Passover '2023

 PASSOVER 2023

runs  April 5th through April 13th

As we have in the past, we had a seder on the first evening and attended Central Synagogue's live-streamed service, From that evening and throughout the remainder of the holiday we abstained from eating any leavened bread for the remainder of the holiday celebrated each day with menu items based around one of the ten plagues mentioned in the bible.

E.g. for the plague of hail. we had boiled eggs for breakfast, matza ball soup for lunch, roasted meatballs, baby potatoes, and Brussels sprouts for dinner.

Pharaoh and his army

Throughout the holiday as we recalled each new episode of the struggle to get the Pharaoh to free the Hebrews from slavery,  we used props (like frogs, flies, and locusts)  and a set of hand-painted peg dolls to reinforce the story.

Moses, Aaron, the Pharoah, the Pharoah's family and army, and props for the plagues

On the last day of Passover, the entire set of twelve tribes 

were marched across a parted Red Sea 

toward

the Promised Land.

As a  side note,  we are well aware that none of the activities listed above are required or even mentioned by Jewish law or custom ( but neither are they prohibited).  We began acting out  the story of the exodus when the COVID pandemic prohibited us from socializing with others, and we found the dioramas and props to make telling of the story so much more relatable that we decided to make them a Passover tradition in our home.