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Throughout his lifetime, the Rebbe marked his birth- day by redoubling his efforts to reach out to in ev- ery corner of the world. Eschewing the very notion of re- tirement or “taking it easy”, each year the Rebbe would 21st Annual Le Café Chabad increase his programs and daily workload. If G-d grants someone another year, it is in order to accomplish more. In 1972, during the celebration of his 70th birthday, Celebrating the Jewish Woman he requested of his followers and admirers to establish 70 new institutions in honor of the momentous milestone. In celebration of this day world leaders would send Cooking Demonstration and Dinner letters of congratulation and proclamations annually. In Learn all about preparing easy, tasty and 1978 the tradition of Education Day U.S.A. was initiated. Every year since, the acting president has designated the healthy recipes and enjoy a full course dinner. anniversary of the Rebbe’s birth as a day dedicated to edu- The Le Café Chabad is proud to feature the cational awareness. legendary Lévana Kirschenbaum, formerly the This year as well, Jews all over the globe will mark the co-owner of Levana’s Restaurant on Manhattan’s day by increasing their efforts in promoting the Rebbe’s Upper West Side a pioneer in Kosher Upscale message of adding in goodness and kindness. In many Dining. She is a master cooking instructor and metropolitan locations, mobile synagogues known as cookbook author and gives cooking demos across Tanks will traverse the streets to draw attention the country. 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To sponsor or to RSVP please contact Chana: To learn more about the Rebbe please visit www.TheRebbe.org Phone: (915) 241-5711 Email: [email protected] Your Passover Guide April 9 - 18 Pages 8 - 11 Page 2 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Nissan 5777 | April 2017 From Our Mail Box a few days he would have full control of his life. Where to Thank you so much for my Dear Rabbi, Thank you work, what to eat and when to first candle stick holder and very much for coming over sleep. candles for Shabbos and my yesterday and the tefillin and Upon his release, he excitedly Aleph Bet Cards. I love them Megillah Esther. Your presence called me to share the good so much. I can’t wait to light is always welcome and I hope news. This man experienced the tonight and play with my cards. that I will see you many more true meaning of redemption. Love, L. times in the future! Jewish law does not suggest B. that every Jew need to submit themselves to such a traumatic experience in order to properly observe Passover. Rather the Seder menu includes a very crucial ingredient on the menu. Baby Girl assover is the festival of our While the wine, Matzah and redemption. We gather chicken soup are welcome Rivkah together with friends and family components of the Seder, it is Proud Parents to celebrate our liberty at the a mitzvah to eat (bitter Rabbi Chaim Meir and Chaya Greenberg Proud Grandparents Seder table. There are various herbs) as well. Tasting bitterness Rabbi Yisrael and Chana Greenberg traditions and symbolic foods allows us to appreciate the to enable us to experience this liberty we are celebrating. We feeling. must also realize that whenever Bar Mitzvah As free people living in a we experience bitterness in Roei Arusi modern and free country, it is life, it is only so that we should Proud Parents difficult to relate to the idea of better appreciate the goodness Yinon and Nili Arusi redemption. Let alone to celebrate we receive and express our an event that occurred millennia gratitude to G-d accordingly. Special Birthday ago with the same intensity as Here in Jalapeño country those who experienced it. How know that sharpness and Mr. Herbert Ehrlich can one truly appreciate freedom bitterness can be an asset. As without ever lacking it in the we celebrate the Seder, let us past? concentrate on the positive For many years, I would visit results of any negativity we Jewish inmates in the federal may encounter. Thirteenth Annual Raffle prison in Anthony, NM. 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A Holiday Message from the Lubavitcher Rebbe Each one of us has a soul which is “an actual part of G-d.” This is the core of our being, our real “I.” But we find ourselves in Egypt, for there are forces, both external and internal, that prevent us from being in touch with this spiritual potential and giving it expression. The Seder night is a time when these forces do not have the power to hold us back. For Passover is “The Season of Our Freedom.” From the time of the Exodus - and indeed, from the beginning of time - this night was chosen as a night on which the potential is granted to express our G-dly core. In the Passover Haggadah, we Every year, at this time, within the say: “Even if we are all wise, all spiritual hierarchy of the world, men of understanding, and