Celebration 114 20Th Le Café Chabad

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Issue 139 Nissan 5776 April 2016 Celebration 114 20th Le Café Chabad The evening of song and Spier, a member of the Youth Opera dance, featuring singing sensation of El Paso delighted the audience Esther Freeman, was attended with a solo of “Oseh Shalom by close to 100 women. The Bimromav” and later joined Esther annual tradition entered a third on stage for an impromptu duet. decade of celebrating the unique Special thanks to our Patrons: role of women in Judaism. As Suzanne Azoulay, Mira Goldstein, a tribute to Rebbetzin Chaya Linda Holzer, Yocheved Mushka Scheerson, wife of the Kimmelman, Wendy Lansky, Lubavitcher Rebbe, the event is Rachelle Nedow, Leticia Neiman, scheduled to coincide with her Rachel Oshry, Nancy Rothschild birthday on the 25th of Adar. and Meralee Schlusselberg. Esther inspired the delighted Sponsors: Ilisa Cappell, Helen crowd with her pleasant voice and Goldberg, Marcie Leff, Cindy beautiful songs, peppered with Metrikin, Lisa Rosenbaum, Miriam personal anecdotes and Chassidic Rosenbaum, Susy Rothschild, Martha lessons. Eight-year-old Sophie Schlusselberg and Pollie Toren.

On Nissan 11 – April 19 the leading a spiritual awakening that Jewish world will celebrate the continues to be felt today. 114th birthday of the Lubavitcher Throughout his lifetime, the Rebbe. The Rebbe was born at the Rebbe marked his birthday by dawn of the century in Nikolaev, redoubling his efforts to reach Russia, to the renowned kabbalist, out to Jews in every corner of the talmudic scholar and leader Rabbi world. Eschewing the very notion Levi Yitzchak Schneerson and his of retirement or “taking it easy”, wife Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson. each year the Rebbe would increase The Rebbe is considered one his programs and daily workload. If of the most influential religious G-d grants someone another year, it personalities of modern times. is in order to accomplish more. More than any other individual, the In 1972, during the celebration of Rebbe was responsible for stirring his 70th birthday, he requested of his the conscience of world Jewry, followers and admirers to establish Continued on page 3

Experience. Exodus. Celebrate The Seder In Style Relive the exodus, discover the eternal meaning of the Haggadah, and enjoy a community Seder complete with hand-baked Shmurah Matzah, wine, and a wonderful dinner spiced with unique traditional customs. Seder will be conducted in Hebrew and English.

Friday, April 22 | 7:30pm Chabad Lubavitch - 6615 Westwind Drive Couvert: Adult - $40 | Child (under 10 years) - $18 RSVP: 915-584-8218 | [email protected]

Your Passover Guide Thursday, April 21 - Saturday, April 30 Pages 8-11 Page 2 THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — NISSAN 5776 / APRIL 2016 From Our Mail Box Exodus changed this forever. Collectively, the Jewish nation is Dear Rabbi and Mrs. Greenberg Rabbi, I just wanted to thank eternally free. We are empowered and family, you for the Purim visit and the with the knowledge that even exile Many thanks for the beautiful good things you brought in the has a purpose and confidant that the Shalach Manot gift our family Purim bag. That was so wonderful end will surely come. On a personal received from you. Everyone, and thoughtful of you. I loved level, we have been granted the especially our grandchildren, your costume. S.W. ability to transcend challenges and enjoyed opening each drawer to hardships by realizing that they are sample the delicious treats inside. Rabbi Levi, stepping stones to greater heights. Your thoughtfulness is much Had a little relapse - your words [during your visit at the t the Seder, celebrating freedom Recently, a Jew in Israel was stabbed appreciated. hospital] were most generous and is not merely encouraged to by a terrorist and as a result of R. & S.L. and Family appreciated. M.R. commemorate our Exodus from the medical tests in the hospital a Egypt – it is obligational. There is no malignant tumor was discovered and alternative. Every Jew is duty-bound immediately neutralized. to eat matzah, drink four glasses of Dr. Viktor Frankl, a holocaust wine and prepare a festive meal. Even survivor, in his bestseller Man’s poverty is no excuse – on Seder night Search for Meaning, asserts that Baby Girl we are all royalty. survival in the concentration camps These mitzvoth – icons of our depended on faith in G-d. Otherwise, Nechama Leah freedom - were observed by our one would surely succumb to the Proud Parents people during the most trying periods terrifying reality. The Haggadah Rabbi Levi and Shainy Greenberg in our history, when the reality was states that had G-d had not redeemed Proud Grandparents very different than what is expressed us on that fateful night, we would still Rabbi Yisrael and Chana Greenberg by the wine and matzah. Even in be slaves to Pharoah today. We would be susceptible to the slave mentality concentration camps, soviet gulags Shoshana Esther and worse, Jews made many sacrifices – deprived of the courage to march to have a seder. What can be the value forward. Proud Parents of going through the motions if the At the seder table be mindful that Adam and Jordana Farber feeling and reality of freedom is non- on Pesach we received the greatest Proud Grandparents existent? gift of all. As a community and in Hank and Susy Rothschild When generations of Israelites were our personal lives, the message of enslaved by ancient Egypt their morale true freedom resonates even in the Bar Mitzvah was on the verge of collapse. Despite toughest moments. Be aware that the assurances of Jacob and Joseph imbedded in the negativity there is Drew Frank that redemption would certainly purpose and ultimately a positive Proud Parents arrive, it was difficult to see the light outcome. Adam and Dana Frank at the end of the tunnel. When Moses Best wishes for a kosher and Proud Grandparents the redeemer finally appeared on the joyous Pesach. Jerry and Stanlee Rubin scene, many were too disillusioned to Rabbi Yisrael Greenberg dare to hope. Wedding Rabbi Chaim Meir and Chaya Greenberg Proud Parents Twelfth Annual Raffle Rabbi Yisrael and Chana Greenberg Rabbi Yossi and Maryashi Groner - Charlotte, NC Mazel Tov to our winner! AJ and Libbe Mandelbaum Grand Prize Proud Parents Flights for Two to Israel Enoch and Yocheved Kimmelman Dr. David Sidransky Special Birthdays Louis and Miriam Rosenbaum Thank you to everyone for participating in the raffle. We appreciate your support and look forward to working together Purchase your very own to build a vibrant Jewish tomorrow. Shmurah Matzah 1lb – $30.00 Thank you Dr. Sidransky for gifting the prize money to Chabad. — Call 584-8218 —

