Holidays

How Does the Journey to Freedom Begin? | Reading

By Tamara Cohen

A reading to begin the Passover seder about the journey toward freedom

Maggid – Telling the Story | Reading

A dialogue with an imaginary Israelite woman on the eve of the Exodus from Egypt

Go Forth and Learn | Reading

By Tamara Cohen

Describes the parallelism of Sarah's oppression of Hagar, the Egyptian, and Pharaoh's oppression of the Israelites

How Women's Loving-Kindness Saved Israel | Reading

By Chrystal Corces

Two readers tell the story of the five courageous women who galvanized the exodus

The Telling | Reading

By Arielle Derby

The story of the liberation from the perspective of the women - Yocheved, Miriam, Shifrah, Puah, Batya and Tzipora

The Ballad of the Five Women | Song

By Rabbi Burt Jacobson

The Ballad of the Five Women (sung to the tune of "She'll be coming Round the Mountain") tells the story of Shifrah, Puah, Miriam, Batya and Tzipora, five women of the Exodus.

Exodus 1:1-2:10 | Reading

Some people choose to read all or part of this section of Exodus which tells of the beginning of Israelite slavery at their seder tables.