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Our son first met his distant cousin when they were both students in advanced Jewish studies programs abroad. As they returned home from the study hall together on the last day of winter, they began comparing notes on how their father did the Passover cedar.
They were shocked to discover that their longtime family recited many of the Passover Lagagadas and chanted the stories recited during the celebratory meal on the same but vague tune. Their great grandfathers were separated by the World War and forced to migrate over a century ago, but not only their faith, but even the shared religious flavour and music of the family homes, were brought to life four generations later.
This is surprising, but it's not uncommon. That's why Jews everywhere place such emphasis on bringing together their families around this Passover.
Long quarantined families recited many of the Passover postal gags, and the stories recited during the celebration meals recited in the same beautiful but obscure tune. (istock)
This assumption is woven into the very Passover story, as Sedar commemorates the night before Moses led the Jews from Egypt. Instead of departing directly from the fields and construction sites where they worked, God insisted that they could first spend that night in the family home, where they could serve meals of lambs and goats sacrificed there, and devote their flocks.
Passover reminds us why rituals are important
They were in their homes around the tables of new families, God and God would find them. Rather than temples or synagogues, homes are environments where the foundations of faith are laid, and are environments that replicate each year in the desire to perpetuate that faith in order to ensure that future generations continue their traditions.
What does the future hold for our traditions and religion in America? This unforgettable question gnaws on clergy and parents in the faith community. Research continues to show a severe decline in attendance in religious services across many faiths and sects. Even this steady decline seen in recent Pew's religious landscape studies is clearly short-term, as the data demonstrates an overwhelming gap in religious observance between younger and older Americans. How do you deal with this decline?
Much must be achieved through fascinating and relevant religious services, programs, teaching, and truly caring, moral and inspiring faith leaders. Clergy and institutions cannot allow themselves to become old or outdated, and instead must promote the truth and tradition of faith along with fresh and persuasive ideas and experiences.
But as decades of research have shown, the more influential predictor of our children's religious future is the extent to which we weave our faith into the fabrics and atmospheres of our homes and families.
Forget the cancellation culture. Accepting Passover culture
This is what we found to have discovered that even among those who reported being Orthodox Judaism, most of them reported continuing to maintain rituals, traditions and customs observed at home, they found that they found that they had maintained a warm taste and taste emotion and found that they found that they had found that they had maintained a warm taste and taste emotion.
The youngest person in Cedar asks four questions (Mashtana). (istock)
For example, those who violate the Orthodox Sabbath norms by driving or using a mobile phone are chanting Friday night blessings in wine and coloured breads and eating Passover cedar. How much connections are fake at home should lead parents to ensure that religious family life is warm, complete, meaningful, and positive associations that strengthen religious bonds.
Houses of worship, religious schools and institutional homes create a permanent framework for faith, creating a permanent framework for worship, and conveying the fundamental truths of religion, but the most important homes of faith are our own homes.
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The ancient Talmud teachings point to the fact that the altars of the daily temples are replaced by dining room tables where families and others are welcomed and cared for, and that we sing the joys of God's praise and faith, and that the table teaches and explores the Torah and its values.
It is our Cedar Table, our family table, and if we play it right, we plant seeds to perpetuate our faith and our Father's faith, and the place where the songs of faith we sing today resonate for generations.
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