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Passover

Passover is the most widely celebrated Jewish holiday in North America. What makes Passover appealing to so many of us? Is it the fact that Passover is a home-based holiday, which offers an opportunity for family and friends to gather around the seder table, recalling past memories and creating new ones? Or is it that the core themes of slavery and liberation still resonate so deeply within us that we want to retell the story of Passover again and again each year?

Four Questions

A poem highlighting connections between generations [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: four questions

How Does the Journey to Freedom Begin?

A reading to begin the Passover seder about the journey toward freedom [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: maggid, Tamara Cohen

Maggid – Telling the Story

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

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: maggid

Go Forth and Learn

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

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: maggid

How Women's Loving-Kindness Saved Israel

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

Found In: Torah Portion: Parashah, Parts of the Seder

Tags: maggid, shemot

The Telling

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

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: maggid

The Ballad of the Five Women

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. [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: maggid

Exodus 1:1-2:10

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. [more]

Found In: Torah Portion: Parashah, Passover

Tags: maggid, shemot

Yachatz

A responsive reading for breaking the middle matzah at the Passover seder [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: matzah

Yachatz: Some do not get the chance to rise ...

A poem for the breaking of the middle matzah at the beginning of the Passover Seder [more]

Found In: Parts of the Seder

Tags: matzah