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 During Passover we remember our ancient story of our people's journey from bondage to liberation.  Moving from metaphor to reality, we bring awareness to the ways slavery is still present and plagues all of us.  Our interconnectedness as people binds all of us and keeps us from being truly free when slavery still exists. “During the Seder, some Jews have the custom of going around the table and imagining themselves as Hebrew slaves in Egypt during the Exodus. They describe their...

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Ritual ComponentLeader:No prayer is recited before we break the middle matzah on our Seder plate. This is a silent, reflective act. Reader:For we recognize that, like the broken matzah, we are incomplete, with prayers yet to be fulfilled, promises still to be redeemed. We hide part of this broken matzah and hope it will be found by the end our Seder meal.For we recognize that parts of ourselves are yet unknown. We are still discovering what makes us whole.We hide the...

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READER: Spring is here. The world is alive and new; the bonds of winter cold are broken. Nature is reborn and the earth feels free and young again. The trees are budding; behind the buds lie flowers. The surprise of the world is about to burst open. In Mitzrayim, our ancestors awoke from their sleep in chains to the life of freedom; in the long wandering out of bondage, our people were reborn into a new life. BORUCH ATTO ADONOI ELOHENU...

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Revolutionary Karpas Jews for Racial & Economic Justice The karpas gives us the tension between the aliveness of Spring and the bitter tears we wept in the land of Egypt. We are refreshed by the greenness of the karpas, yet our tastebuds wince at the salt water to dip them in, as we recall our own experience of being strangers. Our tongues push our thoughts towards those who are made strangers in our present time, in this country. We dip the...

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Kiddush - Wine READER:The joy of Passover is the joy of love; the hope of Passover is the hope of love. Our ancestors suffered the coldness of hate and dreamed of the warmth of human kindness and universal love. And then, after the long winter of their bondage, freedom burst forth upon them like spring. In the rich sweetness of this wine, we celebrate in kinship the love and faith that give life. Love, freedom, and faith in life - these...

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Many centuries ago, at this time of year, our ancestors left the slavery of Egypt to search for national independence and personal dignity. We are here to honor those who have struggled for freedom, to renew our personal commitment to work for justice and peace, and to take heart in our own personal journeys out of oppression. ❍ For it is said: Every person, in every generation, must regard herself or himself as having been personally freed from bondage in Mitzraim,...

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Kiddush - Wine READER: The joy of Passover is the joy of love; the hope of Passover is the hope of love. Our ancestors suffered the coldness of hate and dreamed of the warmth of human kindness and universal love. And then, after the long winter of their bondage, freedom burst forth upon them like spring. In the rich sweetness of this wine, we celebrate in kinship the love and faith that give life. Love, freedom, and faith in life -...