all there is “an exodus from Egypt.” Do a good deed today ... know the Torah, it is a mitzva All restrictions fall away and (commandment) for us to tell of transcendent G-dliness is revealed. the exodus from Egypt.” This This spiritual awakening filters quote indicates that the point of the down within our souls, prompting And help others do Seder is not merely an intellectual us to tap our spiritual core, express experience. For after all, if we are our unbounded G-dly potential, and wise and know the Torah, then we leave Egypt, i.e., to break through also know the story of the Exodus. any and all restraints. a good deed tomorrow! Instead, the intent is that the This experience should not Seder enables us to relive the remain an isolated spiritual peak. Exodus, to realize - as we say later Instead, Passover should initiate in the Haggadah - that “not only our a process of endless growth, ancestors [were] redeemed from empowering us to continuously Egypt, but [G-d] redeemed us as break through ever subtle levels of well.” Every Seder is an opportunity limitations and express our spiritual for each one of us to leave Egypt. potential at all times. What does it mean for us to leave This concept is reflected in the Remember Egypt, when many of us have never Lubavitch custom not to recite seen that part of the world? the passage “Chasal Siddur Mitzrayim - the Hebrew name Pesach” (“The Passover Seder is for Egypt - shares a connection concluded”) which others say at Chabad Lubavitch with the term meitzarim, meaning the end of the Seder. The intent of “boundaries” or “limitations.” the omission is to emphasize that Leaving Egypt means going beyond our Passover experience should those forces that hold us back and be ongoing. Throughout the year, of El Paso in your will. prevent us from expressing who we should look to the Seder as we really are. The idea of leaving the beginning of a pattern of new Egypt reminds us that, in a certain growth and spiritual expression. way, we are all slaves.

The evening of song and dance, featuring singing sensation Esther Freeman,S wasa attendedve by closeT toh e Date 100 women. The annual tradition entered a third decade of celebrating the unique role of women in Judaism.C Ase la etributebra tot eRebbetzin Jewi sh Unity & Pride Chaya Mushka Scheerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the event is scheduled to coincide with her Join Rabbi Levi every Tuesday evening at birthday on the 25th of Adar. EstherLa inspiredg Bthe 'delightedOm er BBQ 7:45pm for an informative and thought crowd with her pleasant voice and provoking Torah class. beautiful songs, peppered with personal Sanecdotesund aandy Chassidic, Ma y 14 - 4:00pm lessons. Eight-year-old Sophie Spier, A service for the seniors, home-bound and anyone that a member of the Youth Opera of El cannot make it in person! Paso delighted the audience with a solo of “Oseh Shalom Bimromav” A Taste of Things to Come - Seudat Moshiach The Last Day of Pesach - Tuesday, April 18 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 Tuesday, April 18 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 5777 | April 2017

From the Rabbis’ Blog www.chabadelpaso.com/blog Two centuries of living in the en- Mishkan, representing the perma- can radiate. Just as the construction vironment of the morally corrupt nent revelation of G-d in the midst of the Tabernacle was the result of and depraved Egyptian empire took of the Jewish camp. the united and enthusiastic efforts of its toll on the descendants of Ja- Ever since, the divine energy nev- the entire Jewish nation to comply cob. If not for their distinguishable er departed the Jewish scene. Even with G-d’s wishes and instructions. language, fashion style and names after the destruction of the Temples, This dynamic also sheds light on they would be virtually identical to we are capable of creating a space how the idea of redemption can be their masters. They had assimilated in which divinity is readily apparent. applied and relevant in all times. to and adopted the behavior of their The fact that these two incidents, Humans are chronically shackled host country. the establishment of the Jewish cal- to the needs of the physical body. Before whisking the Jews out of endar and the inauguration of the A surgeon performing a life-saving Egypt, it was necessary to introduce Tabernacle occurred on the same operation, an officer on a search and some basic elements of divinity to day, emphasizes their correlation to rescue mission or a scholar in the them, so that they should be worthy each other. midst of a major academic discov- of deliverance. On the first day on Jewish months are determined by ery all need to pay close attention to Rabbi Levi Greenberg Nissan, 15 days before the Exodus, the lunar cycle. The barely visible their nutrition and sleeping behav- G-d communicated to Moses the crescent represents a new begin- iors. An exhausted body can