Why I Love Passover

I remember Passover in, "The Old Country", the Southeast Bronx in New York City. sixty years ago. Every Paysach morning my mom would smear butter on a big, flat, crisp, whole matzoh, then cut an onion in half and rub it over the butter. Ahhh, the anticipation of this simple treat made my mouth water. It is one of the few traditions I still adhere to, to this day. When Reb Kantor in Bangkok sends me a box of matzot in the Passover package, I start drooling when I pick it up at my local post office. Reply

Why I Love Passover Rabbi Shalom!
Reviewing Chabad teachings that sends me, I remembered that I had not made comments or acknowledgments. I apologize.

We conducted our Seder with joy and gladness. Thanking Hashem for letting us get here.

Although both danger and insecurity of our City of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Mexico.

I agree with you:..... "but it’s about me leaving my personal Egypt and embarking on my journey to my personal Holy Land and attaining freedom from whatever may be holding me back." Reply

My family always ate seder at a dining room table sized coffee table while sitting on the floor, on and surrounded by pillows. When we went to seders elsewhere where we did picnic style with pillows. The first time I saw people eating a seder at a table while sitting on regular chairs I thought they were crazy. How were the supposed to recline? Reply

The personal experience help us to endure the journey of life. It is that freedom to express ourselves meaningfully that strengthens us along the way. Passover can mean different things for each person, but this made possible so that we can worship in "spirit and in truth" Reply

Well, my family is small, myself, my husband and our son and there have been no inlaws or other family for a long time. Nothing was passed on to me about Seder night, it was all a mystery to me until 6 or 7 years ago when I started learning about Judaism and I attended the Seder of some local families.
Now gradually each year becomes easier as I prepare for Pesach - the only difficulty is that we have dogs and a long established tropical aquarium.
So festivals aren't the same if there is no family to share it with. Reply

THE EXODUS "Oh! Now we are done, they're catching us
And we've barely begun our Exodus!
We're sure to be kiklled with our backs to the waves;
If only we'd stayed in Egypt as slaves!"

"But wait! Thed wind blows strong in a darkening sky
The Reed Sea parts and the and the water piles gigh.
A passage is left and the ground is dry;
If we hurry across, perhaps we'll not die"

Before the last stragglers climb the far shore
The army of Egypt gave vent to a roar:
"Follow them, seize them, bring them all back!
Pharaoh Thom called his princes to start the attack."

When the Israelites saw the passage still dry
And the charioteers began drawing nigh,
The called to their God and He let the waves be
Until each horse and its rider were sunk in the sea.

The Israelites sang and they danced with glee
At the miracles witnessed that had set them free
But once they were safe they said "How can it be
"That there's some sort of god that we cannot see?" Reply

Thank you so much for this post. Passover has always been the most special time of year for me and I have not know why up until now. It is 2 am and I am up trying to decide whether to take the next step in my journey to freedom from my personal Egypt. I asked Hashem to show me what to do....and there it was, your post. I hear his saying "Let my People Go!" and I am walking out...... Reply

My family has always light a memorial candle for the six million Jews that can never celebrate being free. Reply

custom of passover we take the plate with the matzah and we swirel it on each of the sitting inthe table and we ay bibi lou ya tzanou mimistraim ha la ham hanie Reply

Shame! Shame! Freed from bondage, miracles done to reduce the importance of idol-worship; Not a word of recognition for their deliverer, the God who remembered them for Abraham's sake. Shameful blindness! Reply

Excellent words. Thank you. Reply

How wonderful that sounds, when my mother was alive, she had the sedar, and the whole family would come, and we had such a wonderful time, talking and laughing, I loved the food she fixed, no recipe, all in her head, she and 2 brothers and one sister came from Romania, and she kept a kosher house. I miss that so!
how lucky you and your family can enjoy it. We live so far away from our 2 kids, and their familys. both married goy's. What do they know from Passover. Anyway thanks for asking. Enjoy your family. Reply

Passover is the holiday when my family gathers...my adult children live in Montreal,Toronto and Brooklyn everyone arrives with their children.
The Passover table is a gathering ...talking ,kibitzing....etc...
My wife cooks a typical Seder meal....the grand kids look forward to eating her goodies.....meeting their out of town cousins
It is a holiday that I remember as well when I was child Reply

"Matzah & Hot Milk" breakfast! Strange thought occured while eating my first Matzah breakfast last Shabbos. My mind went back to 'us' leaving Egypt, (really this did happen). I never eat Matzah during the year, I feel it's a mitzvah to eat it only on Pesach.
I felt I was 'touched' to experience this feeling & the thought of it! Could be Hashem sent me a 'message of what we did'. Anyone else experience this? Reply

what makes Pesach special in my family I have a 91 year old mother who was taught by her Zadie to say the four questions in Hebrew and than explain them in Yiddush. As the youngest of her siblings, we now require her to say the four questions as her Zadie taught her. Our seder is not complete without her rendition of the four questions. We have video'd her so that her grandchildren and future generations will be able to share that bit of Pesach even when she is no longer able to be with us. Reply

I celebrate the holidays simply because everybody gets together. I am not religious however my wife and I spent the holidays at my friends Jewish and Christians homes because their faith requires them to be in an "embracing all people attitude." I serve the purpose of outsider being embraced by the warmth of faith . I am honored that they have chosen us to share these special holidays. The Holidays show their power when sometimes 2 warring nations would suspend the killing for the holidays and resume afterwards . I believe we should have 365 religious holidays during the year. Reply