Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1972 — Page 15

THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

Friday, March 31, 1972

guests go through the time- and guests around a festive

for the seder. The family and table.

honored and fondly-remembered Passover holds out the hope ritual; the kiddush, the asking for Israel’s redemption and for “And ye shall observe the Freedom” begins on the 15th the end of a dark period of Four Questions, the the future deliverance of feast of unleavened bread; for day of Nisan and is observed slavery. On the first Passover recital ol Israel s woes and of mankind. This two-fold characin this selfsame day have I for eight days. It com- freedom was born. Today that God’s might, the Hallel, the teristic of Passover, the brought your hosts out of the memorates the emancipation of concept is man’s most precious delicious first Pesah meal and, Passover of years ago and the land of Egypt; therefore shall the Jewish people from heritage. finally, the merry songs enjoyed Passover of the future, is exye observe this day throughout Egyptian bondage and their The observance and laws of by young and old alike. Thus pressed in poetical insertions in your generation by an ordinance exodus from Egypt. For more Passover are found throughout the seder is the retelling of the the iestival prayers and by the forever.” — Exodus 12:17. than three thousand years we the Bible. The festival of Pass- exodus story in a dramatic Haggadah, the basis of the Passover, the festival des- have observed Passover with over is known by three names pageant enacted by the family seder service, ignated as the “Season of our thanksgiving because it marks each with its own significant

meaning: Hag ha-Matzot, Feast of the Unleavened Bread (Ex. 23.15) the Biblical designation in commemoration of the actual exodus; Hag ha-Pesah, Festival of the Paschal Offering (ibid, 34, 25), the reference to the paschal lamb; and Zeman Herutenu, Season of Our Freed o m, which marks the establishment of the children of Israel as a free and indepenaent

people.

The number four plays a significant role in the Haggadah and the Seder ceremonials. There are the four cups of wine, four questions, four sons, four expressions of redemption — I will bring you out ... I will deliver you ... I will redeem you ... I will take you . . . (Ex. 6. 6-7). Four special foods — pesah (roasted bone), matzah, maror and haroset — are mentioned throughout the

service.

Nisan, the month in which Passover falls, has a special status. With the exception of the day preceding Passover, fasting is not permitted during the entire month. The Talmud tells us that the Tabernacle was erected on the first of Nisan and a representative of each of the twelve tribes offered a sacrifice on the first twelve days of the month. Each of these days was considered a festival. The Saturday preceding Passover is known as Shabbat ha-Gadol, the Great Sabbath. Passover is also known as the “Feast of Unleavened Bread.” Every phase of the observance is fastidiously carried out — the ritual of cleaning the home, of destroying leaven, as well as the preparation of the haroset, maror and roasted bone — all symbols of the experiences of the children of Israel in Egypt. The house is fragrant with sweet nostalgic odors of the traditional holiday foods. The seder table is beautifully set with shining candlesticks, the Haggadah and wine goblet at each place, the seder plate before the master of the house and the cup for the prophet

Elijah.

In a systematic way the Talmud set up an Order of Service

An American (Continued from Preceding Pg.) children are learning firsthand what co-operation really is. They don’t have to be taught to help their f e 11 o w - m a n . They’re living it.” Chickens and roses, melons and grapefruit, fertilizers and early-morning risings, b a c k - breaking hoeing and long-hours weeding — this is not everyone’s cup of tea. For many, however, it is a way of making themselves and their children a life full of content and meaning, a return to a more basic, more fundamental society whose significance in these turbulent times is only now beginning to be fully appreciated.

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