Six Ways to Move Forward Even When You’re Afraid

Three Things Every Jew Needs to Hear at the Seder This Year

Antisemitism, war, fear and uncertainty, and a Seder night designed for exactly this moment. Here's how to find meaning, courage and faith at your table.

Sara Yoheved Rigler

The God Factor: From the Exodus to the Iran War

What’s missing from the experts’ predictions about the news.

Passover’s Three Essential Ideas

How the Passover offering, matzah and maror embody Passover’s most important ideas.

Passover and Antisemitism: Three Chilling Insights

The Exodus from Egypt is the world’s oldest case study in antisemitism. Its lessons are alarmingly relevant today.

As if You Personally Left Egypt

You weren’t a slave in Egypt. So what does the Haggadah really mean when it asks you to experience leaving Egypt?

The Powerful Passover Prayer from Bergen-Belsen

Inside a Nazi death camp, starving prisoners composed a prayer that will transform your Passover Seder.

Four Ways to Be Truly Free This Passover

Passover is a personal challenge to break the patterns that are quietly enslaving you.

Hitting the Frog

What the plague of frogs reveals about the patterns we can't seem to break.

These Four Questions Can Help Set You Free

Passover asks one big question: are you free? Here are four ways to find out.

Matzah and the Path to Freedom

Genuine freedom comes not from indulging every desire, but from mastering those desires through purposeful limitation.

Warren Buffet and the Secret of Matzah

The meaning of matzah and the freedom of simplicity.

Why Did God Enslave the Jews?

Asking the unasked question.

Passover’s Impact on the American Story

The Festival of Freedom has shaped the U.S. from the founding era to today.

Passover’s 7 Steps to Personal Freedom

How to break free from your internal subjugation.

Sara Yoheved Rigler

The Purpose of the Exodus

Three central lessons from the Passover story.

Matzah and the Essence of Being a Jew

Exploring the deeper meaning of matzah.

Passover: In the Name of Love

This is the season to experience God's unconditional love.

The Passover Seder’s Most Important Idea

Passover celebrates the concept of a personal God who cares about us and is the ultimate director of history.

Passover’s Message of Hope in the Aftermath of Oct. 7

Rabbi Akiva’s mysterious Passover Seder that is found in the Haggadah yields a relevant insight for today.

Why Did Moses Have to First Fail Before God Freed the Jews in Egypt?

Real Freedom can’t be tainted by political agendas and personal ambition.

6 Passover Lessons to Impart to Your Children

A letter to my children for the Seder.

Haggadah Insights to Share at the Seder

Some meaningful ideas to share with family and guests.

Spiritual Preparation for Passover

12 inspiring ideas about being Jewish to share at your Seder.

Passover’s Message to Iran, Hamas and You

The Jewish People are a nation of miracles.

Fixing the Brokenness

Poignant moments during the Seder where you can directly address the current difficult situation the Jewish People is facing.

Anti-Fragility: The Jewish People’s Resilience During Dark Times

Major setbacks in Jewish history proved to be the springboard for extraordinary new adventures in Jewish spirit and creativity.

Who Was the Pharaoh of the Exodus?

The Torah doesn’t use Pharaoh's actual name. Who was he?

Every Last Crumb

On Passover, the tiniest amount of chametz is prohibited to teach us how important everything, even what seems so small, truly is.

Should The Passover Seder Be Different This Year?

How the Passover Haggadah speaks directly to our current situation, conveying a relevant message of hope and resilience.

Raise a Glass to Freedom

Passover connects Jews through the ages and around the globe by retelling the Jewish People’s ongoing story.

Splitting Your Sea

Life is not about the calm. It’s about the waves.

Sara Yoheved Rigler

Passover: God’s Calling Card

The purpose of the Exodus was to establish a personal, loving relationship between God and the Jewish People, including every individual Jew.

Passover & Jewish Destiny

Matzah symbolizes hope, especially this year.

What’s Your Addiction?

This Passover, I’m experiencing seven days of freedom from my taskmaster. I’m putting my smartphone in my drawer for the entire week.

Matzah: Bread of Affliction, Bread of Liberation

Symbol of slavery or freedom? Exploring the seeming contradictory meanings of this ancient bread.

7 Insights from the Passover Haggadah

Important points you can share at your Seder.

10 Insights to Share at Your Passover Seder

Inspiring thoughts from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Four Transformative Questions to Ask Yourself This Passover

Transformative questions to think about this Passover.

Passover’s 4 Lessons for Today

Practical insights that empower us to stand strong despite the challenges of the pandemic.

Why Did the Majority of Jews Perish in Egypt?

Gaining the determination, courage, and patience to leave behind your personal Egypt.

Sara Yoheved Rigler

Leave the Driving to God

This Passover stop the backseat driving.

The Last Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto

Survivors testify about an epic Seder held in underground bunkers as the Nazis sought to liquidate the last Jews of Warsaw Ghetto.

The Bitter and the Sweet

The fact that we can taste something as bitter is an affirmation of how sweet our lives generally are.

Next Year in Berlin, Ach du Lieber

Eighty-two years after my mother’s hurried departure, my son and his family are moving to Berlin. I’m struggling to accept it.

Changing How We Talk about Politics

And Passover is the perfect time to start.

What Is Freedom?

Yosef Mendelovitch was free even while behind bars in a Soviet prison.

Passover Seder by the Numbers

The number 4 isn’t the only important number at the Passover seder.

The Passover Seder: What Kind of Meal Is This?

The Seder isn’t a feast; it’s a spiritual experience that is as relevant today as it was 3500 years ago.

Where Are You?

On Passover God is anxiously waiting for His children to come home.

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