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Celebration 114 continued from front page 70 new institutions in honor of the holiday of Passover by handing out momentous milestone. special handmade matzah and invite In celebration of this day world people to Seders. Save The Date leaders would send letters of Thousands of visitors are also congratulation and proclamations expected throughout the day at the annually. In 1978 the tradition of Rebbe’s resting place in Cambria Education Day U.S.A. was initiated. Heights, N.Y. A visitors’ center Every year since, the acting president is open 24 hours a day, providing Celebrate Jewish Unity & Pride has designated the anniversary of guests with prayer books, head the Rebbe’s birth as a day dedicated coverings, non-leather shoes and to educational awareness. snacks, as many refrain from eating This year as well, Jews all over all day in preparation for their visit. Lag B'Omer BBQ the globe will mark the day by The Rebbe once expressed his increasing their efforts in promoting desired birthday gift: To increase the Rebbe’s message of adding in in Torah study, the performance of goodness and kindness. In many mitzvoth and charity. This is the best Thursday, May 26 - 5:30pm metropolitan locations, mobile way to celebrate this momentous synagogues known as Mitzvah occasion. Tanks will traverse the streets to draw To learn more about the Rebbe attention to the fast-approaching please visit www.TheRebbe.org A Taste of Things to Come - Seudat Moshiach The Last Day of Pesach - Shabbat, April 30 at 7:00 p.m.

an era of G-dly enlightenment - an The Baal Shem Tov, founder of On the last day of Passover, the Join us at Chabad Lubavitch famous prophecy of Isaiah (10:32- eternal age of peace and harmony Chassidism, instituted the custom 12:6) is read after the Torah reading. among all the nations of the world. of eating a special third meal on the Shabbat, April 30 His prophecy describes the final Isaiah states: “They shall do no last day of Passover. At this meal, for the Feast of Moshiach. redemption of the Jewish people evil nor shall they destroy … For the we eat Matzah and drink four cups through the Moshiach (Messiah). earth will be full of the knowledge of wine. It is called the “Feast of Mincha - 6:45 pm Moshiach will bring about of G-d … You will say on that day, Moshiach.” On that day, the Baal Followed by an inspiring meal the return of our people to our ‘Praise G-d, proclaim his name Shem Tov says, one can feel the heritage, rebuild the Holy Temple in … for G-d has done wondrous approach of Moshiach. and Chassidic gathering. Jerusalem, and ultimately usher in things.’” Page 4 THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — NISSAN 5776 / APRIL 2016 From the Rabbis’ Blog www.chabadelpaso.com/blog AAA and they assured me assis- in a body shop and to him the job is: Yes! Whereas Jeff’s fond mem- tance was on the way. A few min- was a standard procedure. Chanc- ories of that roadside encounter utes later a car pulled up behind es are that he will forget about the may fade over time, the effect of mine and a fellow approached and ten-minute stop in a short time, each individual mitzvah is eternal. offered to help in rapid Spanish. but Jeff will remember it warmly In our universe it may seem like a Showing him my AAA card I tried for a long while. Although such fleeting moment, but when we re- to determine if he was from AAA. kind gestures occur fairly often, it cite a blessing on the Lulav, give Ignoring the card, he pulled out made a deep impression on Jeff. a coin to charity or light Shabbat a few tools from his car, popped None of his close friends and as- candles we are fulfilling G-d’s de- off my shattered tire, replaced sociates were able to assist him sire – and G-d transcends time. it with the spare like a pro and and this mentch of a human being Think about it! Currently, none in less than ten minutes sped off did him a supreme favor. of the great Jewish leaders and down the freeway. At that point As we wrapped Tefillin it saints of the Biblical and Talmu- I realized that there was no con- dawned on me that this is one of dic eras can arouse such joy by Rabbi Levi Greenberg nection to AAA and he had simply the most empowering ideas artic- G-d. Only living mortals on plan- stopped to help a complete strang- ulated in Chassidus for over two et earth are capable of it. Even if The Precious Deed er in need.” centuries. At times we may expe- the language of the blessings may “I have a story to share with By now Jeff was in tears. “I rience spiritual fatigue and won- be foreign and the environment of you, Rabbi.” As I entered Jeff’s wish I had paid him. Such ran- der if the mitzvah observed out the synagogue strange, the action office he seemed visibly shaken. I dom kindness, such selflessness... of route – lacking enthusiasm and is what truly counts. It may seem know him as a calm and collected I know this is a blessing from devotion – has any value? For that random and out of context, but ev- individual but today I could tell Above so I decided to be sure to matter, is