By the time you read this, you might already be elbows-deep cleaning and kashering a cooking pot. Or sweeping under furniture and finding unexpected Cheerios. Or feeling the low-key internal panic about meal planning.

That’s how this season goes, right?

Passover has this power to take up mental, physical, and spiritual space, not just on our counters and in our cabinets, but also in our bodies and minds. It holds both the past, the present, and the future all at once.

There’s memory, there’s mitzvot, there’s meaning, and then there’s the moment when you realize you haven’t figured out what to do with your frying pan.

I can help you with that last part.

I made a video on how to kasher your kitchen for Passover.​
It’s simple, clear, and meant to help you reclaim this process as something doable, maybe even meaningful.
👉 Watch it here on YouTube​

But I’ll be honest, this year, the cleaning and kashering doesn’t feel like the hard part.

For many of us, it is the weight of the world pressing in. How can we celebrate Passover with hostages still being held? How can we celebrate when our government is sending innocent people into bondage?

Honestly, I don’t know exactly how to hold all of that.

This year, I’m letting go of trying to make it make sense. I’m just going to hold it all at the same time. I’m going to remember that Judaism has a blessing we recite for release from captivity: Blessed is God, who frees the captive. This dynamic has been known to our people.

What I do know is that we all have a role in this world.

To insist on the inherent value and humanity of every single person.
To insist that justice requires truth and that peace can come only in relationship with justice.
To insist that while we’re in the narrow place now, we remember that hope comes from this difficult place.

We will tell a story of moving from oppression to redemption, and it will remind us that this is an ongoing process, and we aren’t done yet.

I wish you a meaningful Passover,
Jeremy

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