Passover
Freedom may be defined as the right to ask questions.
Passover 2025: April 12- April 20.
This is where it all began, when a family of tribes became a nation of people, when a body of slaves became a soul of freedom. Some people have an exit strategy; we have an exodus strategy. Freedom requires the removal of all ego. Then, you can sit down to the Seder, eat the matzo, drink the four cups of wine, and tell the story of your journey. We are all children and we all ask questions. There is a Seder plate and there are fifteen steps to the journey. These steps aren’t measured by their number but by their infinity. This is what it means to be a free people.
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The Freedom To Passover
The Hebrew word for “Egypt,” mitzrayim, means “boundaries,” and the endeavor to free ourselves from yesterday’s boundaries is a perpetual one.
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The Frog in the Oven
A spiritual explanation of the symbolism of the plague of frogs during the final days before the Exodus from Egypt.
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The Great Shabbat
Spiritual explanation: The Shabbat before Passover is called “The Great Shabbat” (Shabbat HaGadol), because a great miracle occurred on that day.
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The Journey
Counting the Omer: Beginning with the second night of Passover, we count the days traversed from the Exodus, chronicling the milestones and stations of our journey of self-refinement.
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The Mountain and the Sea
When the Jew is headed towards Sinai and is confronted with a hostile or indifferent world, his response must be to go forward.
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The Muddy Path
This, explain the Chassidic masters, is the spiritual significance of the “splitting of the sea.”
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The Original 15 Step Program
The Seder is a profound mosaic that provides us with the keys to open the doors of freedom on Passover Eve.
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The Question of Freedom
Young children begin the Passover Seder by asking the Four Questions. A look beneath the surface of this custom.
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The Real G-d
The real me, and the real you, are exposed when we are actively engaged in activities that better the lives of others and enrich our society.
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The Third Seder
Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Chassidic movement, instituted the custom of partaking of “Moshiach’s Feast”—a mirror seder of sorts that includes matzah and wine—on the afternoon of the eighth day of Passover.
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