Seder Intro

Last Wednesday, my family celebrated the Passover feast (called "seder" in Hebrew). We invited my best friend, Joanna; another friend, Ruth; Haye (a volunteer from Holland who is helping my sister and dad in MegaVoice); Sophie (Danny's sister who was staying in my parent's house that week); and a Russian family (Vitally & Rusina and their two sons; Ben and Omri).

The meal consists of reading the Haggada which is a book with scripture portions, other anecdotes, songs, and ceremonial descriptians. Depending on how much of the ceremony you do, the ceremony can take up to 5-6 hours. Ours started a little late (at around 19:30) and ended around 22:30 (including the meal in the middle). We used a new Messianic Haggada this year which cut portions of the regular haggada out and added New Testament readings of Jesus and his disciples celebrating the passover and Jesus being the atonement lamb. Even so, we had to cut out much of the Rabbi's interpretations which were left in there or the meal/ceremony would have lasted much longer.

Part of the seder involves drinking 4 wine/grapejuice glasses and the instructions are to lean to the left (probably due to the fact that the initial seders were done laying on pillows by a low table).

Here Tehila, Joanna and I are drinking one of these cups "leaning" to the left.