The Seder

I just love the colours of these Kosmos flowers that spread along the roadside on our drive to school each day.


Tonight is the first night of Pesach. At the Passover Seder we are reminded of being slaves in Egypt and the story of the Exodus is retold.

By reading the Haggadah each Pesach, a hundred generations of Jews have handed on the story to their children.

"The word 'haggadah' means to 'relate, to tell, to expound'. But it comes from a Hebrew root that also means 'to bind, to join, to connect'. By reciting the Haggadah, Jews give their children a sense of connectedness to Jews throughout the world, and to the Jewish people through time. It joins them to a past and future, a history and destiny, and makes them characters in its drama. Every other people known to mankind have been united because they lived in the same place, spoke the same language, were part of the same culture. Jews alone, dispersed across continents, speaking different languages and participating in different cultures, have been bound together by a narrative, which they told in the same way on the same night."
The Chief Rabbi's Haggadah - Jonathan Sacks







My Joy Today:
~ The feeling of familiarity that comes with repeating family traditions year after year.
~ Renewing a spiritual connection as we read the story of Pesach in the Haggadah.
~ Sharing the symbolic meanings of the Seder plate and the four cups of wine with our children.
~ Listening to the children sing parts of the haggadah and joining in with them!




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