Celebrate The Passover Seder with Dennis

A very big, a very big thing about this is to understand, and those of you who are not Jewish will find this particularly interesting, the central religious place in Jewish life is not the synagogue. Synagogue is quite important, but it is not the central religious place. The central religious place in Judaism is the home. And that is where the holidays are spent. It is where the Sabbath every week is celebrated. Yes, people go to synagogue on all of these occasions, those who obviously are observant, but it is the home that is the central place. So the Seder doesn't take place in a synagogue. Some people will do it, and they'll do it because it might be easier or they wanna be with a lot of people. 'Cause all of that is fine, but the vast majority of Jews, the vast majority of Jewish history have just done it in their home. And they will bring relatives, sometimes relatives they haven't seen since last Passover. They will bring friends and they will bring people who may not have a Seder otherwise. And that is a very big deal in Passover life, to bring people into your Seder who otherwise might not have one. A person who doesn't have children, a person who doesn't have parents, a person who doesn't have a spouse, whatever it might be. The Passover commemorates the Exodus from Egypt. The Jews were slaves in Egypt for hundreds of years. God took them out. This is the story of that. In Judaism, there are two faith pillars. This is critical. Two faith pillars. I didn't make any of this up. This is pure tradition. Creation and Exodus. God created the world. God took the Israelites, the Hebrews, the Jews, whatever term you wish to use, out of Egypt. Those are the two faith bases of Judaism. If you remove either, you pretty much don't end up with Judaism. Over time, It just won't work. Those are— there's not a lot of faith stuff demanded in Judaism, but those two are pretty central. God created the world. God took the Jews out of Egypt.