Chabad Times newspaper, April 2000

I Chabad Times Apr. 2000/Nissan 5760 Published by Chabad of Southern Nevada Vol. VIII No. 3 As The Matzah With the high cost of Passover Matzah, we would expect each Matzah to be perfectly whole and unbroken. Of course, given Matzah's fragile nature, we forgive some breakage in transit, but we try to prevent shatter-ing, and certainly wouldn't want to break a Matzah intentionally. It is therefore surprising that the Seder begins with a ceremony called 'Yachatz,' when we actually take the central Matzah and break it! We place half of it aside, hiding it for the Afikoman eaten at the end, while the main part of the Seder and the blessings focus on this bro-ken piece of Matzah. So now the (fifth) ques-tion arises: Why are we instructed to damage and break a good Matzah, and be left using s o m e t h i n g incomplete and ? ^t imperfect as our Seder * a^ ^ centerpiece? 'BREAKING OF BREAD' Basically, this unusual 'breaking of bread' is meant to symbolize our ancestor's affliction in Egyptian bondage. Our forefathers had to break up and ration their meals, eat-ing just a little bit now so they could save the rest for later. So this Matzah is really what it's cracked up to be. But that was back then in Egypt What's Inside? The Fifth Cup 2 The Good Plague of the Frogs . .3 American Haggadah 4 Prepare for Flight 4 A Family Affair 7 We're OK . .9 The Milky Way 10 Kosher Maven .11 Oil on Troubled Waters 12 Secret of Success 14 The 3 Visits of Elijah 15 Holiday Guide Food for Thought under the Pharaohs. What about us today, living in an era of abundance? Thank G-d, we are not relegated to crumbs and morsels, so how can we fully relate to a broken Matzah? True, the economy is going full steam ahead, but that's only half the story. Using the Matzah as a circular pie chart graph of the Jewish commu-nity, we realize that we're only half of what we should be. THE BREAKDOWN Affiliated Jews comprise only part of the whole, while too many of us remain unaffiliated. Assimilation is tak-ing a real big bite out of us, and it is truly heart-breaking. Knowing the problem is half the solution. Half a century ago Jewish identity was taken for grant-ed. A general feeling of fami-ly and commu-nity united us with a mini-mum of obser-vance and com-mitment. But today we fully realize that it takes more than bagels and lox to remain Jewish, and Fiddler-on-the Roof nostalgia is too precarious to sustain tradition. A half-hearted involvement is not strong enough to withstand the lures and temptations of open society. THE HALVES & THE HALVE-NOTS Indeed, affiliated Jews are them-selves further divided between the Halves and the Halve-nots. The Halves are quite content to think as if they are the whole world, and look inward to save only their own. Let us rather be Halve-nots, who are not satisfied to know there's real-ly something missing. We must love and care for all our brethren, affiliat-ed or not. We are all part of the whole and responsible for each other. We must remember how the other half lives, and go for broke to reach out and share the beauty of Judaism. HALF FULL Lefs think optimistic, and rather than view the Matzah as half empty, lefs see the Matzah as half full, for each person is a full world! (Talmud Sanhedrin 46). A fulfilling and wholesome Mitzvah involve-ment assures our continuity, and will prevent our Matzah from any further crumbling. We have become so seg-mented and frag-mented, that it will be hard work to pick up the pieces. Let us search high and low to find that h i d d e n Afikoman, that treasured but elu-sive element of unity and Ahavat Yisrael, full and u n c o n d i t i o n a l love for a fellow Jew. It brings the whole Seder together, and makes us com-plete once again! Best wishes for a happy, kosher and fulfill-ing Passover, and may we merit the full and final R e d e m p t i o n , speedily in our days. ?2000 Rabbi Israel Rubin Illustration from the Darmstadt Haggadah, Germany, late 15th century Beyond Matzah Balls and Borsht Dear Friends: Passover is such a rich and wonderful Holiday, with its special foods, and the gathering of family and friends. But the essence of Passover is really the telling of the story. We relive the experience of our Exodus from Egypt by reading it and retelling it, from generation to generation. But just reading the Haggadah can become boring, which is why people tend to turn the pages, hoping to get over with it already so they can get to the food... This special Passover issue is actually an enriched and updated Haggadah that makes the story even more meaningful, relevant and exciting! Our columnists share their personal thoughts and experiences, so we can view Passover from different angles and perspectives. We hope you enjoy this issue and