Scroll down to sign up to join a digital seder, learn more about hosting your own, access further resources on celebrating Pesach this year, learn more about Yizkor observance, and information on how we’re counting the Omer as a community.
Our Community Seder
Ritual elements you’ll need (it’s okay if you don’t have any of them too!):
- Candles and matches
- Wine and glasses
- Seder plate: pesach (shank bone – may use a roasted beet instead), karpas (parsley), charoset, maror, hard-boiled egg, optional: lettuce or other bitter green. If you are unable to make your own Seder plate, we will have one on the screen for everyone.
- Small bowl of salt water and green vegetable for dipping
- Bowl or pitcher for hand washing and towels
- Plate with 3 matzot
- Elijah’s cup (filled with wine)
- Miriam’s cup (filled with water)
- Our Community Seder Haggadah (we recommend printing the haggadah beforehand to make it easier to follow along)
How to Host a Digital Seder
In the video below, our clergy team provides some excellent advice and coaching for how to host a digital seder and how to celebrate Pesach in this time of social distancing. Click here to view and download the powerpoint.
More Resources
– Click here to for a step-by-step guide to hosting a meaning and fun seder online.
– Here is a collection of resources, books, flipbooks, and other materials from the CCAR Press (the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Reform movement’s professional rabbinical organization.
– Check out this document – a living, collaborative, open resource for celebrating Pesach, crowdsourced from people all over!
– Click here to read Sacred Design Lab’s Principles for Online Ritual Design, which outlines both spiritual and practical steps you can take to enhance your seder.
Upcoming Pesach Learning Sessions
The Zoom links to these sessions will be available in the daily email. If you aren’t receiving the daily email, email us at ShowClick Here to View Contact Information.
- Sunday, April 5, 4:30pm: Join us for another introduction on how to host a digital seder. This session will be similar to the session hosted on March 31.
- Monday, April 6, 5:00pm: Cantor Caro will host a drop-in session to answer any questions about Pesach or your seder that you may have.
- Tuesday, April 7, 8:45am: Rabbi Holzman will host a Community Pesach Check-In so we can check in together and ask any last minute Pesach questions you may have.
Creative Resources
Yizkor
Our Yizkor (memorial) Service will take place on Zoom on Tuesday, April 14, at 7:00pm. Come with your memories and stories to tell.
Zoom information can be found in your daily email closer to the date.
Counting the Omer
We are all deeply aware of the passage of each day at this time, as we are confining ourselves to our homes for health and safety. And we are likely counting the days until we can emerge into a healthy world. Judaism has a built-in practice of counting at this time of year. This period is called the Omer, marking the journey from Pesach to Shavuot, from the emergence from slavery to a moment of freedom and communal responsibility. We are going to practice this counting each day together, these 49 days, so that together we might cultivate mindfulness and meaning in the completeness of each and every day.
We will mark and count the Omer together with a 5-7 minute virtual gathering beginning on Thursday April 9th at 6:00 pm.
Our counting will continue nightly at 6:00 pm, with the exceptions of Shabbat evening (Friday) and Havdalah (Saturday) when we will incorporate the counting into our worship experiences.
Watch our daily email for the link.