sabo- Reflection to Redemption mitzvah of setting up the Jewish cal- ning and a full moon represents the tage the greatest endeavors. endar. The Jewish calendar guide- highest achievements. The reflexive Nevertheless, within this physical Redemption, Freedom and Lib- lines in place today were embedded changes in the moon’s size are due “exile” we are capable of attaining erty are all seasonal buzzwords. in the divine communique to Moses to its posturing in reflecting the light great divine accomplishments, just Whereas Passover is called the over 3,300 years ago. of the sun – the dependable lumi- as the Israelites started keeping a Festival of Redemption, the entire A year later, on the same day, the nary of our sky. Jewish calendar while still enslaved month of Nissan is called the Month young Jewish nation celebrated the To serve as a platform for Di- by Pharaoh. Notwithstanding chal- of Redemption. Although the Israel- inauguration of the Mishkan (Tab- vine revelation one needs to be in lenges from without and within, ites were still trapped in the clutches ernacle) service, in the Sinai Desert. a position to reflect G-d’s light as leading a life of uncompromising of Pharaoh and in shackled in Egyp- This edifice served as the prototype it is transmitted to us in His To- devotion to our Jewish obligations tian Servitude until the 15th of the for the subsequent Holy Temples rah. Through continued study and is within reach. As long as we are month, the very first day of Nissan built in Jerusalem. As Aron the High growth in Mitzvah observance, one always aware of our obligation to heralded in a new era for the Jewish Priest completed the service of the can become a proper vessel through reflect the Divine, redemption will nation. day, a cloud descended upon the which true goodness and kindness always be around the corner.

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I pleaded for my life, but to couldn’t wait for the seder to begin, clothing, but the stranger insisted it and gave him whatever he asked for. no avail. but their father seemed a bit sad. wasn’t necessary. “What for?” he “What a glutton!” everyone else “At that moment a man walked in And what, in fact, was bothering asked. “The clothes I’m wearing at the table thought. No one could and asked what all the commotion him? That he had only found two are good enough. Besides, I’m sure understand why he was being treated was about. When he saw me tied guests to invite, instead of the usual they’ll be dry by the time we finish so deferentially. up on the floor he said, ‘Leave him dozen. The seder just wouldn’t be praying the evening service.” After the third cup of wine was alone! If he dies, many others will the same. “Whatever you wish,” the man poured and they were about to recite die with him - all the workers he The father was a wealthy Jew said. Everyone wondered why the the grace after meals, the father asked employs and all the poor people he who gave a tremendous amount stranger was so reluctant to part with for everyone’s attention. “Children,” supports. I used to work for him, and of tzedaka (charity). His business his dirty clothes. he said, “tonight it is a mitzva to tell I can tell you firsthand that he is a employed a great many people, and The stranger put his knapsack the story of the Exodus. It is also good man. Just let him be. Do it for he was always trying to find work on the floor and went off to the an appropriate time to recount the my sake.” for more. His home was open to the synagogue with his host. When they miracles that one has experienced “The next morning we were poor and needy, and every Shabbat came home, the children noticed personally...” allowed to leave. The man who and holiday it was filled with guests. that their father was treating this He then proceeded to recount saved my life accompanied us back This year, however, the weather guest with unusual deference. The an event that had happened years to the main road. And if you want to had been terrible, and the roads were stranger was seated at the head of the before, when he had set out on a know his identity, he is sitting right virtually empty. For this reason, there table, and he kept smiling at him as business trip with two other Jews. here by my side...” had been precious few strangers to if they were old friends. After several hours a snowstorm had The children looked at the chair invite. “’Magid,’ “ the father announced, suddenly materialized, their wagon next to their father - but it was Suddenly, there was a knock at and everyone began to recite the and two horses had been stranded empty! Without anyone noticing the door. Hoping it might be a guest Hagada. Everyone, that is, except in the middle of nowhere. By then it the stranger had left the table and the man ran to open it. “I’ve lost for the stranger, who didn’t open was completely dark. disappeared. They conducted a my way in the snow,” the stranger his mouth. In