it worth investing dis- ery mitzvah is elevated to a realm something unusual had occurred. see you today to wrap Tefillin and proportionate resources of time, of infinitude and G-d will cherish “This afternoon as I was driv- say a prayer.” energy and money to encourage a and be delighted by it for eternity. ing on the freeway my tire had a While the actions of Jeff’s anon- single Jew to do a single mitzvah, We have been granted the in- blowout. By the time I managed ymous auto repairman are impres- when the expectations of his or sight to appreciate the divine to pull over to the shoulder the sive and quite noble, I was moved her continued growth in commit- preciousness and everlasting rele- tire was a total wreck and I could by Jeff’s reaction to the ordeal. ment to Judaism is unclear? vance of even an isolated random not manage to pop it off. I called Possibly this fine fellow works The answer to both questions mitzvah.

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Shabbat Shacharit 9:30 am • Followed by A Sit Down Kiddush • Mincha will follow the Kiddush Children’s Program 11:00am • Maariv, Havdalah and film after Shabbat Chabad is always hosting new classes and programs. To receive updates, e-mail [email protected] or visit us online at chabadelpaso.com THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — NISSAN 5776 / APRIL 2016 Page 5 Seeing The Blind By Boruch Shlomo Cunin As the sun was about to set, my matzah, and gotten home in time tried to remember the blessings in blind, their doctor recommended train broke down in the middle for our Seder. But life is seldom the proper order, but it was difficult an abortion. The man was very of the Bronx and I had to walk. ideal. Eventually, I found the without a Haggadah. We ate the depressed and didn’t know what Heading in the general direction address, which turned out to be a matzah and used water and paper to do. So he asked this rabbi, who of Pelham Parkway, I kept asking housing project. I knocked on the cups to recall the four cups of wine. suggested that he write a letter to people where the address was. I door and out came a man with no I tried to think what the Rebbe the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe remember one helpful soul who shirt, tattoos and a potbelly. would do if he was here. I looked wrote back, saying that they should told me, “Son, you’ve got a long “What is it?” he snapped. In the at the little girls and at their mother, have faith in G-d and have the way to go!” Bronx, it’s proper etiquette to snap about to have another child, and child. Earlier that afternoon, a when greeting someone. “Excuse began to tell them some things I As I was about to leave, the group of students in Brooklyn me, are you Mr. So-and-so?” I had learned from the Rebbe. man said, “You know, my wife had finished baking the last of asked. “Yeah,” he said. I noticed I told them that we have to have and I weren’t sure about this. How the Passover matzah. It was 1958, the loaf of rye bread sitting on the faith. On this night, G-d liberated are we supposed to have faith? and the Lubavitcher Rebbe had table, definitely not a traditional our ancestors from slavery, and He How are we supposed to forget a custom of giving hand-baked Seder food. I said, “The Rebbe sent liberates us, too. The husband and what is and have hope? We didn’t matzah to people as a spiritual gift me.” wife seemed to hang on every word, think it was possible. But tonight, before Passover. He would stand for “The Rebbe? Oh, please come like they were getting nourishment hearing about faith and how G-d hours, greeting people and handing in,” he said. The tiny kitchen just by listening. I told them that on gives us the strength to overcome them matzah. The Zohar says contained only a small table, some Passover, we journey through our our personal Egypt, well, now we matzah is the “bread of faith,” and chairs and a hot plate. I didn’t personal Egypt to freedom, and that understand.” simply eating it nourishes the soul. understand what I was doing there, G-d doesn’t put on our shoulders Their son was born fully sighted. The Rebbe would give matzah delivering matzah to a family that more than we can carry. Once you Over time, I lost track of this first to the people who had to travel wasn’t celebrating Passover. Then I know that, and believe it, you’re family, but years later I learned far, because riding in a car or subway thought, perhaps that’s exactly why already liberated. We sang songs that the daughters had married and is not permitted on Shabbat and I was there. with the children and time flew. that each had several children, all Jewish holidays. I was 16 and had I asked the man if he would like At 1:00 a.m., the woman put the sighted. to get home to 167th and Jerome to have a Seder. He agreed and girls to bed and it was time for me to To really describe the Rebbe’s Avenue in the Bronx, which was called for his wife to come in. She leave, but I had to ask the man how love for hundreds of thousands of pretty far away. When I approached entered, visibly pregnant, with two he knew the Rebbe. It turned out he Jews and non-Jews all over the the Rebbe, he handed me matzah beautiful little girls, maybe five or was a tanner and was acquainted world would be impossible. The and asked if I could deliver some to six years old, trailing behind. Both with a rabbi who worked at another best I could do is to write about a a certain family. girls were blind. section of the meat plant. Several poor family in the Bronx, living Ideally, I would have taken a We cleared off the table. I put months ago, his wife had become in a housing project for the blind. taxi from the subway station, asked a hat on the man’s head and said, pregnant. Since they had a disease And how the Rebbe had faith hand- the driver to wait, delivered the “Okay, we’re having a Seder!” I that caused their children to be born delivered to their door.

