Mental Health Seder Yachatz

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As we begin retelling the story of our redemption, we take the three pieces of matzah before us, remove the center piece, and split it in half. We eat the first half at the beginning of the Seder and hide the other half, which serves as the afikoman we eat at the conclusion of the Seder. It is worth noting the bread of slavery consumed at the beginning of the Seder and the bread of freedom we eat at the end of the Seder both come from the same piece of matzah.

Sometimes the difference between the things that cause us pain and those that give us pleasure is simply a matter of perspective. When seen through the lens of miraculous redemption and a recognition of the larger picture of our path to freedom, the bread of slavery transforms into the bread of freedom it was always intended to become. We must also remember — or hope — the potential for recovery isinside of us, waiting to be recognized or — like the afikomen — found.

Prompt: What experience in your own life caused you pain but, in hindsight, can be seen as a blessing? Or, if you currently find yourself in the midst of a painful experience, can you try to identify one positive aspect or lesson you can learn from it?

From the Mental Health Passover Seder Companion by The Blue Dove Foundation

Source:  
https://thebluedovefoundation.org/resource/the-mental-health-passover-seder-companion/
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Table of contents
    Introduction
  • Let Us Light Candles for Peace
  • Building Your Mental Health Passover Seder Plate
  • A Blessing Before Candle Lighting
    • Prayer for Healing the Planet
    • A Prayer for Human Rights by Rabbi Brant Rosen
    • Four Questions About Four Personalities...
    • Instead Of: A Prayer for Peace by Trisha Arlin
    • Mi Sheberach For Those Who Feel Overwhelmed
    • Mi Sheberach For The Victims of Anti-Semitism
      • Kadesh, Songs
    • Karaoke Seder - First Cup Intro
      • Karpas, Yachatz, Maggid - Beginning, Rachtzah, Commentary / Readings, Bareich
    • Coping with the Empty Chair at the Seder: A Personal Journal for Memory and Contemplation
      • Karpas
    • A Prayer For Compassion
      • Yachatz, -- Ten Plagues, Maror
    • Mi Sheberach for Grief
      • Yachatz
    • Mental Health Seder Yachatz
    • In Every Generation: Embracing Brokenness
    • How Did the Israelites Wind Up in Egypt in the First Place?
      • -- Exodus Story
    • The Exodus In All Of Us
    • Building Resilience Through Family Stories
      • -- Four Questions
    • Four Mental Health Questions for Passover
      • -- Four Children
    • Blessing The Children In All Of Us
      • -- Ten Plagues
    • A Prayer for the End of Bloodshed
    • Prayer For The Captive Women And Children
      • Maggid - Beginning, -- Cup #2 & Dayenu
    • Can you feel the Dayen-ergy? It would have been Ken-ough
      • Motzi-Matzah
    • A Motzi for Sustainability by Trisha Arlin
      • Introduction, Kadesh, Urchatz, Yachatz, Karpas, Maggid - Beginning, Maror, Bareich
    • Prayers On Behalf of Soldiers & Those Being Called to Active Service
      • Shulchan Oreich
    • Family Story Questions For Your Seder Table
      • Bareich
    • Mi Sheberach For Mental Health
      • Nirtzah
    • World To Come by Sarina Elenbogen-Siegel
    • In Every Generation: Next Year in Jerusalem--Messages of Hope
      • Conclusion
    • Oseh Shalom
      • Songs
    • The Wandering is Over Haggadah - Who Knows One
    • The Wandering is Over Haggadah - Chad Gadya
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