Selling Chametz
Even if you don’t keep a kosher kitchen, and/or you don’t “convert” your kitchen for Pesach, there is still spiritual value in selling your chametz: You are engaging with myriad Jews worldwide in a practice that can be traced back to Torah and, if you include a donations to “ma’ot chitin,” you are enabling those in need to more fully celebrate Pesach.
A Few Things About Pesach (With lots of links)
There is a wealth of information about Pesach (and the challenges of this year) at Exploring Judaism.org.
Omer 5785
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Purim: What’s at Stake
Today is Ta’anit Ester, a half-day fast in solidarity with the biblical Esther who orchestrated a three-day hunger strike to boost her chance of success in approaching the king without having been summoned, potentially a capital offense.
Countup to Torah
Many of us have been counting the days, sometimes the hours and minutes, from when our social and work lives changed. (It’s been close to 365 days, 8,760 hours, over half-a-million minutes.)
We can feel that in every aspect of our coronavirus lives we have been counting up to an end that sometimes appears to be within reach, then eludes us; three steps forward, one back, two forward, three back…a macabre dance.
Yet we persevere; what else should we do? We mourn lives cut short; we question how responses to danger can be so varied; we celebrate medical advances that preserve life; we yearn for touch, for smiles. We get creative, we get despondent.
And we count. We count the ways we’ll celebrate our liberation from isolation. We count on one another.
No longer strangers to counting, we count on our tradition to help ground us, and so it is that we will count omer. Click here for a handy omer counting assistant.
Shabbat shalom !שבת שלום
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