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Learning the Purim story at Chabad Hebrew School. Delivering Mishloach Manot (Purim gifts) at The Monte Vista. Page 8 THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — NISSAN 5776 / APRIL 2016 Your PASSOVER Guide • 13 - 22 Nissan Friday, April 22, 2016 device, called an eruv tavshilin, which allows What Is Chametz? one to cook food on a holiday day on a pre- Before You Passover: It is time to clean Life in the Fast Lane – When G-d slew the existing flame for use on a Shabbat that im- your house and create a chametz free zone. firstborn sons of Egypt, he spared the Jewish mediately follows it. All chametz should be placed and locked in a firstborns. This year (5776/2016) the Last Days of closet for the eight days of Passover. In commemoration and thanks, firstborn Passover occur on Friday and Shabbat, so Chametz is any foods that are forbidden on sons fast on this day. It is said, “Joy breaks an eruv tavshilin is made on Thursdays day Passover: any leavened products containing all boundaries.” Since the joy of a mitzvah— afternoon before the holiday candles are wheat, barley, oats, rye or spelt. such as the completion of studying a Talmudic kindled. This eruv consists of two matzahs, Clear your home of all chametz: Remember tractate—transcends the obligation to fast, on and a cooked food, such as meat, fish, or an to empty pockets, vacuum cleaner bags, and to this day many firstborn sons break their fast unpeeled hard-boiled egg. replace pet foods for the week. You will need early with a siyum (mitzvah meal of joy) by Take the food items and say: to use a separate set of dishes for Passover. completing the study of a tractate on this day. Blessed are you, L-rd our G-d, king of the Gather all your chametz dishes and store them You’re Fired – After having cleaned your universe, who has sanctified us with his in a closet during Passover. house and sold your chametz, the ten pieces commandments, and commanded us Hit the Aisles – Any processed food you eat of chametz found during the formal search concerning the mitzvah of eruv. on Passover (and year-round) needs kosher are burned in the morning. When burning the Through this [eruv] it shall be permissible supervision. chametz say: “All leaven or anything leavened for us to bake, cook, put away a dish [to Today, that’s no big deal—the supermarket which is in my possession, which I have preserve its heat], kindle a light, prepare, aisles are loaded with “Kosher for Passover” neither seen nor removed, and about which I and do on the holiday all that is necessary products. Fruits, vegetables and most raw and am unaware, shall be considered nullified and for Shabbat -- for us and for all the Israelites unprocessed foods are kosher for Passover. ownerless as the dust of the earth.” who dwell in this city. (Consult with your Rabbi about using beans or All your pre-Passover chametz consumption The eruv is eaten on Shabbat. legumes). It is a good idea to plan to go healthy should be concluded as well, bringing your possession of chametz down to nil. Stop And On The Seventh Day – This is the day for the eight days and cook everything from when over 3,300 years ago the sea split and the scratch. For a complete guide to preparing your eating chametz at 10:51 am. Burn chametz before 11:58 am. Jewish people were officially free. Experience house for Passover, along with a storehouse of your own spiritual wake-up call tonight by knockout recipes, get your hands on “The Spice Prepare To Celebrate – To help build up an appetite for the Seder avoid eating any foods staying up until dawn, studying works of Divine and Spirit of Kosher for Passover Cooking” wisdom—the Torah. (LWO, 2003), available at most Jewish found of the seder plate, especially matzah. If bookstores. For other recipe ideas visit www. you’re a lover of bitter herbs or salt water, this Saturday, April 30, 2016 may be a tough day. passover.net. Feel free to call us at 584-8218 On a Positive Note – Without our forebears, with any questions. we not only wouldn’t have Passover, we wouldn’t Passover Begins be here. That’s why we remember our departed Chametz for Sale parents on the eighth day of Passover with the Friday Evening, Saturday Evening, special Yizkor prayer - synagogue memorial In addition to the prohibition of eating chametz April 22, 2016: April 23, 2016: service. on Passover, it is forbidden to own any chametz The First Seder The Second Seder during the eight days of Passover. Therefore, Encore! Encore! – As the day draws to a close, we temporarily sell our chametz to a non-Jew. Saturday Night, April 23, 2016 the world experiences an outpouring of Divine This is a legally binding sale (according to consciousness. Following the custom of the Baal Be Counted - Tonight we begin the counting both Jewish and civil law). Fill out and mail in Shem Tov, founder of Chassidism, Passover of the Omer, named for the Omer offering of new the enclosed form called “Mechirat Chametz” concludes with a “Feast of Moshiach.” This festive crops brought in the Temple on the second day (Sale of Chametz), a legal document that meal complete with matzah and, yes, four cups of of Passover. We count 49 days from Passover authorizes your Rabbi to transfer the ownership wine, begins before sunset. It is the perfect way until Shavuot in anticipation for the day when of your