The word "seder" means order and it refers to these building blocks of the ritual.

Fires of hell.

When we embrace with one hand but push away with the other, it's the push that remains in lasting memory.

Close encounters of the fourth kind.

The lack of chronological order in Bamidbar allows expressions of God's love for Israel to precede the trials and tribulations of desert wandering.

What if the central narrative of the Jewish people had been different?

The surfer and the mikveh.

Making it relevant today.

April 3, 2015, is Tzom Bechorot, Fast of the Firstborn when first-born Jews fast before the first seder of Passover. This day also ...

The notion that humans are merely stewards of wealth, not its owner, can play into the hands of the greedy.