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IN THE VOICE OF OUR MOTHERS SEDER

We are delighted to announce the 3rd Annual "In the Voice of Our Mothers" Seder, coming to you from the women of the Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock, NY.

We will gather in person! on Saturday, April 8, 2023, at 3:00pm ET. This will be a chance to enjoy a traditional 3rd meal on Shabbat, all in one.

Come along with us on our wild and imaginative ride as we together set our intention to experience a Passover adventure with a little bit of ritual and a lot of creativity and storytelling.

This is not your grandmother’s seder. It is not even the seder you just shared a few days ago.

We will sing, we will eat, we will share, we will listen, but most of all we will imagine ourselves as the women of Exodus because even though the circumstances of our lives are different from theirs, we can still walk many miles in their shoes and share their hopes and their dreams and their fears as well as our own. We are all moving from slavery to freedom. You may be surprised at the similarities.

We will ask some other questions (not just the traditional 4)

  • What is enslaving me?
  • What is calling to me right now?
  • What are the ancestral threads that I carry and keep living out?
  • What does the Promise Land mean to me?
  • What do I want to teach the children?
  • What is my imagined version of each of these women’s stories?

We invite you to REGISTER NOW for this unique and beautiful experience: https://wjcshul.shulcloud.com/form/registration_voom-seder-2023.html

 

 

 

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Moses didn’t just need God’s support to lead the people to freedom - he never would have gotten out of diapers had it not been for the brave women of the Exodus story who risked all so that a little boy might live, and so that an enslaved people might escape to freedom. The midwives Shifra and Puah, Yocheved and Miriam, Pharaoh’s daughter, Tziporah, and all the unnamed women who hold up half the sky — it’s about time that we hear their voices as well. I can’t thank the creators of the “In the Voice of Our Mothers” haggadah enough. This creative and moving work will enrich and expand every Passover seder. And I repeat: it’s about time!

— Rabbi Jonathan Kligler, Kehillat Lev Shalem, Woodstock Jewish Congregation

Use this Haggadah at your Seder and you will have a tool for conjuring and honoring forgotten voices. You will welcome the Matriarchs, the unspoken heroines, the moms, Grandmas, the nanas, the bubbes, and the childless women who count on all of us to remember their lives of love and loss. Carol and Susan have lovingly captured and recorded voices in a manner that will bring the Seder to life and encourage future generations in finding their own voices.

— Rabbi Shir Yaakov Feit, Kol Hai: Hudson Valley Jewish Renewal

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What a joy!  This is a work of beauty and depth. The stories and memories are simply wonderful.  I love this! ...The writing is delicious, compelling, deep

—Rabbi Tsurah August, Chaplain for Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia. PA

I SO enjoyed it. What a beautiful approach to the passover seder journey. The narratives are gorgeous and opened up so many doors into the ritual and experience of the maggid. Truly amazing work.

—Rabbi Emily Cohen, West End Synagogue, NYC

This Haggadah is so accessible and usable, and immediately brought me to that meeting place between the heart of recent mothers and the inspiring power of ancient mothers.

— Rabbi Vivie Meyer, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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