fact, had anyone “We were running out of hope,” thorough search but he was gone. apologized. “I beg you, as a fellow been watching closely, he would the man recalled, “when suddenly And for some reason, he had been in Jew: Please allow me to participate have seen that the man wasn’t even we saw a light in the distance. W e such a hurry that he had forgotten to in your Passover seder.” turning the pages. Occasionally it were overjoyed when we discovered take his knapsack. “You are extremely welcome!” even seemed as if he was sleeping... it came from a house, but our joy did After the holiday they opened the wealthy Jew replied joyfully. When it was time for the meal not last long. We had stumbled upon it up, and found a gold watch and “We’d be delighted to have you join the stranger suddenly perked up. a thieves’ den. They were as pleased chain and some money. us at the seder table.” The stranger’s His table manners were atrocious. to see us as a hungry animal about to

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Purim in the Shtetl Page 8 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Nissan 5777 | April 2017 Your PASSOVER Guide • 13 - 22 Nissan After the search, place the ten pieces work on a particular aspect,until our soul is What Is Chametz? of chametz in a conspicuous spot until fully primed to receive a spark of G-dliness It is forbidden for a Jew to consume or own morning. on the 50th day, Shavuot. Chametz for eight and a half days, starting at noontime of the Seder day (Monday, Monday, April 10, 2017 April 10) through the eight days of Passover Firstborn Fast Thursday, April 13 — (through Tuesday, April 18). Chametz is any When G-d slew the firstborn sons of Egypt Sunday, April 16, 2017 leavened products containing wheat, barley, on the eve of the Exodus, he spared the Chol HaMoed oats, rye or spelt. Jewish firstborns. In commemoration and The four days between the first two and Clear your home of all chametz: thanks, firstborn sons fast on this day. It is last two holy days of Passover are called Remember to empty pockets, vacuum said, “Joy breaks all boundaries.” Since the Chol Hamoed. The laws of only eating cleaner bags, and to replace pet foods for joy of a mitzvah—such as the completion of food that is Kosher for Passover (chametz the week. You will need to use a separate studying a Talmudic tractate—transcends free) apply. During these four days, the set of dishes for Passover. Gather all your the obligation to fast, on this day many only other difference from your normal chametz dishes and store them in a closet firstborn sons break their fast early with a life is like your mother keepstelling you, during Passover. siyum (mitzvah meal of joy) by completing “You shouldn’t work so hard.” Keep your Hit the Aisles – Any processed food you the study of a tractate on this day. spirits up: it’s a custom to drink a glass of eat on Passover (and year-round) needs Burning the Chametz wine every day of Passover. kosher supervision. It is customary to burn all leftover Shevii Shel Pesach The supermarket aisles are loaded with chametz in the morning of Erev Pesach. On this day, over 3,300 years ago the sea “Kosher for Passover” products. Fruits, When burning the chametz say: “All split and the Jewish people were officially vegetables and most raw and unprocessed leaven or anything leavened which is in my free. Experience your own spiritual wake- foods are kosher for Passover. (Consult with possession, which I have neither seen nor up call tonight by staying up until dawn, your Rabbi about using beans or legumes). removed, and about which I am unaware, studying works of Divine wisdom—the It is a good idea to plan to go healthy for shall be considered nullified and ownerless Torah. the eight days and cook everything from as the dust of the earth.” scratch. 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Encore! – As the day draws The First Seder The Second Seder to a close, the world experiences an Chametz for Sale outpouring of Divine consciousness. In addition to the prohibition of eating Tuesday Night, April 11, 2017 Following the custom of the Baal Shem chametz on Passover, it is forbidden to Sefirat Haomer Tov, founder of Chassidism, Passover own any chametz during the eight days of Counting of the Omer concludes with a “Feast of Moshiach.” Passover. Therefore, we temporarily sell Tonight we begin the counting of the This festive meal complete with matzah our chametz to a non-Jew. This is a legally Omer, named for the Omer offering of new and, yes, four cups of wine, begins before binding sale (according to both Jewish and crops brought in the Temple on the second sunset. It is the perfect way to spiritually civil law). Fill out and mail in the sale form day of Passover. We count 49 days from take leave of Passover and open our (See page 11). This is a legal document Passover until Shavuot in anticipation for consciousness to the coming redemption. authorizing