#Passover #Seder #Table, a celebration feast at the beginning of Passoverhttps://ExploreTraveler.com/

Send #Passover blessings to your loved ones and celebrate the #Jewish #holiday with them.
http://www.123greetings.com/events/passover/happy/passover_wishes_blessings.html

Enjoy a short Kabbalistic explanation of the inner essence of #Passover and share it with your loved ones.
http://www.123greetings.com/events/passover/happy/passover_animation.html

"#Ethiopian #Jews prepare largest #Seder for #Passover and pray next year in #Jerusalem."

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#ChagSameach #Israel #NextYearinJerusslem 

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New Passover Traditions Arrise As We Celebrate the Changing Role of Jewish Women: During Passover, the festival that Francine Klagsbrun (Jewish Days 1996) describes as “the most widely celebrated of all Jewish holidays,” new traditions have made their way onto the seder plate and on the Passover table. Two in particular, the orange and Miriam’s cup, highlight the contributions women have made to Jewish life. As you plan your seder, consider making these part of your own family Pesach... Click below to read more.

I'll be on and offline, working on final preparations for #Passover. Hag Sameach! 

Passover begins at sundown this Friday and I can't think of a more joyous read for the holiday than April Halprin Wayland's new picture book, MORE THAN ENOUGH. Illustrations by Katie Kath.
Dayenu!

#kidlit   #picturebookreview   #childrensbooks   #JewishHolidays   #Seder   #kidsbooks   #gratitude   #Passover  

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Passover: the Freedom to Serve

“This year we are here, next year in Jerusalem! This year we are slaves, next year — free people!”

Thus begins the central observance of the Passover seder — the maggid — the narrative of the Jewish people’s exodus from Egypt. And so it would seem that herein lies the essence of the evening and of the holiday: our national transformation from servitude to freedom.

Indeed, contemporary culture recognizes no loftier ideal than freedom, no more contemptible degradation than slavery. And yet, when Jacob looked with trepidation at the beginnings of exile as he prepares to lead his family down into Egypt, the Almighty reassured him with the words, “al tiroh avdi Yaakov — Do not fear, My servant Jacob.” The sages observe that only ten were called by G-d, “My servant,” and that there is no greater accolade than to be considered a servant of the Divine.

How can this be? We were servants to Pharaoh in Egypt, and on Passover we celebrate freedom. If freedom is our goal, why is My servant the highest praise with which Jacob and the other luminaries of Jewish tradition can be lauded?

The answer is really self-evident.

Click to read the whole article.
https://yonasongoldson.com/2016/04/18/passover-the-freedom-to-serve/

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Shavua Tov! In preparation for Passover here are 10 amazing things about the holiday: http://bit.ly/1MBgsSV #Passover #seder #traditions

If you're wondering what your #Passover  dessert is going to be, here it is. Sweet, crunchy, sparkly and utterly addictive 3-Ingredient White Chocolate Matzo Treats.

http://www.shockinglydelicious.com/3-ingredient-white-chocolate-matzo-treats/

#recipeoftheday   #dessert   #dessertrecipes   #jewish   #matzo   #easyrecipes  

Here are a few tips to make this year's #Passover #seder stand out from past years. Watch the video and Share-On-The-Go!
http://www.123greetings.com/events/passover/seder/passover_seder_hacks.html

The Five Cups of Passover Wine?

As everyone knows, on the first night of Passover we eat matzah and bitter herbs, we recline at the table, and we drink five cups of wine.

Five cups of wine? We drink four cups of wine, don’t we?

Well, that depends whom you ask.

Of course, it really is only four cups that we drink at the Passover seder. Acceptance of this practice, however, has not always been universal. Rather, it evolved as the best possible compromise between two contradictory Talmudic traditions. And only by going back to the root of the custom can we fully appreciate the relevance of our annual reenactment of the Exodus from Egypt.

The four cups of wine reflect four separate phases that concluded with the Jewish people’s transformation from Egyptian slaves into a free and autonomous nation. Within the narrative of the Exodus itself, four different expressions of redemption allude to the process through which the Jews attained their freedom — a freedom that was not born in an instant, but only as the culmination of four distinct and imperative stages.

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https://yonasongoldson.com/2016/04/21/the-five-cups-of-passover-wine/

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Try your hand at making your own charoset this Passover with this fun take on the classic version! http://bit.ly/1YIBOyz #Passover #charoset #recipe

Send across warm wishes and #blessings to your dear ones on #Passover with this ecard.
http://www.123greetings.com/events/passover/happy/passover_wishes_blessings_1.html

Passover: the Illusion of Freedom

After generations of slavery and oppression, amidst miracles unprecedented and unrepeated, the Children of Israel marched forth out of Egypt and into the wilderness as a free people for the first time in their collective memory. Fifty days later they stood together at Sinai to receive the Torah — the code of 613 commandments that would define every aspect of their lives.

What happened to freedom? What happened to the promise of redemption when all that really happened was the trading of one master for another?

Much of the modern world has built its understanding of freedom upon Thomas Jefferson’s famous formulation of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” But what would life be like in a society of unrestricted freedom? How many of us would choose to live in with no rules at all, where everyone was free to drive on either side of the road, to take whatever they desired regardless of rightful ownership, to indulge every whim and impulse without a thought of accountability? The absolute “freedom” of pure anarchy would provide no protection for the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Consequently, it would provide no freedom at all.

Intuitively, we understand that some freedoms have to be sacrificed in order to preserve order and ensure the common welfare. If so, we are forced to refine our concept of freedom.

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https://yonasongoldson.com/2016/04/20/passover-the-illusion-of-freedom/

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Send wishes to your family for a joyful #Passover.
http://www.123greetings.com/events/passover/family/wishing_you_peace_on_passover.html

Passover and the First Holocaust

After yesterday’s terrorist bus bombing in Jerusalem, the first in years, Jews around the world felt the painful reminder of our precarious place among nations dedicated to our destruction. With the Passover festival approaching, these thoughts from 2005 remind us that Holocaust is not a phenomenon of the last century, or even the last millennium.

The extermination of six million Jews in the Nazi death camps represents but the most recent in a long history of Jewish holocausts. It was preceded by the Chmielnicki massacres in 17th century Poland, the Almohad massacres in 12th century Spain, the Inquisition and the Crusades and the relentless spilling of blood by the Roman legions — all these and similar chapters in the long, brutal history of attempted genocide against the Jewish people.

When did it all begin?

According to Jewish tradition, it began 3328 years ago, when nearly two and a half million Jews died in a single night.

Click to read the whole article:
https://yonasongoldson.com/2016/04/19/passover-and-the-first-holocaust/

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Share a #smile across the miles with your #friend on #Passover!
http://www.123greetings.com/events/passover/friends/wish_you_peace_on_passover.html

Share this quirky card to express the meaning of #Passover to your folks.
http://www.123greetings.com/events/passover/happy/passover_fun_you_will_love_this.html