Shalom Friends!
We encourage you to have a home seder to experience for the first time, or once again, the beauty and meaning of this holiday. We wanted to provide resources for you to have a seder in your home. While just the beginning of what you can find online, we pray that these links provide you with a great starting point for your celebration of Passover this year.
L’shana haba’ah b’Yerushalayim!
Learn About Passover
Before you begin your Passover planning, here are some resources to help you learn more about the history of the holiday and its traditional observance.
- Chosen People Ministries has an extensive selection of articles on Passover. Click on “Passover” to see the entire collection
- Learn why it’s important to have your seder on the 15th of Nisan from First Fruits of Zion
- Let My People Go – How the exodus from Egypt is the Torah’s clearest picture of salvation and how it works from First Fruits of Zion
- Passover Devotionals from Jewish Voice
Host a Passover Seder
In this time of crazy grocery stores and concern for tomorrow, take this opportunity to embrace the process of collecting your items for your seder plate. Thankfully, there is not a run on matzah like there is on toilet paper. However, now is the time to start gathering your non-perishable items, like matzah and horseradish, as you use up the rest of the items with leaven in your pantry. Make the best with what you can get and plan to have family join you via facetime or skype.
- Get a visual explanation of what’s on a Seder table with the Interactive Passover Seder from Chosen People Ministries
- Messianic Passover Preparation Guide from Jewish Jewels
- Video: The Passover Seder-What to Expect
- Video: What Goes On a Seder Plate & How to Make One!
Passover Haggadahs You Can Purchase
If you want to order professionally printed Haggadahs, you’ll need to order soon to get them in time for your seder:
- Messianic Jewish Passover Haggadah: Celebrating Our Redemption! A full color haggadah from Rabbi Elliot Klayman & Rabbi Michael Schiffman. Available on Amazon.
- The Messianic Passover Haggadah from Messianic Jewish Publishers. Available on Amazon
- Dayenu!: A Passover Haggadah for Families and Children. Available on Amazon.
- Traditional Passover Haggadah – Most basic Haggadah with Hebrew & English , but no transliterations. Available on Amazon.
Passover Haggadahs You Can Download
If you want to download and print your own Haggadahs, there are a wide array of them available for free online. These are ones that are specifically Messianic.
- Messianic Family Haggadah from Chosen People Ministries.
- Messianic Passover Haggadah from Jewish Jewels
Seder Plates, Matzah Tashes, and Elijahs Cups, Oh My!
When it comes to “pretty things” to use for your seder, there is a wide selection in a range of price points that you can purchase. The teaching of Hiddur Mitzvah says that we should strive to make our fulfillment of a mitzvah as beautiful as we can. When God commanded the Israelites to make his tabernacle in the wilderness, it wasn’t just functional, it was beautiful! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and doesn’t have to mean expensive. You can find a beautiful plate and wine glass at the Dollar Store and use them for your Passover Seder.
- Shop at our Judaica shop for a large selection of Passover items
Passover Songs
If this is your first time hosting a Seder, you may be unfamiliar with some of the songs that are sung. There are as many variations of these songs as there are sand on the seashore. We’ve created a playlist of songs on YouTube that sing the traditional melodies (mostly).
