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Pesach (Passover)
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Please Join Our
Bet Alef Community
Seder
Led by Rabbi Ted
Falcon
with participation from Rev. Don Mackenzie & Muslim Sufi Minister
Jamal Rahman; Guest Musician Stephen Merritt,
with Shira Firestone and Shari Rosner
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Sunday, April 20th, 5:30 PM
At University Congregational UCC
4515 16th Ave. NE, Seattle 98105
There will be a Family Passover Seder led
by our Rabbinic Intern Olivier BenHaim
Saturday April 26, 6 – 8 PM
For more information & to register contact Olivier
 Our Community Seder allows us to
celebrate together the journey from places of stuckness and limitation, and
commit ourselves to our own next steps. We share the traditional symbols
and story to discover anew their meaning in our own lives this year.
Registration
Information >>
Reminders / Details:
- Our Seder meal is catered,
advance registration is necessary.
- Bring your own Wine or
juice and corkscrew
- We will be accepting
donations of non-perishable food items for the Jewish Family Services
Food Bank.
- No tickets will be mailed;
there will be a place card provided for each participant.
- Services begin promptly at 5:30 PM, so please plan to arrive by 5:00 PM
Directions:
UCUCC 4515 16th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105
Located at the corner of 15th Ave & 45th St in the University District
- From I-5 take Exit 169 toward NE 45th St/University of Washington
- Drive East on 45th St (approximately 1/2 mile)
- Turn left on 16th Ave NE
- The church will be on your left (brick building)
Parking:
Parking will be widely available this year. UCUCC has two free reserved parking lots in addition to parking in the U-District and UW campus (free on Sundays).
Parking locations are as follows:
- Accross the street from the main entrance to UCUCC on 16th Ave NE
- On 15th Ave between 45th & 46th St
- UW Lot N1 at the Burke Museum (enter at 17th Ave NE)
- Street parking in the U-District
Intro from Rabbi Ted's Haggadah:
The PASSOVER SEDER is meant to provide a form to support our journey from
slavery to freedom. But no mere repetition of words will suffice. We are
asked to enter the journey experientially; to awaken to our own slavery,
and to choose our own freedom.
Each year, we are given
this opportunity to release ourselves from the slavery of old patterns and
beliefs. Awakening to the stuck places in our lives begins the journey to a
fuller sense of self. Each of us has responsibility for our unique piece of
creation, but only from the deeper wisdom and compassion of our greater
Self can we truly care for the world that is entrusted to us.
We seek to release any sense
of blame for that which has been, that we might perceive more clearly the
meaning and purpose behind the life we have lived. We seek to support the
unfolding that is about to be.
We respond today to an
ancient challenge: to remember, to tell, and to live this continuing
journey. “And Moses said to the people: Remember this day, in which you
came out from Egypt,
out of the house of bondage, for with great strength the Eternal One
brought you out, so you shall eat no leaven.” (Exodus 13:3) “So you shall
tell your children on that day, saying: We eat unleavened bread because of
what the Eternal One did for me when I came out from Egypt.” (Exodus 13:7, 8) “Egypt”
in Hebrew is Mitzrayim, which literally refers to “places of constriction
and limitation.” Mitzrayim becomes a metaphor for all the enslavements we
meet.
We begin this journey
with a symbolic meal called a Seder. Our Seder is the “order” of ritual
acts, blessings, readings and songs that has evolved over thousands of
years. We gather as a community with a shared intent: to begin a journey
from Mitzrayim toward a Promised Land, from slavery to freedom; to tell the
story of an ancient Exodus and to write our own stories of an exodus that
begins even now.
Please join
us...everyone welcome! Registration Information
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