While some of you may be able to relate, perhaps not so many of you have an almost-three-year-old living in your home who has been singing (yelling?) Passover songs since the morning Purim passed.
Unique to her singing this year was the declaration: “No, ima (mommy), you can’t sing with me right now. You’ll sing with me at the Passover seder, but not right now, not until then. Wait until seder.”
For the Miller family, our seder night was different from all other nights because the tiny human that rules our home finally invited us to join her in song as we uncovered the story of the seder through music, sacred shared memories, and of course, food.
Why was this night different from all other nights for your family?
Was your table fuller than in years past? (or perhaps a little emptier?)
Did you use the family china that only comes out at Passover?
Did you recline with your pillow?
Did you hear the story of our people and were you moved to reflect on its relationship to your life today differently than you have in years past?
No matter how your seder was different or the same you:
a) Have the chance to do it all again for the second-night seder
AND
b) Have the rest of Passover to continue engaging with the holiday, its themes, its stories, and Zo’s personal favorites, its songs!
Shabbat Shalom and Chag Pesach Sameach,
Rabbi Rachael
