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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Recap:Mr. Greenspan, Zeidy’s friend, drives Akiva to shul for his bar mitzvah lesson. He gives...
Recap: A strange lady dressed in black comes to the door and warns Yehudis, “This house has a bad reputation. Things happen here. You should tell your parents it would be better not to stay here.”
I’d like to wish all our readers, supporters, and friends a Chag Kasher v’Samei’ach. This was a year nobody will ever forget; it was one filled with much loss and has left many picking up the pieces of their lives. Our shuls and schools were closed, businesses remain in shambles, we experienced a tremendous loss of life, medical issues have plagued society, and there is still incredible unemployment. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.
In every generation a person is obliged to see himself as if he had come out of Egypt.
– The Haggadah of Pesach
In Egypt, we were beautiful
As G-d’s children, recognizable,
Kept our language and names,
As Hebrews, we were clad.
On the first night of Nisan, we start counting until the moon is full on the 15th of the month. This is Seder night, our annual birthday party as a nation. Some 3,000 years ago, we were an enslaved people yearning for liberation from a tyrant. With the Haggadah, every year we gather to start our calendar anew by retelling the saga of the birth of the unbreakable soul of our nation. Pesach reminds us that we have a powerful, unique neshamah (soul) as individuals and are also a part of the greater soul of the Jewish People.
With Pesach barely a month away, one aspect of the Festival of Freedom is dominating my thoughts in recent days. Dayeinu. It would be enough for us; a popular Seder night responsive song.
