Keeping Passover: Everything You Need to Know to Bring the Ancient Tradition to Life and Create Yo
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Keeping Passover: Everything You Need to Know to Bring the Ancient Tradition to Life and Create Yo
"Although the idea of 'keeping Passover' has too often come to mean the strict observance of an unending string of ordinances, decrees, rules, regulations, testimonies, precepts, laws, and statutes, it can as well mean the safekeeping of something precious and worth preserving. Tradition should be like the ballast that keeps a ship steady in an ocean of constant stormy change."
From one of the nation's leading Haggadah experts comes the ultimate guide to creating a faithful and personal seder celebration. Emphasizing "thou may" instead of "thou shalt," Steingroot presents all the traditional and alternative options. Keeping Passover explores:
the meaning of the Passover symbols
how to choose the right Haggadah
food, cookbooks, and table arrangements
music, recordings, and learning to sing the songs
ways to involve children
the art of keeping Passover fresh every year
Keeping Passover is a much needed and highly accessible resource offering a rich assortment of methods -- from simple to elaborate, traditional to innovative -- to enhance, preserve, and celebrate the seder.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Excellent Introduction/Review:
This paperback was interesting and fact-filled, even for someone with previous knowledge of Passover and the Seder. It's approach is traditional, although i am not sure the ultra-Orthododox would regard it as such. My one complaint was the size of the print in the paperback edition--too small.
A Must For Passover:
Steingroot approaches Passover customs with the attitude of "you may" replacing "you must." Further, his research into the history of Passover traditions is extensive, which provided me (one of the Goyim) with the ability to amaze my Jewish friends. Even my partner wasn't sure why his family ate potatoes as a "green vegetable." Steingroot knew why. I adopted Steingroot's attitude of "you may," and as a result, our first seder as hosts was a great success.
A Beautiful Meditation and Explication of Passover:
Steingroot has written a beautiful, thoughtful, and highly erudite book on Passover, one that enables the reader to delve deeply into its mysteries, and to love its idiosyncrasies. I reccomend this book to anyone interested in writing their own Haggadah, or tweaking the one they already use. The section titled "The Mute Book", where Steingroot explores the esoteric symbolism underlying the structure and ritual of the seder, is especially gripping (strange word to use of such a topic, but true).
A must read for the month between Purim and Passover.:
The purpose of this book is to provide information to
empower each of us to create a meaningful Passover,
no matter what our level of observance or learning.
Provides wonderful insights on the meaning of
ritual, text, history and communal experience. Also an
exhaustive source of further information.
Highly recommend as a basic resource in any home Jewish
library.