your Rabbi to transfer the the day when we received the holy Torah It’s All Over Now: Nightfall marks ownership of your chametz to a non-Jew at Mount Sinai. During the Omer count, the end of Passover. Wait about an hour for the duration of Passover. The Rabbi will we work on self growth in preparation for after the holiday ends to eat chametz to buy back your chametz at the conclusion of this monumental event. A person has 49 your heart’s content. This will give your Passover. combined emotional and spiritual traits. Rabbi enough time to buy back your sold chametz. Sunday, April 9, 2017 Each day of the Omer is a propitious time to Search For Chametz At nightfall (7:57pm) we formally search our homes for chametz. Tightly roll ten Be Sure To Have Shmurah Matzah pieces of chametz in paper wrappings Shmurah means watched. Shmurah is an apt description of this matzah. The flour and hide them around the house. It is and water ingredients are watched from the moment of harvesting and drawing. recommended to keep a list of your hiding The day chosen for the harvesting of the wheat is a clear, dry day. The moment places in case you can’t find one of the ten pieces. Traditionally, a lit candle is used to it is harvested the wheat is inspected to ensure that there is absolutely no moisture. help with the search. A spoon (shovel) and From then, careful watch is kept on the grains as they are transported to the mill. feather (broom) are used to help scoop the The mill is meticulously inspected to ensure that each piece of equipment that will ten hidden pieces of chametz into a paper be used in the making of the matzah is absolutely clean and dry. The flour is then bag. Before beginning the search, recite this transported to the bakery under strict supervision. blessing: -ruch A-toh Ado-noi The water, too, is carefully secluded to prevent any contact with wheat or other E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ho-olom grains. The water is drawn the night before the baking, and is kept pure until the A-sher Ki-de-sha-nu moment it is mixed with the flour to bake the shmurah matzah. Be-mitz-vo-sov Ve-tzi-vo-nu In the bakery itself shmurah matzot are made under strict supervision to avoid Al Bee-ur Cho-metz. any possibility of leavening during the baking process. Shmurah matzot are round “Blessed are You, L-rd our G-d, King of and kneaded and shaped by hand. In these two ways they are similar to the matzot the universe, who has sanctified us by His that were baked by the Israelites as they left Egypt. It is thus fitting to use shmurah commandments, and has commanded us matzah on each of the two Seder nights for the matzot of the Seder plate. concerning the removal of chametz.” Nissan 5777 | April 2017 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Page 9 5777 • April 9 - April 18, 2017 Any other night, we would be getting to the meal now. But tonight we do things differently to spark the interest of children The Passover Seder Plate and to provoke them to ask questions. If The Seder Plate (Ka’arah) includes most of the 2) “Beitzah” - a hard-boiled egg. It represents they ask, “Hey! Aren’t we supposed to eat ingredients that go into the making of the Seder. the festival offering. real food now?”—you know you’re doing Its three matazahs and the six other items are 3) “Maror” - grated horseradish (just the things right. arranged in a formation horseradish -- not the The child is the most important participant dictated by their red stuff that has vinegar at the Seder. In fact, the entire Seder with all mystical significance and beets added) and/ its customs revolves around children. The and relationship vis-a- or romaine lettuce. This essential mitzvah of the Seder is to “tell the vis each other. is the bitter herbs. story to your child.” Here’s how to set up 4) “” - a paste But more than children learn from us, we your Ka’arah: made of apples, pears, learn from children. Tonight, we enter the On a large plate, nuts and wine. You will mind and heart of a child. We awaken our tray or cloth, place dip the bitter herbs into three whole matzahs, the Charoset. child within, the place that is innocent and each one piled on top 5) “” - a piece able to grow, to be amazed, to sense awe. of the other. It’s best to of an onion or potato. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch once use round, hand-baked 6) “Chazeret” -- more said, “If you want to know what it is like to shmurah matzah. bitter herbs. This is used see with the eyes of a prophet, look at the Cover the matzahs in the matzah-maror world the way you did as a child.” with a cloth or tray. sandwich Step 4 YACHATZ (Breaking the matzah) Above the covering, You will also need Take the middle matzah position the following six items as pictured above a wine cup or goblet for each participant at the from your Seder Plate and right: Seder. And, of course, plenty of wine: enough to break it into two. Put the 1) “” - a roasted chicken bone with most of fill four cups per person. smaller piece back between its meat removed. This represents the Passover Prepare a dish of salt water in which to dip the the two complete matzahs. offering. It is not eaten during the Seder. Karpas. This piece is the “poor man’s bread” over which we will recount the story of our Exodus. Step 2 URCHATZ (Washing hands) Break the larger piece into five and wrap Your 15-Step “Soulful For this step, you could bring a basin and the pieces in a cloth. Hide the package until towel to the table or you can head to the the end of the Seder when it will be eaten as Seder” Companion kitchen sink. Fill a cup with water. Pour the the . Some have the tradition that Step 1 KADESH (A toast to freedom) water over your right hand three times, then children hide the Afikoman and the adults It’s been a busy week and a busy year. over your left hand three times. That’s how have to find it at the end of the meal. In other The first step of the the Kohanim (priests) washed when they traditions, the adults hide it and the children Seder is to forget the entered the Holy . must find it. Either way, it keeps the kids in noise and leave it (When we wash our hands again before suspense. behind. Tonight we eating matzah, we’ll recite a blessing. But Why is there so much broken in this enter a timeless space, not now.) world? Why did the Creator make a world where we experience Our hands are the instruments that where hearts break, lives shatter, beauty the Exodus together allow the mind to interact with our crumbles? A whole vessel can only contain with Moses and environment. They reflect our mental its measure, while a broken one can hold all our ancestors— state, and act according to our emotions: the Infinite. The broken matzah is called with generations of rejoicing and tears, of love, fear, compassion, the urge to win, the “poor man’s bread.” His brokenness celebration and wisdom—by doing just to be appreciated, to express ourselves. allows him to open his soul and escape his what we will do tonight. Too often, our psyche is fragmented and Egypt. When we realize that we are just a Fill your cup with wine (or grape juice). compartmentalized—the mind sees one fragment—that we need the others around That’s the first of four cups you’ll enjoy at way, the heart feels another—and our us, that so much of ourselves is missing— tonight’s Seder. Make sure your cup holds interaction with the world is disoriented. then miracles can begin. at least 3-1/2 ounces. Everyone stands and Water symbolizes wisdom. Flowing Step 5 MAGGID (Retelling) recites Kiddush together. It’s all there in downward from on high, everything in its The Seder Plate is your Haggadah. Now get ready for some stream is affected by its pure and simple moved aside and the serious relaxing—recline on a cushion to essence. We pour water over our hands so second cup of wine is your left side while you drink. (Remember that our heart and emotions may be touched filled. The story of our the good old days, when kings would recline by wisdom, and from there, shape our Exodus is now retold. on couches while sampling wines? That’s interaction with the world. Children ask the Four Questions, found what we emulate by reclining. We are not Step 3 KARPAS (The appetizer) in your Haggadah. (Of course, they can just free; we are our own masters.) After washing our always ask more.) No children at your Every journey begins with a separation. hands in the previous Seder? Have an adult ask. There’s just You’ve got to leave somewhere to get step, we now dip a you? You be the child and G-d, the Father. somewhere else. The Hebrew word vegetable (for example, Say the blessing and drink the second cup “kadesh” means “separation,” which is the potato, onion or parsley) at the end of this step. first step towards freedom. It also means to into saltwater. Say the The experience of leaving Egypt left “sanctify.” Once you’ve separated yourself blessing for eating such an indelible mark on our soul that from those things that inhibit your soul, vegetables, and munch we never stop doing it. The Exodus is you can achieve the second meaning of good; you’re not going to eat for a while. not simply an event that happened to us. “kadesh”—to “sanctify” our world. The first The saltwater represents the tears of our It is found in the life of each one of us, two steps of the Seder, Kadesh (separate/ people, beginning with our slavery in Egypt. occurring again and again in our wrestling sanctify) and Urchatz (purify) describe what In order to free ourselves from our personal match with the world and in our struggle we set out to accomplish this night: to pass Egypt, we taste harshness again. This with our own selves. To retell the story is over the limitations of our world in order to harshness gives us the humility necessary to express our essential self; to come face elevate it. for freedom. to face with who we really are.