chametz to a non-Jew for the duration to spiritually take leave of Passover and open our we received the holy Torah at Mount Sinai. of Passover. The Rabbi will buy back your consciousness to the coming redemption. During the Omer count, we work on self chametz at the conclusion of Passover. See It’s All Over Now: Nightfall marks the end of growth in preparation for this monumental page 11. Passover. Wait about an hour after the holiday event. A person has 49 combined emotional ends to eat chametz to your heart’s content. This and spiritual traits. Each day of the Omer is a Thursday, April 21, 2016 will give your Rabbi enough time to buy back your propitious time to work on a particular aspect, Search Warrant – At nightfall (8:05pm) sold chametz. we formally search our homes for chametz. until our soul is fully primed to receive a spark of Tightly roll ten pieces of chametz in paper G-dliness on the 50th day, Shavuot. wrappings and hide them around your house. Monday, April 25 — Shmurah Matzah It is recommended to keep a list of your hiding Shmurah means watched. Shmurah is an apt places in case you can’t find one of the ten Thursday, April 28, 2016 description of this matzah. The flour and water pieces. Traditionally, a lit candle is used to help The Middle Ground – The four days between ingredients are watched from the moment of with the search. A spoon (shovel) and feather the first two and last two holy days of Passover harvesting and drawing. (broom) are used to help scoop the ten hidden are called Chol Hamoed. The laws of only eating The day chosen for the harvesting of the wheat pieces of chametz into a paper bag. Before food that is Kosher for Passover (chametz free) is a clear, dry day. The moment it is harvested beginning the search, say this blessing: apply. During these four days, the only other the wheat is inspected to ensure that there is Bo-ruch A-toh Ado-noi difference from your normal life is like your absolutely no moisture. From then, careful watch E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ho-olom mother keeps telling you, “You shouldn’t work so is kept on the grains as they are transported to A-sher Ki-de-sha-nu Be-mitz-vo-sov hard.” Keep your spirits up: it’s a custom to drink the mill. The mill is meticulously inspected to Ve-tzi-vo-nu Al Bee-ur Cho-metz. a glass of wine every day of Passover. ensure that each piece of equipment that will be “Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of used in the making of the matzah is absolutely the universe, who has sanctified us by His Thursday, April 28, 2016 clean and dry. The flour is then transported to commandments, and has commanded us Eruv Tavshilin - It is forbidden on a holi- the bakery under strict supervision. concerning the removal of chametz”. day to do any act in preparation for the fol- The water, too, is carefully secluded to prevent After the search, place the ten pieces of lowing day, even if the following day is Shab- any contact with wheat or other grains. The chametz in a conspicuous spot until morning. bat. However, the sages created a halachic water is drawn the night before the baking, and THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — NISSAN 5776 / APRIL 2016 Page 9 5776 • April 21 - April 30, 2016 eat for a while. The saltwater represents the tears of our people, beginning with our slavery in Egypt. The Passover Seder Plate In order to free ourselves from our personal Egypt, we taste harshness again. This harshness gives The Seder Plate (Ka’arah) includes most of the 2) “Beitzah” - a hard-boiled egg. It represents us the humility necessary for freedom. ingredients that go into the making of the Seder. the festival offering. Any other night, we would be getting to the meal Its three matazahs and the six other items are 3) “Maror” - grated horseradish (just the now. But tonight we do things differently to spark arranged in a formation horseradish -- not the the interest of children and to provoke them to ask dictated by their red stuff that has vinegar mystical significance and beets added) and/ questions. If they ask, “Hey! Aren’t we supposed to and relationship vis-a- or romaine lettuce. This eat real food now?”—you know you’re doing things vis each other. is the bitter herbs. right. Here’s how to set up 4) “Charoset” - a paste The child is the most important participant at the your Ka’arah: made of apples, pears, Seder. In fact, the entire Seder with all its customs On a large plate, nuts and wine. You will revolves around children. The essential mitzvah of tray or cloth, place dip the bitter herbs into the Seder is to “tell the story to your child.” three whole matzahs, the Charoset. each one piled on top 5) “Karpas” - a piece But more than children learn from us, we learn of the other. It’s best to of an onion or potato. from children. Tonight, we enter the mind and heart use round, hand-baked 6) “Chazeret” -- more of a child. We awaken our child within, the place shmurah matzah. bitter herbs. This is used that is innocent and able to grow, to be amazed, Cover the matzahs in the matzah-maror to sense awe. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch with a cloth or tray. sandwich once said, “If you want to know what it is like to see Above the covering, You will also need with the eyes of a prophet, look at the world the position the following six items as pictured above a wine cup or goblet for each participant at the right: Seder. And, of course, plenty of wine: enough to way you did as a child.” 