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GOOD MORNING! A little more than a week until Pesach and counting ... It's time to give some thought to making the Seder more enjoyable and effective in creating a warm family experience. Most Jews would like their children to feel positively about being Jewish. You cannot transfer your feelings, but you can create the atmosphere and the experience which will engender positive feelings. Anyone I have ever met who loved being Jewish, fondly reminisced about their Zaideh (grandfather) presiding over the Shabbat table or their Bubbie (grandmother) lighting Shabbat candles ... and their Seder! You are a link in that chain!
Q & A: HOW DO I MAKE MY SEDER ENJOYABLE, CREATIVE AND MEANINGFUL?
Remember that the Seder is for the kids, to transmit our history and understanding of life. You've got to make it interesting and intrigue them to ask questions. If a person asks a question, he'll be inclined to hear the answer! The only way to transmit your love and feeling for Judaism is through shared, positive experiences. You need to be excited about the Seder! Some ideas from Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf's Passover - Judaism in a Nutshell:
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THE TWO ANNUAL PESACH JOKES
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Torah Portion of the Week
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This week's Torah portion includes the laws of: the Burnt Offering, Meal Offering, High Priest's Offering, Sin Offerings, Guilt Offerings and Peace Offerings. It concludes with the portions of the Peace Offerings which are allotted to the Priests and the installation ceremony of the Priest for serving in the Sanctuary.
The Torah states:
"And the Lord spoke to Moshe saying: Speak to Aharon and his sons, saying: This is the Law of the Transgression Offering, in the place where the Burnt Offering is slaughtered shall the Transgression Offering be slaughtered before the Lord; it is most holy." (Leviticus 6:17-18)
The Talmud (Yerushalmi Yevomot 8:3) explains that they were offered in the same place in the Sanctuary to save from embarrassment those people bringing a korban, an offering, to atone for their wrongdoings; anyone witnessing the event could assume that the korban was brought as a donation and not necessarily as an atonement for a transgression.
Our lesson: We must be very careful not to cause someone embarrassment or discomfort because of past misdeeds.
Touch someone this Passover! Send them for free the Passover "4 Questions and 2 Jokes" Kit. Go to ProjectInspireOnline.com. You can have them send it to your list or have one sent to you and then you can send it out to whomever you wish! Enjoy!!
CANDLE LIGHTING - April 7:
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Jerusalem 6:27
Guatemala 5:57 Hong Kong 6:22 Honolulu 6:30
J'Burg 5:41 London 7:25 Los Angeles 7:00
Melbourne 5:48 Mexico City 6:34 Miami 7:23
New York 7:0
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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