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... Passover Guide continued from page 9 Step 6 RACHTZAH (Washing hands) bitter herbs, but you want after journeying through the steps of the We now prepare ourselves to eat matzah to sweeten the bitterness. Seder. Then, when we have connected every by again washing our hands. Pour some Say the blessing: “. . . facet of ourselves with the Divine, that’s water over your right hand three times, then Who commanded us when that ability comes to us. Whether we over your left hand three times. Say the concerning eating bitter sense it or not, the matzah we eat now—the appropriate blessing and dry your hands. herbs.” matzah of tzafun—reaches deep into our In Judaism, eating can be a spiritual We can never get used essence, empowering us to transform our experience. Since the destruction of the to Egypt, thinking, “They are our masters, very being. Holy Temple, the table upon which we eat we are their slaves, and that’s the way it is.” Step 13 BAIRACH (Grace after meal) is likened to the Altar. We wash our hands Being stopped from true self-expression The third cup is before eating to prepare ourselves for an must remain something we feel bitter about, now filled. Once experience in which we can encounter something that is not right and needs to you’ve said grace G-dliness. Spiritual freedom is not achieved change. after the meal and the by ignoring or suppressing our human needs If we get used to Egypt, it’s very hard to appropriate blessing and desires, but rather by acknowledging escape. In fact, many Jews said, “Egypt is for wine, drink this and fulfilling them in a holy way. our home. How can we leave?” and they cup while leaning to your left. Step 7 MOTZIE (Thanking G-d for bread) died there. When Moses announced the Now fill a special cup of wine, the Cup of Raise the three matzahs time had come, it was only those who felt Elijah, and set it in the middle of the table. together—the top one, the bitterness that had the faith to leave. This You won’t drink this one—it’s for Elijah broken middle one and is the sweetness that is connected with the Prophet, who comes to announce the the bottom one—and say the bitter herbs: Bitterness without faith is imminent arrival of Moshiach. Then fill the blessing found in your self-destructive, but mixed together, it can your fourth (and final) cup, from which Haggadah: become the springboard to freedom. you will drink a little later. “. . . Who brings forth bread out of the Step 10 KORECH (Sandwich) Open the front door of your home to earth.” Then return the bottom matzah to Take two pieces of welcome Elijah and recite the prayer, the Seder Plate. matzah, totalling at least “Pour out Your wrath . . . “ from the We feel an affinity with the bread we an ounce (using the Haggadah. Watch Elijah enter. (Can’t see eat: We too are a miracle “out of the bottom matzah). Take him? Maybe you had too much wine.) earth” and we share a common journey. an ounce of maror, dip it Our Sages taught: Whatever G-d asks Bread begins as a seed buried beneath the in charoset, then shake of us, He also does Himself. Of course, ground. And then, off the charoset. Place the maror between there’s a difference. We do it in our little a miracle occurs—the seed decomposes the matzah pieces and say: “So did Hillel in human world, while He does it on a grand and loses its original form, then it comes the time of the Holy Temple . . .” Lean to the cosmic plane. alive, and begins to sprout and grow. As left while eating. He asks us to open our doors, and Spring arrives, it pushes its way above the Hillel understood the words of the Torah tonight, He opens every spiritual door and earth to find the sun, and bears its fruit for about the Pesach lamb, “with matzah and gateway. Regardless of our past, tonight the world. bitter herbs you shall eat it,” in their literal is our opportunity to enter the highest of We, too, began buried in Egypt, our sense. So he invented the sandwich. spiritual levels. identity all but lost. But that furnace of The world, when viewed from within Step 14 HALLEL (Praise) oppression became for us a firing kiln, the Egypt, looks to be a mess of fragments. It’s “Songs of Praise” are now offered. It’s all ground from which we grew to become a “Passoverly Challenged” perspective— there in your Haggadah. Sing them to your a nation. In our liberation, we bring our plain materialism. appear to be heart’s content. At the end, say a blessing fruits of freedom to the world. a mishmash of dos and don’ts; the Jewish and drink the fourth and final cup while Step 8 MATZAH (Bless the matzah) people are a collection of irreconcilable leaning to the left. Recite the blessing individuals; daily life is a cacophony of Does G-d need us to praise Him? It is on the top and (broken) hassles. we who need to. When we praise G-d, we middle matzah: “. . But once we escape materialism’s become more conscious of His presence. . Who commanded gravitational pull, we can look back and see We open the channels through which we us concerning eating a new perspective. Mitzvahs are multiple can perceive His kindness. This is also