1) “Zeroa” - a roasted chicken bone with most of fill four cups per person. its meat removed. This represents the Passover Prepare a dish of salt water in which to dip the Step 4 YACHATZ (Breaking the matzah) offering. It is not eaten during the Seder. Karpas. Take the middle matzah from your Seder Plate and break it into two. Put the smaller piece back between is kept pure until the moment it is mixed with yourself from those things that inhibit your the two complete matzahs. the flour to bake the shmurah matzah. soul, you can achieve the second meaning of This piece is the “poor In the bakery itself shmurah matzot are made “kadesh”—to “sanctify” our world. The first two man’s bread” over which we under strict supervision to avoid any possibility steps of the Seder, Kadesh (separate/sanctify) will recount the story of our of leavening during the baking process. and Urchatz (purify) describe what we set out to Exodus. Shmurah matzot are round and kneaded and accomplish this night: to pass over the limitations Break the larger piece shaped by hand. In these two ways they are of our world in order to elevate it. into five and wrap the pieces in a cloth. Hide the package until the end of the Seder when it will be similar to the matzot that were baked by the Step 2 URCHATZ (Washing hands) Israelites as they left Egypt. It is thus fitting to eaten as the Afikoman. Some have the tradition For this step, you could bring a basin and that children hide the Afikoman and the adults use shmurah matzah on each of the two Seder towel to the table or you can head to the kitchen have to find it at the end of the meal. In other nights for the matzot of the Seder plate. sink. Fill a cup with water. Pour the water over traditions, the adults hide it and the children must your right hand three times, then over your Your 15-Step “Soulful left hand three times. That’s how the Kohanim find it. Either way, it keeps the kids in suspense. (priests) washed when they entered the Holy Why is there so much broken in this world? Why Seder” Companion Temple in Jerusalem. did the Creator make a world where hearts break, lives shatter, beauty crumbles? A whole vessel can Step 1 KADESH (A toast to freedom) (When we wash our hands again before only contain its measure, while a broken one can It’s been a busy week and a busy year. The eating matzah, we’ll recite a blessing. But not hold the Infinite. The broken matzah is called the first step of the Seder is now.) to forget the noise and Our hands are the instruments that allow the “poor man’s bread.” His brokenness allows him leave it behind. Tonight mind to interact with our environment. They to open his soul and escape his Egypt. When we we enter a timeless reflect our mental state, and act according to realize that we are just a fragment—that we need space, where we our emotions: love, fear, compassion, the urge the others around us, that so much of ourselves is experience the Exodus to win, to be appreciated, to express ourselves. missing—then miracles can begin. together with Moses and Too often, our psyche is fragmented and all our ancestors—with compartmentalized—the mind sees one way, Step 5 MAGGID (Retelling) generations of rejoicing the heart feels another—and our interaction The Seder Plate is moved aside and the and tears, of celebration and wisdom—by doing with the world is disoriented. second cup of wine is just what we will do tonight. Water symbolizes wisdom. Flowing filled. The story of our Fill your cup with wine (or grape juice). That’s downward from on high, everything in its stream Exodus is now retold. the first of four cups you’ll enjoy at tonight’s is affected by its pure and simple essence. We Children ask the Four Seder. Make sure your cup holds at least 3-1/2 pour water over our hands so that our heart and Questions, found in your ounces. Everyone stands and recites Kiddush emotions may be touched by wisdom, and from Haggadah. (Of course, together. It’s all there in your Haggadah. Now there, shape our interaction with the world. they can always ask more.) No children at your get ready for some serious relaxing—recline Seder? Have an adult ask. There’s just you? on a cushion to your left side while you drink. Step 3 KARPAS (The appetizer) You be the child and G-d, the Father. Say the (Remember the good old days, when kings After washing our blessing and drink the second cup at the end of would recline on couches while sampling wines? hands in the previous this step. That’s what we emulate by reclining. We are not step, we now dip a The experience of leaving Egypt left such an just free; we are our own masters.) vegetable (for example, indelible mark on our soul that we never stop Every journey begins with a separation. You’ve potato, onion or parsley) doing it. The Exodus is not simply an event that got to leave somewhere to get somewhere else. into saltwater. Say the happened to us. It is found in the life of each one The Hebrew word “kadesh” means “separation,” blessing for eating of us, occurring again and again in our wrestling which is the first step towards freedom. It also vegetables, and munch match with the world and in our struggle with our means to “sanctify.” Once you’ve separated good; you’re not going to own selves. To retell the story is to express our continued on page 10 ... Page 10 THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — NISSAN 5776 / APRIL 2016

