Celebrating Passover
March 2021 В Keeping Connected
Dear Friends,
Just over a year ago I signed onto a Zoom gathering and said to a screen filled with little boxes: “Mah nishtanah halailah hazeh…? Why is this night different? To these two rhetorical questions I offered some answers.
- “We are not wondering about opening day and Fenway”
- “We are not with family and friends in a physical sense”
- “We are not celebrating the second night seder in our synagogue building for the first time in over 40 years”
- “We may or may not have all the traditional Passover foods in front of us”
- “We are feeling strong emotions and experiencing personal challenges that are new to many of us”
- “We are all learning to use a technology that is new to us”
Ironically that night, I was quickly booted off the internet and could not sign back on without rebooting my router; thereby experiencing a new kind of panic. It was not long after that that I added a new word to my pandemic vocabulary: ethernet cable!More