we wish you all a very Happy and Kosher Passover, Sincerely, Rabbi Shea Harlig, Rabbi Yisroel Schanowitz, Rabbi Mendy Harlig Distribution: Direct mailed 5 times a year to over 3,000 homes in Las Vegas, NV Chabad of Southern Nevada NON-PROFIT ORG. 1261 South Arville St. U.S. POSTAGE Las Vegas, NV 89102 PAID (702) 259-0770 PERMIT NO. 447 www.cb C,GAS, NV ?2000 Jewish Holiday Consumer. Contents may not be copied without written permission of publisher. The Fifth Cup Adapted from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe by Ben Moshe Passover overflows with meaning, as we ceremoniously make a blessing over each of the Seder's Four Cups. But the "Cup of Elijah" stands like an odd man out. This cup remains untouched to the end, when we pour its wine back into the bottle. Is this 'fifth cup' an unneeded 'fifth wheel'? CHILDISH IMAGINATION? The children watch the quivering liquid, hoping to detect a sign of its sampling by the visiting Prophet. But is it just a child's imagination? Are we just 'playing pretend' with the Prophet? It may be thoughtful to offer Elijah a drink, but thank you; he does-n't need sips to keep him going. While the original Four Cups remain anonymous, tradition has named this cup after a great prophet. How ironic that this quiet and passive cup's namesake is the fiery, bold and outspoken Elijah! ELIJAH THE ARBITER The Gaon of Vilna explains that "Elijah" refers to the Prophet Elijah, the final arbiter who will resolve all Talmudic stalemates. In the Talmud, Rabbi Tarfon prescribes a Fifth Cup while the other sages do not. So our 'Fifth Cup' awaits Elijah's verdict deciding between Rabbi Tarfon versus the Sages. But why must we wait for Elijah's decision? Isn't it an established princi-ple that the majority overrules a singu-lar opinion? EXPRESSIONS OF REDEMPTION The Four Cups reflect the 'Four Expressions of Redemption:' "I will take you out...I will deliver you... I will redeem you and I will acquire you." (Exodus 6:2-8) But these verses are fol-lowed by a Fifth expression: "I will bring you into the land." When Jews actually lived in the Promised Land with the Holy Temple, there may have indeed been five cups. But after being exiled from our home-land, we lost the observance of the Fifth Cup, lacking fulfillment of the Fifth Expression. Yet this special cup remained on the Seder table to express our prayers, hopes and yearning for the ultimate Redemption, which will ful-fill "I will bring you into the land." ELIJAH THE HERALD The Fifth Cup is not for Elijah's sake but rather for our own sake. It demonstrates t h a t 'Redemption' is not merely an abstract con-cept or wishful fantasy. Our belief in Moshiach and Redemption is real and relevant, a pillar of the Thirteen Principles of Jewish Faith. Elijah's Cup takes the mystical concept of Moshiach out of the closet, and places it on the table for all to see. Maimonides teaches that our belief in Moshiach is not passive, but belongs on our daily agenda, to anticipate the Redemption, which is actually acceler-ated by our prayers and yearning. This fifth cup is presently beyond our reach; but we open the door to Elijah, awaiting his heralding of the Redemption. "Behold I send to you Elijah the Prophet before the great and awesome Day. He will return the hearts of children to their parents and parents to their c h i l d r e n . " (Malachi 3:23) The very presence of this special cup makes a power-ful statement. Not merely a question of Halachic detail, it represents our perseverance, future vision and destiny as a people. NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM! Even now when we thank G-d have Israel, we know that there is more and better to come. Israel is Divine blessing, haven and protection, but it has yet to realize the true peace of the Messianic ideal. We take pride in Israel's miracu-lous victories and achievements, but realize that it is still threatened by the dubious processes and schemes of its enemies. Artwork by Michoel Muchnik indeed a place of When cel-e b r a t i n g Passover in J e r u s a l e m today, we e x c l a i m "Next Year In Jerusalem," and even while praying at the Kotel, we plead for the Rebuilding of Jerusalem. Beautiful and impressive, the Kotel is only one of four outer walls to see its true glory. Without fully 'arriving in the land,' we haven't fully arrived, and cannot yet drink the fifth cup. FORWARD! Unfortunately, once they close the door on Elijah, people think the Seder is over, and tend to doze off or clear the table. On the contrary! At this point the Seder turns the corner to the future, rising to a crescendo as it approaches grand finale of Redemption. The Seder doesn't just look back to the ancient Pharaoh and the Pyramids; we also look forward to our own Redemption. Elijah's cup is not peripheral, but cen-tral to our celebration. We relive the Exodus from Egypt through Moses, but focus on the ultimate Redemption t h r o u g h M o s h i a c h , speedily in our days. Farm-Fresh " ' " V - ' <- fr**? . I ?? ? -'ir1-- ? i n spp? ??x t | ^ ^ W ^ w T p f ~ d - j f t f L*111*t>? ? 