To those who celebrate, chag pesach kasher v’sameach.
Full moon April 2 2026 02:12 UTC
Full moon Nissan 15 5786 05:12 IDT
The Jewish #calendar is lunisolar, aligning phases of the moon with annual seasons. The #fullmoon falls in the middle of the #month.
As a #spring festival, the #Passover full #moon occurs shortly after the #vernalequinox
Pages from The Birds' Head Haggadah c.1300 Israel Museum #199815 via Wikimedia Commons
#passover #timekeeping #astronomy #haggadah #illustration
"This past week, I was fortunate to acquire a particularly handsome example of a work that, while not always widely appreciated outside #bibliophilic circles, deserves to be counted among the most ambitious productions of #nineteenthcentury #Hebrew #printing – the #Trieste #Haggadah of 1863.
Students of #Jewish #art will recognize immediately the significance of this edition. Indeed, the noted art #historian #BezalelRoth went so far as to assert that only one nineteenth-century Haggadah could truly be called groundbreaking in both conception and execution: the #TriesteHaggadah.
Issued under the title #LHaggadaillustrata, the volume presents the Hebrew text alongside a refined #Italian #translation by #Rabbi #AvrahamChaiMorpurgo. The translation is not merely serviceable; it reflects a careful engagement with earlier #machzorim and #Haggadot across several #European traditions, resulting in a text that is both accurate and stylistically polished."
"Is G-d sending simple sons like me a message by making this year’s first #seder night fall on #AprilFools’ Day? It’s hard to ignore the timing. If anything could tempt a #Jewish #atheist to glance up at the heavens and stroke his chin, it’s a cosmic coincidence like this.
The #SimpleSon has always been my favourite seder sibling. The moniker does him no favours. “Simple” does not mean stupid. A mind devoid of thought. That misses what matters most about him. The #Haggadah’s unfairly maligned halfwit is a misunderstood character who sees the rituals around the table and asks the most important question of all: “What is this?”
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/welcome-to-a-sceptical-sons-april-fools-seder/
Happy Pesach!
✡️ #Haggadah #Seder #Passover #Pesach #HappyPassover #Passover2025
This #Passover, some of us will remember enslaved #Uyghurs by placing #cotton balls on our #seder plates. Learn more at
https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/cotton-balls-on-the-seder-plate/
"We were slaves in Egypt
We will not turn away from those who are slaves today
We were redeemed from slavery
We will do our part to help the Uyghurs live in freedom
(Jewish World Watch Uyghur Freedom Seder)"
#Mazeldon #TikkunOlam #Uyghur #slavery #genocide #HumanRights #CivilRights #Haggadah #jewdiverse
By Nechama Liss-Levinson This year, as I celebrate Passover, I will put some cotton balls on the seder plate. Hopefully, as with so much of the seder, our guests will ask the question “why?” Each year, when I host a seder, I hope to make the story of our people’s slavery come alive to our […]
It’s almost Passover! Do you need a radical anti-capitalist anti-Zionist haggadah for your seder? I’ve got you covered comrade! It’s the “SoCal Haggadah,” newly revised, updated, and ready to rock your world. I have PDFs both for printing as a pretty booklet or for reading from a screen/tablet. If the prospect of the usual “God did everything. He chose us and just us. Let’s all praise Him” spiel has you down in these dark and fascist times (which, you know, of course it does) then this is the haggadah for you and your co-conspirators. Have a meal together, read the SoCal Haggadah, and go start a revolution!
https://j-dv.com/zines/socalhaggadah.html
#Passover #haggadah #antizionist #AntiZionistJews #AntiFascism #zine
It is a positive commandment of the Torah to relate the miracles and wonders wrought for our ancestors in Egypt on the night of the 15th of Nissan, as it is written (Exodus 13:3): "Remember this day when you left Egypt," similar to the obligation (Exodus 20:8): "Remember the Sabbath day."
How do we know this is on the night of the 15th? This is taught by the words (Exodus 13:8): "And you shall tell your child on that day, saying: 'It is because of this..." which indicate it is to be done at the time when matzah and marror are placed before you.
This mitzvah applies even when one does not have a child to tell. Even wise sages who know it well are obligated to tell about the Exodus from Egypt. Whoever elaborates upon the events which transpired is worthy of praise.
(Mishneh Torah, Chametz and Matzah 7:1)
#Maimonides #MishnehTorah #Passover #Pesach #Exodus #Seder #Haggadah
I've been working on an alternative haggadah for Passover, but that of courses raises the question: “Why is this haggadah different from all the others? …or, why make yet another one?”
Magic. The answer is magic. But to explain a bit more I wrote an afterword for the haggadah that I thought would be interesting to share on its own.
https://j-dv.com/blog/post/why-is-this-haggadah-different-from-all-the-others
Jennifer Lynn Bartlett
דער קערפער פֿון השם
Frantisek Brikcius
Uyghur Team of Adas Israel
J—dV
Maimonides
Dennis Fischman`
