Apr 5, 2020
A free, 8-part audio
course / Passover 2020
The most widely read, beloved, and perplexing book of
the Jewish tradition is the Passover Haggadah. It is also a serious
work of Jewish political philosophy. This Passover, Tikvah brings
you a free audio course from Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, exploring the
social, civic, and political teachings of the Haggadah. He will
show how every prayer, passage, symbol, and song aims to describe
and preserve the Jewish understanding of the good society, and why
the festival of freedom is so central to understanding what Judaism
stands for in every generation.
Episode 2: One of the strangest facts about the Haggadah is that in
telling the story of the Exodus, it doesn’t mention Moses. Rabbi
Soloveichik explains how the rabbis sought to honor Moses not as
leader, but as teacher, and how this helps us understand why
children are the focus of the Seder.