Preparing for Passover

Passover requires a lot of work. Cleaning, cooking and planning a seder involve a great deal of time and labor. These poems, songs, and kavannot help us prepare our hearts as well as our homes.

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Latest Rituals

Passover Pillowcase Ritual
"Seder participants select a decorated pillowcase"
Betty Pollack Shapiro, translated by Orly Maravankin
Eight Ritual Steps of Hakhnasat Orkhim (Welcoming Guests)
Bringing mindfulness to the act of welcoming guests through a chant and series of ritual intentions
Kohenet Bayta Diamond and Rabbi Janet Madden
Nissan Guided Meditation
Questions for contemplation on removing inner hametz
Ilana Schatz
Why Is This Night Different?: A Conversion Journey
Bedikat Hametz Chant
A new chant to sing while searching for hametz
Rabbi Malkah Binah Klein
Three Mizrahi Seder Traditions: From My Home to Yours
Mizrahi seder traditions
Adva Chattler
On the Path to Liberation: A Jewish Men’s Series
Bo: Meeting Pharoah Within the Void
"What more can be said about plagues?"
Tiferet Welch
It's the Voice
"Do we see our world in the burning bush?"
Jaden Diamond
Shemot: Names of Lament
"A life saved by civil disobedience"
Tiferet Welch

Passover Pillowcase Ritual

By Betty Pollack Shapiro, translated by Orly Maravankin

"Seder participants select a decorated pillowcase" more

Eight Ritual Steps of Hakhnasat Orkhim (Welcoming Guests) [Video]

By Kohenet Bayta Diamond and Rabbi Janet Madden

Bringing mindfulness to the act of welcoming guests through a chant and series of ritual intentions more

Nissan Guided Meditation

By Ilana Schatz

Questions for contemplation on removing inner hametz more

Why Is This Night Different?: A Conversion Journey

By Rabbi Nadyne Eliana Lee

Our fortieth anniversary celebrated a marriage that had survived 429 tubes of toothpaste squeezed from the wrong end, three children and three sets of braces, five dogs and four homes, 2,583 argum more