This adult education series is about Passover & Counting the Omer. It’s about making space for questions and finding personal meaning in the journey, even (and especially because) none of us have all the answers. 

Here are some resources (with links) that helped Rabbi Minster prepare for the first discussion on April 18th:

“Seder - Relax and Enjoy,” an essay by Rabbi's beloved teacher, Rabbi Haim Ovadia

The 15 Steps of Seder actually, you don’t need a book. You just need a good meal and the decision to have a discussion that uses these fifteen steps to walk from slavery to freedom. Many scholars believe the seder tradition was a way of infusing a Hellenistic celebratory meal with deep meaning. 

“Like an Orange on a Seder Plate: Balancing Tradition and Innovation,” by Rabbi Elisa F. Koppel.

“The Exodus as a Tool to Understand Our Personal Journeys,” by David Paskin

Leading the Passover Journey: The Seder’s Meaning Revealed, the Haggadah’s Story Retold, by Rabbi Nathan Laufer

The Exodus: How it Happened and Why it Matters, by Richard Elliot Friedman

If you can, please join us in person at Temple Israel next Thursday, April 25 for our discussion of Chesed, the focus of the first week of the Counting of the Omer. 

We count the Omer beginning on the second night of Passover (Tuesday, April 23). Read Rabbi's blog post on How to Count the Omer. Every day for forty-nine days, I will post about the permutation of the Omer count and its corresponding Divine elements / emanations of G!d that we can reach towards / embody for the day. Here’s her post from the beginning of the Omer last year, “Enveloped in Grace.”