Congregation Mishkan Israel

Tonight begins Yom Hashoah v’HaGevurah - The Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Heroism. We light a candle this evening to honor the six million souls whose light was extinguished. And we lift up the stories of those who resisted and were resilient. May their memories continue to be for a blessing.

As we prepare our seder plates for Passover this year, Cantor Fox invites us to consider some additional implications of the salt water in our seder and in our world. You can read her teaching in T'ruah’s (M)Oral Torah series here:

https://truah.org/resources/pesach-what-could-be-so-important-about-salt-moral-torah-sierra-fox/

May all of your seders be full of joy even as we hold our sadness, and may next year find us in safer, more peaceful, more just times!

Pesach: What could be so important about salt? | T'ruah I recently asked a group of religious school students what their favorite Passover food was. Unsurprisingly, many answered with the usual suspects: matzah ball soup, chocolate-covered matzah, and so on. But a few shouted out a surprising answer: parsley dipped in salt water. While perhaps an odd cho...

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