My Jewish Learning is a great source of resources for Pesach including tips on how to make your seder more memorable, figure out what the seder really means and how to prepare for the festival.

A resource has been produced by RSY-Netzer and LJY-Netzer, the Zionist Youth Movements for Reform and Liberal Judaism, together with Pro-Zion, the Progressive Zionist Organisation in the UK which aims to stimulate discussion about the rights of minority groups in Israel by drawing on core Jewish values taken from the Haggadah. The resource can be downloaded here.

Rabbi Jeremy Gordon of New London Synagogue has prepared a resource for Pesach setting out a user friendly guide to making your home a place where any Jew from any denomination will be happy to eat without going to some of the extremes which you may think necessary.

Click here for more resources including listings of kosher for Pesach products from the Kashrut Division of the London Beth Din.

Sedarim

If you’re looking for somewhere to go, we have a selection of events listed here. The Reform Movement have also put together a list of contacts for communal sedarim. Check out our links to synagogue listings including shuls from all the main streams of Judaism in the UK: Liberal, Masorti, Orthodox and Reform. If you can’t find anything, try contacting your local synagogue directly as they may be able to offer home hospitality or contact us for further assistance.

Also, don’t forget that this year Erev Pesach is extra special. The rabbis of the Talmud tell us that once every 28 years, the sun returns to the same place, same time of day and same day of the week as at the moment of its creation. (Berakhot 59a). This confluence of events, a restaging of the heavens as they were at the beginning of time, was not a moment to be overlooked in the rabbinic imagination. So, they bid us to celebrate this re-enactment of the creation of the sun every 28 years.

At the first rays of sunrise on this day of blessing, we are to go outside, face east and recite:

Blessed are You, Adonai, our God and God of all the universe, who makes all things in creation.

This year it falls at dawn on April 8th, which also happens to be Erev Pesach! Moishe House London invite you to come and celebrate this fantastic, rare and amazingly paganistic element of Judaism.

This Erev Pesach, bring your last crusts of chametz (in a sealed plastic bag) and greet the dawn. The Birkat HaChamah ceremony will be performed out in the garden, before the burning of chametz in preparation for Pesach.

The ceremony will be followed by a short study session and a special celebratory breakfast which, according to Jewish law, exempts first born children from the traditional Fast of the First Born. Details here.

And last but not least you have probably seen this already on Facebook but we like it: A Facebook Haggadah