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Passover Guide How to Passover 13-22 Nissan, 5769 • April 7-16, 2009 the Soulful Meaning, How to Seder, History, Customs, Blessings, Schedules & How to Celebrate Celebration! PASSOVER GUIDE HOW TO PASSOVER 13-22 Nissan, 5769 • April 7-16, 2009 the soulful meaning, how to seder, history, customs, blessings, schedules & how to celebrate. THE JOURNEY OF FREEDOM ERS HT IG L P M A L The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, OBM – whose birthday is SOME on the 11th day of the month of Nissan, Celebration! four days before Passover – made the 3 REBBE’S MESSAGE idea of absolute personal freedom one PassOver, Jump Over of the hallmarks of his leadership. The 3 CELEBRATION OF UNITY Rebbe’s example and inspiration sent the message to all those who knew him that 4 FREEDOM, FAITH, AND PassoverTHOUGHts we can always rise above our individual NATIONHOOD limitations. “I can’t” does not exist. 5 THE SEDER My Dear Friends, Wisconsin Jewry, The practical how, what and the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Rabbi meaning of items on the seder Consider the following question. Are we Jonathan Sacks, recalls how as a young free people who were once slaves or are plate philosophy student at Cambridge he we slaves who were once freed? 7 BIRKAS HACHAMAH traveled the world visiting great leaders. Rarest event on the Jewish This is not a word game or a matter of When he came to see the Rebbe, the calendar semantics. It’s question of true identity. Rebbe asked him what he was doing for 8 SOULFUL SEDER What is our essence? Who are we really? the Jewish students at Cambridge. Having Join us as we perform the Is our freedom conditional or absolute? little to report, the young Sacks sought to Are we defined by our circumstances Seder; as our bodies and souls explain himself, “In the circumstances experience and celebrate or do we have the power to define our I currently find myself…” The Rebbe liberation and freedom today circumstances? interrupted him and said, “No one ‘finds 23 HOW TO PASSOVER In the Haggadah we say, “It was not himself’ in circumstances. We create our How to prepare for Passover and just our ancestors whom G-d redeemed own circumstances.” what to do once it’s here, for the from Egypt; He redeemed us as well The message of absolute and intrinsic duration along with them....” freedom is particularly relevant in our 28 WELCOME TO DAKAR Ever since G-d redeemed us from challenging times. While we must deal A fascinating story of love and Egyptian bondage, chose us as His people with the current economic realities, we care and gave us the Torah, we were granted cannot allow them to define us, diverting 30 WANTON LOVE TODAY intrinsic freedom which transcends all us from what is truly important in life. conditions and circumstances. We must not fall prey to our fears or 32 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT In choosing us as His people at the compromise our principles. LUBAVITCH OF WISCONSIN time of the giving of the Torah, G-d A photo gallery of recent events As a truly free people, there is nothing in endowed us with something of Himself. the world that can rob us of our freedom 38 PASSOVER SCHEDULES AND And just as G-d, the Eternal, transcends BLESSINGS the conditions of the world so do His of choice, our ability to choose our own 39 COUNTIng OF THE OmER people. actions and even our own thoughts and moods. We are free to transcend our SCHEDULE Our continual existence over the past own fears. 39 SALE OF CHOMETZ 3,300 years is testimony to this fact. It is CERTIFICATE said that the Prussian Emperor, Frederick As we celebrate Passover, may its spirit the Great, once asked his religious advisor of freedom permeate our lives and inspire for a proof of G-d that he could see with us with its message throughout the year. CELEBRATION! Vol. 39 #4 March 2008 his own eyes. “Your Majesty,” came the May it carry us to the day when the entire reply, “Behold the Jews.” world will be free, with the coming of Published 6 times a year by Lubavitch of Wisconsin Mashiach speedily in our days. But while G-d’s watchfulness and 3109 N. Lake Drive • Milwaukee, WI 53211 providence have preserved us to this day, Phone: (414) 961-6100 Best wishes for a very happy and kosher it is incumbent upon us, individually, to FAX: (414) 962-1740 Passover, e-mail: [email protected] access our internal freedom and express it www.chabadwi.org in the way we live. Rabbi Yisroel Shmotkin 2 Check out our weekly online magazine at www.LubavitchofWI.org the power to step out—in the words The Rebbe’s of the Hagaddah—“from slavery to freedom, from sorrow to joy, from mourning to festivity, from darkness Message to great light, from bondage to redemption.” Thus, our sages decreed