7 Insights from the Passover Haggadah

What is Passover?

An overview of the history and laws of the holiday of Passover (Pesach).

Matzah: Bread of Affliction, Bread of Liberation

Symbol of slavery or freedom? Exploring the seeming contradictory meanings of this ancient bread.

Four Transformative Questions to Ask Yourself This Passover

Transformative questions to think about this Passover.

Passover’s 4 Lessons for Today

Practical insights that empower us to stand strong despite the challenges of the pandemic.

Why Did the Majority of Jews Perish in Egypt?

Gaining the determination, courage, and patience to leave behind your personal Egypt.

Sara Yoheved Rigler

Leave the Driving to God

This Passover stop the backseat driving.

The Last Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto

Survivors testify about an epic Seder held in underground bunkers as the Nazis sought to liquidate the last Jews of Warsaw Ghetto.

What’s Your Addiction?

This Passover, I’m experiencing seven days of freedom from my taskmaster. I’m putting my smartphone in my drawer for the entire week.

The Bitter and the Sweet

The fact that we can taste something as bitter is an affirmation of how sweet our lives generally are.

Next Year in Berlin, Ach du Lieber

Eighty-two years after my mother’s hurried departure, my son and his family are moving to Berlin. I’m struggling to accept it.

Jewish Comedians and Splitting the Sea

A surprising answer to why so many Jews become comedians.

Splitting Your Sea

Life is not about the calm. It’s about the waves.

Changing How We Talk about Politics

And Passover is the perfect time to start.

What Is Freedom?

Yosef Mendelovitch was free even while behind bars in a Soviet prison.

Passover Seder by the Numbers

The number 4 isn’t the only important number at the Passover seder.

The Passover Seder: What Kind of Meal Is This?

The Seder isn’t a feast; it’s a spiritual experience that is as relevant today as it was 3500 years ago.

Where Are You?

On Passover God is anxiously waiting for His children to come home.

Four Ways to Find Freedom and Expansiveness Amidst Our Blessings and Adversities

Learning how to run towards, instead of away, from our challenges.

Do You Have the Necessary Grit to Cross Your Red Sea?

Passover relives the moment when the Jewish nation were all in.

Passover and the Spanish Inquisition

Generations of secret Jews defied the Spanish Inquisition to celebrate Passover and other holidays.

Hardening Pharaoh’s Heart: How’s That Fair?

If Pharaoh’s actions are imposed upon him by God, how can he be held accountable and be punished for those actions?

Is Dayenu Really Enough?

The real meaning of one of the Passover seder's most popular songs.

The Fifth Child at Your Seder? The One Who Isn’t There

This Passover, take the first step towards ending estrangement within your family.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Celebrating Passover After the First Year of Covid-19

How do we celebrate when our lives are still filled with so much sadness? The nation's very first Passover provides an answer.

Rick and Dick Hoyt and the Power of Family

Incredible things can happen when you do things together.

Sara Yoheved Rigler

Passover: God’s Calling Card

The purpose of the Exodus was to establish a personal, loving relationship between God and the Jewish People, including every individual Jew.

Make it an IKEA Passover

Because the more you put your own personal effort into something, the more you'll love it.

Under Lockdown: The Festival of Freedom

What COVID-19 has to teach us about real freedom.

Passover and the Three Phases of Life

It’s no accident that life is comprised of highs and lows.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

Passover and the Eleventh Plague

The linkage between Passover and Tisha B'Av offers us tremendous hope and comfort in this tragic time.

Passover and Corona: A Message of Hope

Passover is coming with a powerful message that speaks to us today.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

The Miracle of the Red Sea in Our Lives

How God lets us know that the events of our lives are not haphazard coincidence.

Straightening the Bent Path: The Secret behind the Staff of Moses

Everything has the potential to be used for good or evil. The choice is ours.

PODCAST: Rebbetzin Heller on Breaking Free from What’s Holding You Back

How to get on the path to a better life.

How to Reach Your Personal Exodus

Liberate your will by embracing the power of small.

No Time to Think: 3 Ways to Defeat Pharaoh Today

We are enslaved by epidemic levels of distraction. Here’s how to break free.

Freedom of Speech

Why a central theme of Passover is talking.

Attaining True Empowerment on Passover

Empowerment doesn’t come through conquering and enslaving others.

Cleaning Our Hearts for Passover

Let’s focus on two qualities that make the biggest messes: anger and jealousy. How do I clean my heart of those?

When Do We Eat?: Eating to Live On Passover Night

Delayed gratification transforms the physical into an act of spiritual sustenance.

When I Left Egypt

Experiencing the miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea.

Matzah: Symbol of Oppression or Liberty?

Primo Levi’s account of his experiences in Auschwitz gave me the answer.

My Catholic Friend’s Question

Curiosity is the beginning of freedom.

10 Insights to Share at Your Passover Seder

Inspiring thoughts from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech

The Passover Seder’s Most Important Idea

Passover celebrates the concept of a personal God who cares about us and is the ultimate director of history.

Questions to Spark Your Seder

6 questions that give us a deeper understanding of Passover.

Spiritual Preparation for Passover

12 inspiring ideas about being Jewish to share at your Seder.

British Museum & Evidence of Israelite Slavery in Egypt

A mud brick with straw, stamped with a royal seal that says “House of Ramses ll,” and other cool artifacts.

Matzah: Bread of Freedom and Slavery

Why did the Jewish people have to go through slavery in the first place?

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