04/01/2026
FOR OUR PASSOVER TABLES
Dear Friends:
In just a few hours, we will gather around our tables and begin again. It’s a time that arrives each year with its familiar rhythms. The foods, the questions, the melodies. And yet, each year, we come to it as different people, carrying a different world with us into the room.
This year, many of us are holding a great deal. There is fear in places that once felt stable. There is pain in Israel, where too many still live with uncertainty and the need to run for shelter. There is a sense, close to home, that the ground beneath our shared life is less steady than it once was. And still, we gather.
Because this is what our community does. We make a table. We tell a story. We create order in the midst of a world that can feel disordered. Not because everything is resolved, but because something deeper holds.
I want to offer you a short reading to bring to your table tonight. You might share it before Kiddush, or before Maggid, or whenever the moment feels right. A way to name both where we are, and who we are.
Wishing you and your families a meaningful, grounding, and hopeful seder.
Chag Kasher v’Sameach,
Daniel S. Kaiman
Rabbi
