Ta Shma

Ethan Tucker. We often imagine that Pesach is a celebration of our exodus from slavery into freedom. But the Torah actually emphasizes that leaving Egypt was a process of going from one form of slavery to another. Challenge your notions of the purpose of freedom as we mine Rabbinic sources for insight. Recorded in March 2015.

Listen as Hadar faculty members Elie Kaunfer, Dena Weiss, Aviva Richman, Shai Held, and Avi Killip explore the deeper meanings and wisdom found in the pages of the Haggadah. Recorded live in 2016.

Ethan Tucker. There is no moment that is more intensely about the "we" of being Jewish than the Seder. Jews all over the world narrate our story in the first person on Passover, literally reconstructing our identity and purpose each and every year. And precisely for that reason, the Seder is an evening where so many Jews have the instinct to share this story with others and to bring that first person narrative to a larger community of enthusiasm and support. Which is it? Can it be both? We will explore this question by examining sources about non-Jewish attendance at a Seder and how to think about the competing values behind the details. Come join us as you prepare your own Seder table and the guests who will sit around it. The 2019 Annual Jerome L. Stern Pre-Pesah Lecture.