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Friday, April 21, 1967
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Silver Lining
By Dr. Samuel H. Silver
THE SEDER . . .
The Passover Seder is tjie most
all-inclusive religious ceremony
ever devised. A good way to un
derstand it in its totality is to ex
amine its many aspects in the
light of ideas
suggested by the
mere letters
which make up
the term Pass-
over Seder.
The P ' re
minds us that
every Jew is re
garded as a
priest. No one
has to conduct
the Seder for you; you can do it
yourself. Indeed, everyone around
the table can participate.
The A recalls the lilting Pass-
over anthem, Adir Hu, meaning
Hu (that’s He, God) is Adir,
mighty. We reaffirm our basic
belief that our life has guidelines,
or you might say, Godlines.
The first S in Passover might
represent Supper, indicative of
the fact that even when we eat
we should bear in mind our in
debtedness to the Lord for the
miracle of growth and our debt
to all those who prepare our food
so that we may enjoy it.
The second S in Passover hints
at the fact that although we are
eating we are also sharing in a
Service. We worship in connec
tion with eating; we ea f ,in con
nection with worshipping.
The O means Order, which is
what the Hebrew word, Seder,
means. Unless there is order
liness, system, purpose in our
existence we drift. We must have
a scheduled, disciplined. Order in
our lives, if we are to achieve
anything worthwhile during the
days we spend on earth.
V is for Vegetables, which we
mention in the Four Questions.
The something special which is
Passover is stressed in the re
frain Mah Nishtanah, “What
distinguishes this night from
others?” Even a change of vege
tables is good, so that our pro
cession from day to day will en
joy a change of pace, a deviation
from routinized monotony which
plagues so many of us.
E in Passover may help us to
bear in mind that the Seder is
not only a religious and gastron
omic occasion, but also an Educa
tional one. The Seder is an ex
ample of how to make history
exciting, by relating it in dra
matic fashion. We tell it to our
children, in accordance with the
Bibieal injunction, but we tell
it in a manner designed to in
trigue them.
R brings to mind the lovely
Ritual of the Seder: the bless
ings, the songs, the expressions
of gratitude, the'-embellishments
which lift the occasion to a high
er than humdrum level.
The third S of Passover Seder
may well speak to us of the Sym
bols we use: the matzah, remind
ing us of the meager fare of the
underprivileged; the maror, the
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bitterness of the oppressed; the
parsley, the loveliness of Spring,
when nature is liberated from
the pharaonic grip of winter, etc.
Still another E comes along to
cause us to stress the ethics be
hind the aesthetics of the Pass-
over feast. Don’t enslave others,
Passover says to us. Don’t be a
tyrant. Don’t yield to erroneous
doctrines. Stand up for liberty;
help to create a more moral
society.
And the D in Seder produces a
lilt and a lift if we identify it
with the Dayyenu, a rollicking
melody with a powerful message.
Dayyenu means that we would
still not fret if we are deprived
of some of them. To habituate
ourselves to say Dayyenu, “Even
that would be enough,” may be
the real sign of maturity.
A third E in the words Pass-
over Seder might this year pro
vide a memento that we are in
an Ecumenical Age. But* ecumen
ism requires every Jew to be
able intelligently to expound
Judaism to others who are in
creasingly curious about our
faith.
The final R sings to us of our
need to Rejoice in the splendor
of our doctrine, the goodliness of
our legacy. As we sit around the
Seder table we should stir and
spur ourselves to seek occasions
to celebrate not only the gift of
freedom which is ours, but many
other advantages we possess, not
the least of which is the love of
the members of our family.
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