Pesach 2024/5784
Everything you need to prep for your own liberating Passover seder experience.
Passover is all about going forth from the narrow places that limit us, freeing our bodies, minds, and spirits, and doing it in community. Whether this is your first year hosting a seder or you’ve done it countless times, we hope you’ll find some digital inspiration and guidance for a transformative and meaningful seder experience.
- Celebrate with your family at our Middle School Havdalah Chocolate Seder on Saturday, April 6th or our Family Passover Havdalah on Saturday, April 13th.
- Looking to learn (or relearn) the basics? Join Rabbi Steven for Holy Sh!t It’s Passover on Monday, April 8th where we will go over how to prepare for this holiday, from selling your chametz (aka all that leavened goodness) to cleaning your kitchen.
- Come sing with us at our Pesach Music Jam on Thursday, April 11th.
- Take a deep dive into the ethics of the Passover story with our two-part Small Group: What we don’t tell when we tell the Passover Story on Monday, April 15th and Wednesday, April 24th.
- We have a few seats open at our third annual Learner’s Second Night Seder on Tuesday, April 23rd!
- Learn more about the heroines of the Exodus story in Small Groups: Heroines and Chagim (Passover Edition) on Thursday, April 25th.
Passover Resource Round-Up
Our Favorite Haggadot
- DIY Seder by JEN
- PJ Library
- T’ruah
- Valley Beth Shalom
- Make Your Own
- The Velveteen Rabbi
- JewBelong
- The Jewish Braille Institute
- Seder Interrupted: A Post-October 7 Hagaddah Supplement
- A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah
- Jew Belong: The World’s Most Complicated Dinner Party
- BluePrint Learner’s Haggadah
Prepping for Passover
- Learn the basics from Rabbi Steven by attending Holy Sh!t It’s Passover.
- Sell your chametz!
- Read this article on Approaching This Year’s Seder by Aliza Becker
- Passover Preparations: A Spiritual & Practical Guide — a three-part series with Pardes Institute (it’s alright to attend just one session!)
- Talking Israel at Your Seder with Rabbis Amy Eilberg and Margot Meitner — an intergenerational conversation with T’ruah
- The Conservative Movement’s kashering guide — note that this is the maximalist approach
- Passover Resources from our friends at the Jews of Color Initiative
- 7 Ways To Address October 7th At Your Seder — a guide sheet from Kveller
- Passover Educational Companion — a resource from the iCenter
Music for Your Soul
Get into the Passover spirit with music from Mishkan’s Davening Team — listen on Soundcloud
Seders
- OneTable Resources and Seders — Our partners at OneTable have resources available for those looking to host their own seders.
- Learner’s Second Night Seder — Mishkan’s third annual seder for past and current BluePrint (formerly Exploring Judaism) students has extra seats open! If you find yourself looking for a Second Night Seder, we would love to have you at our table.
- Virtual First Night Seder — an online option with Congregation Rodeph Sholom.
- Community for Our Liberation Seder — a hybrid seder option with Beyt Tikkun on Saturday, April 27th (note that in-person option is in San Francisco!)
Watch our Davening Team perform Min Ha’Metzar, From the Narrows, a traditional song sung during Passover.
Watch the Mensch Academy kids teach the Four Questions. Learn the movements and impress your friends and family (spoiler alert: maROARRR like a lion!)
Want to sell your chametz?
Empower Rabbi Lizzi to sell it for you.