1 1 1 4 1 ? k v > 1 1 L * i ? ^ ( I * t n - - ? ? ?. ?1; .' ??? - "v , ??' ? ? ' -Si ?< :;f s.tJf- ^ . i ? ? t ?V : .- _ V ' ? . t. V ? SI ? .i " ?<? . v ? ?' . ; '_<j , . .... . i i l i S u r a l t t r a f y l p L -|g.w t i n ir B U S I I \ H The Good Plague of Frogs by D. Levine People who think that Jewish adulthood happens at Bar or Bat Mitzvah may be misin-formed. I contend that the chores of cleaning the house for Passover should really be used as the true test of attaining Jewish adulthood. Clean, clean, and clean, and then, when you can barely stand on your feet from exhaustion, begin to prepare foods and dishes to host twenty plus people for a Seder. Since my mother-in-law unceremoni-ously handed me the Passover pots, pans, dishes, silverware, chopping bowls and other utensils I didn't recognize, I realized that I had come of age. But in the middle of all this hard labor and organized chaos, let's not forget that the main focus of Pesach is to transmit and pass the wonderful story down to our children. The whole point of the Haggadah story is to make us feel that we, personally, are experi-encing the Exodus. So with all the work we have to do, let's remember to see the forest through the trees. Doesn't the Haggadah itself state that it is 'praiseworthy' to expand on the Story? Obviously, we are being encour-aged to enrich the Seder with a little per-sonal input and some local color. Pesach has become high drama in my house, an extra little theatrical flourish that began pretty innocently. One year I came across this big inflatable frog. I had this creative inspiration and made the Passover connection in my mind. 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Being the mature adults we are?the competition began, and before long we had frogs here, frogs there, frogs ever} w h e r e , j u s t l i Our friends and family have gotten into the spirit by bringing along gifts of frog socks, frog ties and a frog salad bowl. This annual ritual gets us all in the spirit, but it doesn't end there. At the Seder, we always have guests who have different levels of Jewish knowl-edge. I o n they had in Egypt! I raised the ante, and we now have frog lights, frog puppets, frog straws, and a saltwater dish with a frog perched on it. Not to be "out-frogged" (a new Passover word we've coined), my sibling has frog dishes, a frog pillowcase for the reclining pillow, and frogs that hop across the table. want anyone at the Seder table to feel left out. After all, we all wan-dered in the desert together, so there has to be some common denomina-tor between us. That's how we expanded into puppets. One day I saw an advertisement for Passover puppets in a magazine. I was immediately sold on it and ordered them. Now, we don't substitute the puppet show for the traditional Seder, we just add the puppets into the nar-rative as they fit into the story. First I used the kids as an excuse. "Let's watch the puppet show, so the children will get to understand what's going on." But truth be told, once my kids reached the age of six or seven, they already knew what was going on (thanks to their Day School education). But some of our adult guests seemed to enjoy actually participating in the Seder, rather than just sitting around there waiting to eat. They liked the opportunity to act ? to be part of the story and really feel what it was like to escape from Egyptian slavery. Then one year, my brother-in-law arrived with a King Pharaoh costume, fully bedecked in a black and white el, with a necktie tied around head like Pharaoh's kafiah. His voice boomed as he bellowed with authority, "No, Moses! Your peo-ple cannot go!!" We all sat there mes-merized by my seemingly shy in-law's portrayal of the major Passover villain. Looking around my Seder table, I noticed how everyone was so fully engaged in the holiday experience. Now, nobody was nudging about when dinner was going to be served! Suddenly, all the parts of my body that had been aching from all the cleaning and cooking and schlepping began to feel better. I realized that through meeting people at their own level, we found a common ground that made the holiday meaningful to us all. by Stuart Eizenstat We each have our own special Seder memories. Mine began as a young child when we all assembled around Aunt Ida's dining room table. Steeped in Judaic knowledge, my father Leo conducted the Seder entirely in Hebrew. The women, including my mother, Sylvia, weren't expected to join the