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Part of Everything you need to know about Passover. Everything you need to know about Passover. Things might become worse, but will eventually improve. Passover is about family, and also the greater community, which is a kind of extended family. Passover is also about home. There, we savor the flavors, smells, melodies, readings, and festive atmosphere of Passover. The chag festival is about the transmission of knowledge from generation to generation.
I have many! One of them consists of the Passover sedarim that we organize with the community at the Patronato de la Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba. So many people gather there to celebrate their freedom.
They bring so much passion and enthusiasm to this celebration. After so many years of celebrating Passover away from my parents and siblings, Zoom has allowed me to sit at their table.
Last Passover, we were able to have a virtual seder with our family from Argentina and the United States. Passover teaches us the value of spiritual freedom. More than years ago, we rebelled and instituted a feast for the soul, the sedarim of Passover, where we thanked Hashem for liberating us from Egypt. In every generation, it is a mitzvah to imagine ourselves as slaves, appreciating the miraculous presence of Moses and Hashem.
It is our connection with the Creator, which we had in the past and maintain today, close to the 14th of Nisan. We relive this time as a liberating energy that empowers us, just as our parents and grandparents taught us, and just as we are sharing it now with our children, grandchildren, and the groups we assist in our community work.
I have pleasant memories of extended family at the Passover table: seven uncles, 20 cousins, my parents, sister, and grandfather. For half a century, I did not experience this tradition, until a Sephardic Rabbi practiced it two years ago with the elderly ladies in the Golden Age Passover Seder, where I used to work.
This ceremony evoked my ancestors and the pandemic that we are the same people! What message was Hashem sending us? Humanity embraced tuma impurity. Our exodus was due to idolatry, intolerance, loss of morals, abuse to the ecosystem, hatred, and injustices. We must be sensitive and supportive. Again and again, we must return to kedusha holiness , elevate our faith, and embrace the Ten Commandments that Hashem passed down to us.
Today, COVID obliges us to heal ourselves or die, to leave Egypt, to purify our bodies and spirits, to get vaccinated, embrace tikkun olam repair , and give genuine love, without asking for anything in return. Kol Israel arevim tze la tze. We are all responsible for each other. It is time to assume it! The story of Nachshon ben Amminadav, the first man who dared to enter the Red Sea, takes on greater importance this Passover.
Many times, we have all the pieces we need, and yet fear, uncertainty, and insecurity paralyze us. We wait for the miracle to happen without understanding that Hashem is waiting for us to take the first step. Getting out of this pandemic will require that, like Nachshon, we take the first step, with the certainty that our path will be filled with miracles that will make us stronger than ever. My first thought is the exodus out of Egypt. So, to me, Passover means freedom, freedom to enjoy our cultural rituals, gather as family, and enjoy life.
On this day, Muslims sell flowers in the street, and the Jewish community opens its doors to them. It gives us hope, during our isolation, that we will once again meet with the people we love. Passover brings us joy and the memory of family.
Passover means the freedom of the Jews from Egypt. It means renewal, home cleaning and painting, new dishes, a new atmosphere, and my children come back in Morocco.
After Pesach, we celebrate Mimouna, a Moroccan ritual that closes the holiday. In each Jewish home, we set the table with lots of food, pastries, and bread. The Torah commands that at least four symbolic cups of wine be consumed during the Passover seder. There may also be one or two extra kiddish cups at your table: One is a cup of wine for the prophet Elijah whose spirit visits on passover. On the chairs, you may see pillows. This is because on Passover you are supposed to recline at the table as a symbol of being free.
There is even a specific section of the seder called the four questions, where the youngest person at the table asks about the different Passover symbols and the elders explain. In addition to eating the foods represented on the seder plate with the exception of lamb, which is not eaten a Passover meal — that breaks up the two halves of the seder — is served. Traditional dishes include matzo ball soup , gefilte fish, beef brisket, chicken and potatoes. More traditional Jews will completely clean out any foods containing chametz from their home.
This has to do with the story of Passover: After the killing of the first born, the Pharaoh agreed to let the Israelites go. But in their haste to leave Egypt, the Israelites could not let their bread rise and so they brought unleavened bread. To commemorate this, Jews do not eat leavened bread for eight days.
Any bread-like substance cakes, dumplings, etc. If you want to bring something for the host, pick up an item from the kosher for Passover section of your supermarket, or stick to a bottle of kosher wine or flowers. Contact us at letters time. By Sarah Gray. Related Stories.
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