel
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