Haggadah's rapid recitation. My father strongly emphasized the verse that each gener-ation must feel person-a 1 1 y redeemed from Egypt. The time- 1 e s s Haggadah has a timely message. When I married my wife, Fran, had children, Jay and Brian, and began to lead my own Seders, first in Atlanta, later in Washington, I was determined to have a more participatory Seder, but retained the rich flavor of those my father led. I worked hard each year, drawing on various sources and inter-pretations. My most memorable Seder was when President Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter joined us. At the part when we welcome Elijah, I rose to open the front door, but a Secret Service agent jumped up and stopped me. The door could not be opened for security rea-sons. I finally persuaded him to open another door- the only time I relegated T w r w w t K i i DR.BROWN'S ~0nrMdtay0at~ I) CELERY ATONIC i g i m g A A> Ajyd r r - r CM ??? ?1 r s " * r ? 7*r- xi r e t y **y; 7* M WALTER J. DANZ rrrsa n r? r" ?M MIT IM ? ? ?Ml, ?>. V. Elijah to the back door. What accounts for the Seder being, by far, the most observed American Jewish practice? A seminal event, the Exodus shaped Judaism as an enduring reli-gion. It created our community of shared values, and began the process of Jewish destiny. It led to the Ten Commandments at Sinai and the Torah that made us sensitive to the dis-advantaged, the poor and the stranger- "for we were strangers in Egypt." Passover's message of freedom influenced our republic's struggle for independence, and our emerging nation's leadership cited the Israelite exodus as a historical model. In 1776, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams wanted to portray Moses leading Israel through the Red Sea on the Great Seal of the United States, with the motto "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to G-d." Thomas Jefferson made it his personal seal. Passover togetherness meant much to this country's early Jewish settlers. Gershom Mendes Seixas, Chazzan of New York's Shearith Israel Congregation, fled to Philadelphia with his family when the British occu-pied New York during the Revolutionary War. After the war, he was expected to return to his New York position by Passover. In a letter to the synagogue president he said that if necessary, he would come himself, but noted that "it is difficult for a man to leave his family for Pesach." m r? Haggadot were once imported from England, until the United States started printing local Haggadahs in 1837. Two 1815 Haggadot bear the names of the Levy family who lived at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello after the death of Commodore Uriah P. Levy who purchased Monticello from Jefferson's heirs. Those wine stained Haggadahs bear witness to the Jewish Pesach celebra-tion at this famous American landmark. The "George Washington Seder" in 1889 marked the cen-tennial of Washington's inaugu-ration. Free pictures of Washington at the door awaiting Elijah were given for each ten pound Matzah purchase. What an integration of Americana Judaica! The Seder was widely observed in the U.S military during the World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and during the Persian Gulf War, when the largest Seder was held for 400 Jewish personnel on a Navy ship off Bahrain. The Haggadah context has related to American political issues, from the advocacy of blacks' and migrants' rights to women's suffrage. Our Seder's expressed solidarity with Soviet and Ethiopian Jews, binding us to our brothers and sisters around the world, energizing us to work for their freedom. It gave an enormous boost to the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and collapse of the Soviet Union, throwing off their yokes of oppression. Quickly followed by the Torah at Mt. Sinai, Passover's freedom is not just a free-for-all. It comes with responsibility. American Jews often abuse freedom of Religion by aban-doning it and melting into the jxr it I k ? A f t j f r^PMh'^i a-, flf bti? / yi American landscape. Indeed, our greatest challenge is not the ancient external anti-semitism but the internal. enemy of apathy and assimilation. We can be both good Americans and good Jews; America doesn't demand assimilation as price for acceptance. Indeed, we add to the American mosaic by strengthening and deepening our Jewish ties. Stuart Eizenstat was President Carter's domes-tic policy adviser. An attorney practicing in Washington, he is a leading advocate far Jewish edu-cation. This article is excerpted from his introduction to the American Heritage Haggadah. everal years ago I had returned from a busi-ness trip to find what ^ appeared to be a pizza ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ box on my desk at work. Peering