I’m sure you’ve found yourself in a “narrow space” now and then. I know I have. I’m reminded of this annually when the Jewish holiday of Passover arrives. But this year as I prepare for my seder, I find myself less focused on the places I feel “squeezed” and more focused on how to …
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I’ve started making plans for my Passover seder. As I do, I sense myself contracting, feeling enslaved, as I think about the preparations I need to make for this Jewish holiday, which happens to celebrate freedom. Yet, many women feel enslaved by housework and cooking all year long. They could feel liberated instead. Despite the …
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Last night my husband I hosted two other couples for a Passover seder. In the traditional Jewish tradition, we spent the evening “reliving” the Israelites journey from slavery to freedom. At our table, the theme of our discussions revolved around the passage through the Red Sea. The Hebrew name for Egypt, Mitzrayim, means “narrow place,” …
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I’m about to go downstairs and start our Passover seder. The sun is setting over the ocean. I can see it from my office window. Seder means order. The service we conduct on Passover has a specific order. However, it strikes me that life has an order, too. And that much like the Israelites as …
Second day of Passover…on to the second symbol on the seder plate: zeroa, the lamb shank, which represents sacrifice. The zeroa symbolizes the Paschal lamb offered as the Passover sacrifice in the ancient Temple. Getting away from the idea of communal sacrifice, I am thinking about personal sacrifice now. Thus, I ask myself: What will …
Tonight many Jews around the world will participate in the observance Passover. They will take part in a first night seder, or service, that commemorates the Israelites freedom from slavery in Egypt. (The word “seder” actually means “order”; the service has a specific order.) I see the seder—actually the whole week of Passover—as a time …
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