matzah.” expressions of a single spiritual path; Jews mirrored in the human sphere: When you Break off a piece from are multiple faces of a single soul; the compliment someone as “kind” or “fair,” each of these two matzahs for yourself elements of tonight’s journey harmonize you are revealing those qualities. and for each of those sitting at your table. together as a symphony playing a delicate Step 15 NIRTZAH (Acceptance) Everyone eats at least two ounces (about melody. The bitter and sweet fragments of The steps of the Seder have been two thirds of a matzah). To do this, you life wrap together in a single package. integrated into our consciousness and may need an auxiliary reserve of matzah. Step 11 SHULCHAN ORECH (Festive meal) accepted. Now we pause, take a deep Lean to the left while you munch. It is the custom of some to begin the breath, and reflect on our experience: We The Zohar calls matzah “food of meal with eating the egg on the Seder Plate, examined our personal challenges through mehemnuta.” “Mehemnuta” is Aramaic dipped in saltwater. The egg symbolizes the the slavery of our ancestors, and we for “faith” but it means a lot more than “I cycle of life and is also a sign of mourning. achieved a personal freedom by reliving believe.” Faith often is something people At every festive occasion, we mourn the the Exodus. We completed our part in good claim when they don’t care to think too destruction of Jerusalem. faith; the rest is up to you-know-Who. much. “Mehemnuta” means reaching the Dinner is served. The last song of the Seder echoes our place where your soul and the Infinite Step 12 TZAFUN (Out of hiding) hope and that of our ancestors that G-d are One. It’s a place that nothing can At the conclusion of the Passover meal, complete our broken world, and that His describe. There are no words. No doubts, the Afikoman (which had been in hiding) promise for a world of peace and wisdom no uncertainty, no confusion. Nothing is returned. Everyone eats two-thirds become a reality. “Nation shall not lift but a magnificent Oneness before which of a matzah, after which nothing else is up sword against nation, nor study war nothing else exists and within which the consumed tonight, except for the two anymore,” and the entire world will dwell challenges of life withdraw. remaining cups of wine. “in a city built where all are united as one.” By eating matzah, we digest and There is the soul, and then there is the internalize “mehemnuta” and become essence of the soul. If the soul is energy, then Next Year in Jerusalem! one with the One. that essence is its generator. The Kabbalah Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi did not Step 9 MAROR (Bitter herbs) teaches that this essence remains elusive. It include the passage “The order of Pesach Maror is the bitter taste of our slavery is called “tzafun,” meaning hidden, locked is concluded” in his Haggadah, for indeed, in Egypt. Dip at least one ounce of bitter away and out of reach. We can be inspired, the Seder never concludes. Its message herbs (horseradish, romaine lettuce or we can meditate, we can pray. But to touch endures throughout the year. A Jew leaves both) in charoset, which recalls the mortar this essence—to access our essential self— Egypt every day by transcending his of our enslavement, then shake off the takes a power from Beyond. limitations, reaching ever higher levels of charoset. It’s a delicate balance: You want Tonight, we have that ability. But only holiness. Nissan 5777 | April 2017 The El Paso CHABAD TIMES Page 11

The Pesach Calendar • Nissan 13-22, 5777 • April 9 - April 18, 2017 First Days of Pesach Last Days of Pesach Sunday, April 9 Formal Search for the Chometz...... 7:57pm Friday, April 14 Candle Lighting Time...... 7:17pm Monday, Shacharit-Followed by Siyum for the Fast of Blessing #3 April 10 the First Born...... 7:00am Stop eating Chometz before...... 10:58am Shabbat, April 15 Shabbat ends...... 8:13pm Destroy Chometz before...... 12:02am Candle lighting...... 7:14pm Blessing #1 and #2 Sunday, April 16 Candle Lighting Time...... 7:18pm Mincha...... 7:00pm Blessing #1 1st Seder Mincha...... 7:15pm Chabad Community Seder...... 7:30pm Monday, April 17 Shacharit...... 9:30am Tuesday, Shacharit...... 9:30am Mincha...... 7:15pm April 11 Mincha...... 7:15pm Candle Lighting Time after...... 8:14pm Candle Lighting Time after...... 8:10pm (from a pre existent flame) Blessing #1 (from a pre existent flame) Blessings #1 and #2 Tuesday, April 18 Shacharit...... 9:30am Yizkor...... 11:00am Wednesday, Shacharit...... 9:30am Mincha...... 6:45pm April 12 Mincha...... 7:15pm Seudas Moshiach...... 7:00pm Holiday ends...... 8:11pm Holiday Ends after...... 8:15pm 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 VE- BE-MITZ-VO-SOV VE-TZI-VO-NU LE-HAD- VI-KIYE-MO-NU VE-HE-GE-O-NU LEZ-MAN TZI-VO-NU LE-HAD-LIK NER SHEL SHABBOS KODESH. LIK NER 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 com- mandments, and commanded us to kindle the us, and enabled us to reach this occasion. manded us to kindle the light of the Holy Shabbos. Yom Tov light.

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