into the box, I was sur-prised that instead of pizza I found the biggest matzah I had ever seen. I later discovered that it was a spe-cially baked hand made Shmura matzah, that was sent to me courtesy of my (now) best friend Rabbi Vogel. To paraphrase Humphrey Bogart, that Matzah was "...the start of a beautiful relationship." By Steven Hyatt Prepare for Flight Over the next several years I found Passover to be an exciting spiritual journey, seated at the Vogel's joyous Seder table, singing, laughing, eating and retelling the story of Pesach with friends. Last year my career took me away from Delaware, and the Vogel's Seder table, when I transferred to the Statesman Journal, located in the beau-tiful community of Salem, Oregon. Passover came around shortly after we arrived at our new home. My wife Linda and I decided to see if we could conduct our own family Seder. The very thought of conducting our first Seder by ourselves was both exciting and nerve-racking. Preparing for the first Seder night, I could almost feel the fear and exulta-tion that a student-pilot feels before their first solo flight. Practicing take-offs and landings hundreds of times, they review countless reams of written material and design intricate flight plans in their sleep. But sooner or later, even the best student pilot must climb into the pilot seat for his first solo flight. It was with similar trepidation that we prepared for Passover. My wife Linda spent countless hours on the telephone beseeching the Matriarchs of the Hyatt, Lobenstein and Cooper families to part with their closely-g u a r d e d s e c r e t P a s s o v e r recipes. She spent days c o o k i n g n u m e r o u s dishes, experimenting with the ingre-dients until each dish was just right. While Linda was conducting her research, I spent evenings reading and re-reading the Haggadah. I wanted our first Seder to be one we'd remem-ber for years to come and would prop-erly honor the Holiday. A few days before Passover, just as we were gaining confidence that we could actually pull it off, we received word that my Mom and Dad were leaving the cozy confines of their Connecticut home to visit us for Passover! As soon as I could catch my breath and bring my heartbeat back below 120 beats per minute, I pulled out my trusty Haggadah and started practicing again. My parents arrived on schedule and that night we sat down for the first real Seder that had taken place in our home in more than 20 years. As the evening progressed and we saw that we could really do it, Linda and I began to relax and enjoy the evening. As the story of the Exodus from Egypt unfolded, a warm glow s e t - nificent dinner, sang songs, laughed and enjoyed being together. Other than turning my Mom's ears red when I put a little too much fresh horseradish in her Hillel sandwich, I think we did just fine. After we drank our last cup of wine, said grace and sang our last song, Linda and I felt like tied over t h e p a r - t i c i pants the table. _ was as if we had entered a time machine and all of our Zadies, Bubbies, cousins, uncles and aunts were in there with us. Like hundreds of generations before us we recounted the story of our ancestors and their journey from bondage. We drank wine, ate matzah, asked the Four Questions, hid the Afikoman, ate a mag-that aforementioned rookie pilot who finally lands their plane safely. We trembled with joy knowing we had faced the unknown, overcome our fears and accomplished our goal. We had arrived. Was it the best Seder ever conduct-ed? Probably not. Was it the most orga-nized Seder ever put together? I don't think so. But the true joy of the evening was discovering that anything is possible if you only take the time to try. For the Hyatt's it was truly an evening to remember. 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Not only did the children have an intensive year of study experience in both the Judaic and Secular curriculum, the atmosphere of positivism and warmth that pervaded all the aca-demic and extra-curricular pro-grams was unique. It is a tribute to the families, faculty and staff of the Academy that the year has progressed so smoothly and suc-cessfully. Let the comments of the parent body speak for themselves: Angie Gunderson, mother of Kelsie in the pre-school comments; "I wanted to let you know, because I don't think I do this often enough, how wonderful the experience has been, how much it has meant to Kelsie and to us, how much she is learning and how wonderful it feels to get such a sense of what it means to be a Jew." Recent arrival from South Africa, Ricky Dahan, mother of 3rd grad-er Ofir and pre-K Matan, kvells; "I can't believe how excited and motivated Ofir has been in his studies. 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