The Right Answers For The Wrong Questions
Apr 8, 2014 By Julia Andelman | Short Video | Pesah
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Men And Women: In The Kitchen And At The Seder
Apr 8, 2014 By Judith Hauptman | Short Video | Pesah
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The Four Children
Apr 19, 2008 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Aharei Mot | Pesah
We are told to probe the narrative of the redemption from Egypt for insights about what is blocking redemption in our own day and how we can work to bring ultimate redemption into being. The question facing us as we approach the seder, then, is this: What shall we tell our children and grandchildren at Passover—particularly the teenagers, college students, and twenty-somethings who are gathered at the seder table?
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Engaging Our Sons and Daughters at the Seder Table
Apr 4, 2009 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Pesah
I’ll be thinking a lot about my roles as father and son at the seder this year. Having lost my dad between last Passover and this one (my mom died eleven years ago), I’ll be sitting down at the seder table for the first time as someone without living parents.
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A Pesah Message for My Students
Mar 27, 2010 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Shabbat Hagadol | Tzav | Pesah
This week’s Torah portion reports instructions given by God to Moses concerning Aaron and his priestly descendants. The rest of us, as it were, are invited to eavesdrop.
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A New Question for Passover
Apr 16, 2011 By Arnold M. Eisen | Commentary | Shabbat Hagadol | Pesah
The means to ultimate redemption—and a sure sign that redemption has arrived—is peace between the generations. We can’t hope for redemption of the world, the prophet says, if the hearts of fathers and sons (the literal translation of the prophetic verse) are not “returned upon” each other.
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The Bitter Truth
Apr 8, 2014 By David C. Kraemer | Short Video | Pesah
This short video details the history of maror and suggests the possibility of a maror tasting to reflect on what best symbolizes slavery at a seder.
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