... Passover Guide continued from page 9 essential self; to come face to face with who we eating bitter herbs.” Tonight, we have that ability. But only after really are. We can never get used journeying through the steps of the Seder. to Egypt, thinking, “They Then, when we have connected every facet of Step 6 RACHTZAH (Washing hands) are our masters, we are ourselves with the Divine, that’s when that ability We now prepare ourselves to eat matzah their slaves, and that’s the comes to us. Whether we sense it or not, the by again washing our hands. Pour some water way it is.” Being stopped matzah we eat now—the matzah of tzafun— over your right hand three times, then over from true self-expression reaches deep into our essence, empowering us your left hand three times. Say the appropriate must remain something we to transform our very being. blessing and dry your hands. feel bitter about, something that is not right and In Judaism, eating can be a spiritual needs to change. Step 13 BAIRACH (Grace after meal) experience. Since the destruction of the Holy If we get used to Egypt, it’s very hard to The third cup is now filled. Once you’ve said Temple, the table upon which we eat is likened escape. In fact, many Jews said, “Egypt is our grace after the meal and the appropriate blessing to the Altar. We wash our hands before eating home. How can we leave?” and they died there. for wine, drink this cup while leaning to your left. to prepare ourselves for an experience in which When Moses announced the time had come, Now fill a special cup of wine, the Cupof we can encounter G-dliness. Spiritual freedom it was only those who felt bitterness that had Elijah, and set it in the middle of the table. You is not achieved by ignoring or suppressing the faith to leave. This is the sweetness that won’t drink this one—it’s for Elijah the Prophet, our human needs and desires, but rather by is connected with the bitter herbs: Bitterness who comes to announce the imminent arrival of acknowledging and fulfilling them in a holy way. without faith is self-destructive, but mixed Moshiach. Then fill your fourth (and final) cup, together, it can become the springboard to from which you will drink a little later. Step 7 MOTZIE (Thanking G-d for bread) freedom. Open the front door of your home to welcome Raise the three matzahs together—the top Elijah and recite the prayer, “Pour out Your wrath one, the broken middle one and the bottom one— Step 10 KORECH (Sandwich) . . . “ from the Haggadah. Watch Elijah enter. and say the blessing found in your Haggadah: Take two pieces of matzah, (Can’t see him? Maybe you had too much wine.) “. . . Who brings forth bread out of the earth.” totalling at least an ounce Our Sages taught: Whatever G-d asks of Then return the bottom matzah to the Seder (using the bottom matzah). us, He also does Himself. Of course, there’s a Plate. Take an ounce of maror, dip difference. We do it in our little human world, We feel an affinity with the bread we eat: We it in charoset, then shake off while He does it on a grand cosmic plane. too are a miracle “out of the earth” and we share the charoset. Place the maror He asks us to open our doors, and tonight, a common journey. Bread begins as a seed between the matzah pieces He opens every spiritual door and gateway. buried beneath the ground. And then, and say: “So did Hillel in the time of the Holy Regardless of our past, tonight is our opportunity a miracle occurs—the seed decomposes and Temple . . .” Lean to the left while eating. to enter the highest of spiritual levels. loses its original form, then it comes alive, and Hillel understood the words of the Torah about begins to sprout and grow. As Spring arrives, it the Pesach lamb, “with matzah and bitter herbs Step 14 HALLEL (Praise) pushes its way above the earth to find the sun, you shall eat it,” in their literal sense. So he “Songs of Praise” and bears its fruit for the world. invented the sandwich. are now offered. We, too, began buried in Egypt, our identity all The world, when viewed from within It’s all there in your but lost. But that furnace of oppression became Egypt, looks to be a mess of fragments. It’s a Haggadah. Sing for us a firing kiln, the ground from which we “Passoverly Challenged” perspective—plain them to your heart’s grew to become a nation. In our liberation, we materialism. Mitzvahs appear to be a mishmash content. At the end, bring our fruits of freedom to the world. of dos and don’ts; the Jewish people are a say a blessing and collection of irreconcilable individuals; daily life drink the fourth and Step 8 MATZAH (Bless the matzah) is a cacophony of hassles. final cup while leaning to the left. Recite the blessing on the top and (broken) But once we escape materialism’s gravitational Does G-d need us to praise Him? It is we middle matzah: “. . . Who pull, we can look back and see a new who need to. When we praise G-d, we become commanded us concerning perspective. Mitzvahs are multiple expressions more conscious of His presence. We open the eating matzah.” of a single spiritual path; Jews are multiple faces Break off a piece from each of a single soul; the elements of tonight’s journey channels through which we can perceive His of these two matzahs