In the 106th episode of The Couples Expert Podcast Stuart’s topic is the Easter and Passover holidays that we’re celebrating this week. This year Passover began on Tuesday and Easter is Sunday. Stuart and his wife Debbie have an interfaith marriage where they support each other in their respective religious practices and celebrate both Jewish and Christian holidays with each other and their extended family. Listen in as Stuart talks about what an interfaith Passover/Easter celebration looks like at the Fensterheim household.

How special it is that families that come together to celebrate their diverse beliefs, and what a blessing it is to have our elders together with our extended family. We have a wonderful opportunity to take lessons from the past and apply them to today. Not all families are as fortunate. Stuart wants to share what this is like for his family.

“Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in synch like the ice skating pairs you see during the winter Olympics”

Easter and Passover bring the thread of the past into the present. When we observe what our forefathers had to endure and how they persevered and triumphed. We get to celebrate that this strength and dedication and how essential it is to us as a people. Celebrating this in the Jewish faith means that we keep the story alive through the retelling it to our children so they can pass it along to their kids and on through the generations to keep these lessons alive.

What you’ll learn from today’s Podcast:

• Passover and the reason why we eat unleavened bread [3:23]
• Kosher for the Passover Seder [4:20]
• Easter and spring time [7:10]
• The lessons we learn about love in these traditions [8:43]
• Celebrate love [9:35]
• The empty chair and freedom [10:54]
• The questions of the young [12:53]
• Stories and feasting [13:55]

View the full show notes here