Reading Over the Haggadah

I definitely don't like to step up to the Seder unprepared. I like to re-read the text and prepare something new and different for each year.

I totally stole this idea from this post by Tamar Fox.

 

from wordle.net  

Off to continue practicing the Four Questions with my oldest....

and the Frog Song with my little ones!

Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof*

Justice, O Justice,
you shall pursue her always.
It is a great goal.

This week's Torah portion, Shoftim, reminds us that justice is our highest goal, our loftiest aspiration. It is a Torah portion full of rules -- rules for judges, rules for kings, rules for Levites, rules for prophets, rules for witnesses, rules for war. Interesting, then, that the Wordle for this week's portion finds the word "shall" as its most common word.



And, of course, I made one of the famous verse: "Justice, justice shall you pursue."
*The title of this post is the Hebrew version of this phrase.



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Read more about the Torah portion here.

Shabbat Shalom y'all!

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