for harmonize together as a symphony playing a kindness. This is also mirrored in the human yourself and for each of those delicate melody. The bitter and sweet fragments sphere: When you compliment someone as sitting at your table. Everyone of life wrap together in a single package. “kind” or “fair,” you are revealing those qualities. eats at least two ounces (about two thirds of a matzah). To do this, you may need an auxiliary Step 11 SHULCHAN ORECH (Festive meal) Step 15 NIRTZAH (Acceptance) reserve of matzah. Lean to the left while you It is the custom of The steps of the Seder have been integrated munch. some to begin the meal into our consciousness and accepted. The Zohar calls matzah “food of mehemnuta.” with eating the egg on Now we pause, take a deep breath, and “Mehemnuta” is Aramaic for “faith” but it means a the Seder Plate, dipped reflect on our experience: We examined our lot more than “I believe.” Faith often is something in saltwater. The egg personal challenges through the slavery of people claim when they don’t care to think too symbolizes the cycle of our ancestors, and we achieved a personal much. “Mehemnuta” means reaching the place life and is also a sign of freedom by reliving the Exodus. We completed where your soul and the Infinite are One. It’s a mourning. At every festive occasion, we mourn our part in good faith; the rest is up to you- place that nothing can describe. There are no the destruction of Jerusalem. know-Who. words. No doubts, no uncertainty, no confusion. Dinner is served. The last song of the Seder echoes our hope Nothing but a magnificent Oneness before and that of our ancestors that G-d complete our which nothing else exists and within which the Step 12 TZAFUN (Out of hiding) broken world, and that His promise for a world challenges of life withdraw. At the conclusion of the Passover meal, the of peace and wisdom become a reality. “Nation By eating matzah, we digest and internalize Afikoman (which had been in hiding) is returned. shall not lift up sword against nation, nor study “mehemnuta” and become one with the One. Everyone eats two-thirds of a matzah, after war anymore,” and the entire world will dwell “in which nothing else is consumed tonight, except a city built where all are united as one.” Step 9 MAROR (Bitter herbs) for the two remaining cups of wine. Maror is the bitter taste of our slavery in There is the soul, and then there is the essence Next Year in Jerusalem! Egypt. Dip at least one ounce of bitter herbs of the soul. If the soul is energy, then that essence Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi did not (horseradish, romaine lettuce or both) in is its generator. The Kabbalah teaches that this include the passage “The order of Pesach is charoset, which recalls the mortar of our essence remains elusive. It is called “tzafun,” concluded” in his Haggadah, for indeed, the enslavement, then shake off the charoset. It’s meaning hidden, locked away and out of reach. Seder never concludes. Its message endures a delicate balance: You want bitter herbs, but We can be inspired, we can meditate, we can throughout the year. A Jew leaves Egypt every you want to sweeten the bitterness. Say the pray. But to touch this essence—to access our day by transcending his limitations, reaching blessing: “. . . Who commanded us concerning essential self—takes a power from Beyond. ever higher levels of holiness. THE EL PASO CHABAD TIMES — NISSAN 5776 / APRIL 2016 Page 11 The Pesach Calendar • Nissan 13-22, 5776 • April 21 - April 30, 2016 First Days of Pesach Last Days of Pesach Thursday, April 21 Formal Search for the Chometz...... 8:05pm Thursday, April 28 Candle Lighting Time...... 7:27pm Friday, Shacharit-Followed by Siyum for the Fast of Blessing #3 April 22 the First Born...... 7:00am Mincha...... 7:15pm Stop eating Chometz before...... 10:51am Eiruv Tavshilin (see page 8) Destroy Chometz before...... 11:58am Candle lighting...... 7:22pm Friday, April 29 Shacharit...... 9:30am Blessing #1 and #2 Mincha...... 7:15pm Mincha...... 7:15pm Candle Lighting Time at...... 7:27pm 1st Seder (from a pre existent flame) Chabad Community Seder...... 7:30pm Blessing #1

Saturday, Shacharit...... 9:30am Saturday, April 30 Shacharit...... 9:30am April 23 Mincha...... 7:15pm Yizkor...... 11:00am Candle Lighting Time after...... 8:19pm Mincha...... 6:45pm (from a pre existent flame) Seudas Moshiach...... 7:00pm Blessings #3 and #2 Holiday Ends after...... 8:25pm

Sunday, Shacharit...... 9:30am April 24 Mincha...... 7:15pm Holiday ends...... 8:20pm Candle Lighting Blessings 1) BO-RUCH A-TOH ADO-NOI E-LO-HEI-NU 2) BO-RUCH A-TOH ADO-NOI E-LO-HEI-NU 3) BO-RUCH A-TOH ADO-NOI E-LO-HEI-NU ME-LECH ME-LECH HO-LOM, A-SHER KI-DE-SHA-NU, ME-LECH HO-LOM, SHE-HEH-CHE-YOH-NU, HO-LOM, A-SHER KI-DE-SHA-NU, BE-MITZ-VO-SOV BE-MITZ-VO-SOV VE-TZI-VO-NU LE-HAD-LIK VI-KIYE-MO-NU VE-HE-GE-O-NU LEZ-MAN VE-TZI-VO-NU LE-HAD-LIK NER SHEL YOM-TOV. NER SHEL SHABBOS VE-SHEL YOM-TOV. HA-ZEH. Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the universe, who universe, who has sanctified us with His com- universe, who has granted us life, sustained has sanctified us with His commandments, and commandments, and commanded us to kindle the us, and enabled us to reach this occasion. manded us to kindle the Yom Tov light. light of Shabbat and of Yom Tov.

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