In the 2 weeks leading up to Passover 2020 with students away and many students, alumni and parents all eager to learn more about Passover, as some are doing their own Seders for the first time, we did a series of daily Haggadah Insights and Passover Prep (ranging from 7 to 17 minutes each) all viewable live or later on our personal page Facebook timeline.
Some asked to have them all these short videos linked in one accessible place, so here they are below, captioned by topic and in the order we did it. Scroll down to see Zoom video links of our Model Seder (and soon our Passover Cooking). Click on each link to view it on Facebook:
(1) The Strange Placement of the Haggadah’s Passover Seder Invite
(2) Seeing Ourselves as if Currently Leaving Egypt (and MLB Opening Day)
(3) Shabbat in the Haggadah and during Passover
(4) Removal of Chametz: Physically & Spiritually, Practically & Mentally
(5) Two Most Important Mitzvot at the Seder – plus Matzah Insights
(6) Insights into Haggadah’s Four Sons
(7) Seder Questions and Questions in Judaism
(8) Numbers in the Haggadah, Seder Song Symbolism (and Census Day 2020)
(9) Why Break the Middle Matzah? (and related about whole & broken Shofar blasts).
(10) Haggadah to and by ourselves – and Rebbe stories of empowerment.
(11) Types of Chametz, the 3 Prohibitions and 3 ways to deal with Chametz – plus Kitniyot
(12) The Search for the Chametz on the night before Passover, Burning Chametz, Seder Plate etc (this one was a big rushed, less prepared… Exodus?)
(13) 15 Seder Steps Review in under 15 Minutes – on the steps and near a window…
(14) Chol HaMoed – the weekday part of the (Passover) holiday
(15) The Omer Count – with or without a blessing can be a personal blessing
(16) About the significance and relevance of the 7th and 8th days of Passover!
(17) The After-Passover Tefillin Story
and here’s a link to view our 1-hour Model Seder at Torah-Tuesday over Zoom (the 1st class):