By Rabbi Patrick Beaulier
This is the year of “keep Passover simple”. During COVID, we all had to simplify our Jewish lives. Shul was online. Passover seders were with those in our home only. And when we bounced back from lockdown, we do so with a Jewish holiday revenge that led to massive seders with a lot of guests and moving parts.
I suspect this year is a retracting year: we had the solemn year, the somewhat-better year, the aforementioned revenge seder, and now the pendulum swings to a quiet evening with those we care about, and less social commitment than ever. So while you can host a seder with a thousand of your nearest and dearest, my suspicion is that very few of us will. Even the synagogues local to me are trimming down their congregational seders, with some even replacing those events with “boot camps” or “lunch and learns” instead of trying to feed and pray with two hundred people.
In the spirit of this Great Retraction, I’m offering you my simplest Passover roundup. Just the highlights, no filler material. I should add that none of these are outside/affiliate links. We gain nothing from giving you this list, other than doing our job to help you live a meaningful Jewish life.
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Darshan Yeshiva to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.