that PassOver, Jump Over the Exodus from Egypt is an event that should recur in each Adapted from the teachings of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. generation of our history, and in every day of our lives. For Schneerson, OBM, by Yanki Tauber what else is an “Exodus” if not the power of a people to step out of their past, to wrench free of their circumstances, to give e know that every action produces a reaction birth to a new self that is independent of the womb from which and every event becomes a cause for numerous it emerged? subsequent events. Think of it: gazillions of Therein lays the deeper meaning of the name of the festival. occurrences and actions, all conspiring to While commonly translated “Passover,” the Hebrew word Wdictate to this one single point of now. Any change in any past Pesach literally means to “jump over.” event would alter this equation and produce a different result. “Walking” or “running” implies a change of place, yet this is Simply stated, the present—what I’m going to do and what’s a change that derives from, and is predicated upon, the previous going to happen to me at this very moment—is the sum and position. One foot leaves the ground, but the other remains product of all that I did and all that happened to me up to planted there to provide the forward impetus. The movement now. may be small or great, slow or swift; but in all cases, each step Philosophers are bothered by this because thinking man derives from the one before it. tends to think of himself as a creature endowed with choice. A “jump,” in which both feet leave the ground, implies a break Physicists have a problem with this, because their microscopes from the past—a quantum leap rather than an incremental and particle accelerators reveal a random universe. As for the step, a rebirth rather than a maturing. rest of us, we wake each morning to a new day, but soon feel the Yet the purpose of the jump is not to leap to heaven and stay familiar weight of our yesterdays pressing us into the grooves of there. If you do that, you missed the whole point. The idea is habit and necessity. Nevertheless, we continue to believe that to return to the ground, not only one or two or many strides we are “in control,” that with a sufficient amount of determined ahead, but also as a different person from the one who crouched effort we can, and will, break free. down to leap. To return to your past not as prisoner bound by The Jewish calendar reserves eight days each year to celebrate its laws, but as a master descending upon it from above to use that faith. The eight days of Passover, “our season of freedom,” it and mold it to higher ends as you advance in your journey. embody the conviction that, in any given moment, we have Until the next jump. Let’s Celebrate Unity Together Sunday, 4 Nissan/March 29 1:45 - 3:00pm At The Shul, 383 W. Brown Deer Rd., Bayside Light refreshments will be served. In Jewish tradition, this year is a Hakhel year, a year of gathering and connection. Join with tens of thousands from around the globe for an inspirational speech via live satellite with Britain's Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, as he shares a pre-Passover message of freedom, hope, and unity for our uncertain world. Call 414-228-8000 or visit www.chabadwi.org for more information. Special Passover presentation at www.chabadwi.org/Pesach 3 FREEDOM, FAITH, AND NATIONHOOD “Has such a great thing ever been?” proclaimed Moses forty years later, “Or has the like of it ever been heard? ... Has G-d ever endeavored to come and take for Himself a nation from the womb of a nation, amidst trials, signs, wonders and battles … as G-d has done for you in Egypt before your eyes?” (Deuteronomy 4:32-34) A nation from the womb of a nation. On the 15th day of Nissan in the year 2448 from creation (1313 BCE), a new entity, the People of Israel, was born, delivered by G-d “from slavery into freedom, from darkness into a great light, from bondage into redemption.” Seven days later, our rescue from Egypt was complete when the sea split to allow us passage and drowned Pharaoh’s armies in its waters. The eight-day festival of Passover, which straddles these two events, is our annual appointment in time to access the freedom of the Exodus, the faith that made it possible, and the nationhood we thereby gained. What is freedom and how is it achieved? What is “faith” and how does it contrast/complement the rational and experiential aspects of our lives? What makes a “people,” and why should we need and/or desire to belong to one? How do the various Passover observances – the Passover offering, the prohibition against chometz (leaven), the three matzahs and the four cups of wine, etc.
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