Dear Lab/Shul,

Purim’s over  — Whew! We did a lot! Check out photos from PurimMESSther here. And click here for pics from our fundraisers for the Sulha Peace Project and Standing Together.

Now that the masks are packed up, it’s time to order your matza — and we’re getting ready for the next big holiday coming up. Passover Seders are on April 22nd and 23rd – we’ve got you covered for preparing for these rituals around your family table at home.

During these difficult days of continued violence and sorrow, with ruptured relationships and tensions growing between friends and family members – this year’s Seders may be very different from all other previous years.

You might be wondering:

How do we prepare for this Passover so that we decrease stress and increase joy and meaning-making, lean into love and raise up our commitment to liberation for all? 

How do we bring this current complexity to Judaism’s oldest sacred storytelling ritual and celebrate our legacy, survival and optimism?

We’ve got you. In recent weeks we’ve worked to edit our SAYDER Insert with four NEW questions to integrate into our Seders and bring you some of our favorite Tablemakers, Storytellers, Healers, and Futurists. Want to learn how to use it? Check out our brand new video and read on to join our prep series – SAYDER 2024.

This Thursday we will launch our new four-part, interactive series to lead you through each of the four new questions, with stellar guests and teachers to help us go deeper. Can’t join us online? No worries. We’ll post these online.

Our first special guest this week is Aliza Kline, CEO and founder of One Table, and beloved Lab/Shul partner, who will help us tackle the first big question – how are we different this year and what can we bring to the Seder table to honor our differences?

WATCH: OUR SAYDER INVITATION TO YOU!

REGISTER FOR SAYDER

We look forward to seeing you online for SAYDER prep, and are here to help you all get ready for Passover with intention, integrity, compassion and care.

Stay tuned for more information on upcoming Passover programs with our partner organizations, more ways to donate and support the situation in Israel and Gaza, and how we can all take part in collective liberation, again and again.

Hope & Healing,
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Co-Founder, Senior Clergy and Spiritual Leader +
Shira Kline, Co-Founder, Spiritual Leader and Director of Family Programming