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Wash the Hands

by Danielle Feinstein

Wash your hands without reciting a blessing. Pass around a pitcher of water, a bowl, and a towel. Hold the pitcher in one hand and pour water over the other hand. Then reverse hands and repeat. Hands that are spackled with paint, sticky with jelly, or muddy from digging in the garden need to be washed. But at the seder, dressed in crisp holiday clothes, our hands are not stained or soiled. So why wash them? Think about the cool tickle...

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

A Cup to our Teachers

by Smith College Jewish Community

A Cup to our Teachers: To those we have known and those whose work has inspired us, and made space for our lives. We are grateful to you who did and said things for the first time, who claimed and reclaimed our traditions, who forged new tools. Thank you to the teachers around us of all ages-- the people we encounter everyday--who live out their values in small and simple ways, and who are our most regular and loving reminders of...

Urchatz

by Haley Warren

Leader: Slaves eat quickly, stopping neither to wash nor to reflect, but tonight we are free. As we wash, let us reflect on the blessings that are ours. Pass the bowl & pitcher around the table, pouring a few drops of water onto your neighbor’s hands.

Our Seder Is

by Silverlake Independent JCC

Our Seder Is

URCHATZ - Washing of the hands

by Brock Pollock

We wash our hands to clean the energy of the seder table. It is a time for setting the intention for what you want to let go. We are taking a step forward toward freedom. To wash your hands, you don’t need soap, but you do need a cup to pour water over your hands. Pour water on each of your hands three times, alternating between your hands. If the people around your table don’t want to get up to walk...

Urchatz

by Hillel at The University of Oklahoma

We will wash our hands twice during our seder: once, without the blessing, to get us ready for the rituals to come; and then again later, we wash again with a blessing, preparing us for the meal. At this point, we will symbolically wash our hands for everyone. As we take a moment to wash our hands, imagine that you are washing away all anxiety and stress in your life, and allow yourself to be ﬁlled with the hope that the...

Palsover Urchatz

by Hannah Dow

For the first hand-washing, there is no blessing. If you would like to wash your hands, go ahead! The reason we relatively randomly wash our hands is to prompt children to ask questions.

Shulchan Oreich

Eggs: They're Not Just for Breakfast!

by Brandi Ullian

Eggs: They're Not Just for Breakfast!

Washing Hands

by Minnesota Hillel

We will shortly bless and eat karpas - but first we must rituially wash our hands. We will NOT, however, say the blessing that usually accompanies handwashing, because we will not be eating bread afterwards. We wash our hands because they are the what we use to accomplish any task we undertake. Our hands build and write, give and hold, heal and create. Our hands also strike and tear, shatter and bruise, poison and destroy. This ritual is not to wash...

Commentary / Readings

Freedom and Gratefulness

by School of Adaptive Agriculture

Rumi, the Persian poet of the soul, understands the meaning of love in this way: Your task is not to seek love But merely to seek and ﬁnd all the barriers That you have built against it. The same can be said of freedom; we build barriers against it, barriers born of fear-fear of death, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of being happy. An antidote to these fears is gratefulness; when we cultivate our awareness...

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