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ENOUGH – Dayenu, Can we sing it this Year?

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Rabbi Nico Socolovsky Leave a comment

The seder is the tool we use to assure that we are never going back to the land of narrowness. Passover invites us to look at our sometimes difficult realities through a lens of potential and prosperity. “Dayenu,” is not a song of conformism but a profound act of defiance. It is a reminder that even when surrounded by adversity, we must cling to the sparks of light we find. In the spirit of “Dayenu,” we celebrate what we have, because that is the premise for us to be able to walk the walk of redemption today.

Do you want to be moved?

Posted on April 15, 2022 by Rabbi Nico Socolovsky Leave a comment

In every generation, one must see oneself as if one had personally experienced the Exodus from Egypt. As it is written: “You shall speak to your children on that day, saying, this is how the Holy Blessed One redeemed me from Egypt. Isn’t it puzzling that despite the horrors and hardship of slavery, the children of Israel weren’t eager to

Open your Haggadah, your mind and your heart and pour out your love!

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Rabbi Nico Socolovsky One comment

So, let’s start by thinking about the methodology and the idea behind the Seder. This, the seder, night will be a very interesting collage and representation of our fantasies as well as our way of life, and by that I mean ethics and values and finally who we want to be, our vision and our dreams. If you look at

(RE) Thinking Passover, Just Come!

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Rabbi Nico Socolovsky Leave a comment

Which messages do you have graven in your mind? What things have you renounced, perhaps you miss, perhaps you’re not sure where you left? Could your Jewish identity be one of those things? Are you possibly about to lose the Passover Seder? If we could stop time for a second, I’d love to think with you about identity! It is

Passover A Fairy Tale? You Shall Tell Your Children

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Rabbi Nico Socolovsky Leave a comment

There is no doubt that the Exodus has a folklorical meaning. The Exodus is an ethos of our identity and we remember it routinely in our prayers and blessings as a seminal event in our consolidation as the People of Israel. However in Passover we have the opportunity to deepen in the Exodus and this is also probably the