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5 Ideas to Make Your Passover Seder Even More Meaningful
- Edie
- Apr 9, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Apr 10, 2024
Passover is coming up - and the Haggadah is seeming more and more pertinent to our everyday lives this year.
Since starting Edie's Art Shop, I've been connecting deeply to my Jewish culture through making art, creating jewelry, and getting in touch with so many like-minded members of the tribe (like you!). And I've been feeling more inspired to celebrate every Jewish holiday to the fullest.
If you, like me, are looking to make this coming Seder an extra special one, read on for 5 ideas to make your Passover Seder even more meaningful than usual.
1. Make your own homemade Charoset
There's nothing like adding a homemade classic dish to make your table feel more special.
Charoset is a paste made of fruits and nuts that is eaten during the Passover Seder. Its texture is meant to symbolize mortar/mud, which was used by the Israelites when they were enslaved in Ancient Egypt. It is placed as a symbolic food on the Passover Seder Plate, and is often eaten on matzah.
Jewish dishes like charoset have been passed down for many generations, and you'll definitely be making your Bubbe proud by making it from scratch on your own!
You can try one of these recipes:
2. Order a Unique Gift for the Afikoman-Finder
The Afikoman is a half-piece of matzah that is often hidden before the Passover Seder starts so that children can then search for it.
In many families, the finder of the Afikoman is often given a small gift for finding the matzah - this makes the stakes a little higher for the participants!
And how fun would it be to gift a pair of Matzah Earrings or a Matzah Keychain to the lucky winner! They'll be able to wear their matzah accessories with pride at future seders.
If you're already looking ahead to another Jewish holiday, or would like to gift something fun that can be worn any day, check out our Challah Earrings, Challah Keychain, or Bagel Earrings.
3. Act out the Haggadah
If you have children participating in your Passover Seder, have them rehearse and then perform the Exodus story.
This is a great Jewish learning experience for kids who learn better by "doing" rather than just by reding the story. It's the most fun way to engage with the Haggadah!
You can provide a laundry basket for baby Moses to float down the river, and blue sheets to represent the Red Sea parting. Encourage creativity and see what kids put together! It's bound to be a memorable Pesach Seder for everyone involved.
4. Watch The Prince of Egypt as a Family
If the kids in your family aren't too keen on acting out the Exodus Passover story, you can make the Seder more engaging by first watching The Prince of Egypt together as a family (although being a child is not a requirement - I watch this Jewish classic on my own every year!).
The Seder will be so much more interesting if everyone knows the back-story and the reason that this night is "different from all other nights".
5. Include a Pomegranate as Part of your Seder
Pomegranates have long been considered a meaningful Jewish symbol, and are one of the Seven Species of Israel.
Adding a pomegranate (whether it's the whole fruit, seeds, juice, or even a pomegranate sculpture) to your seder table is a meaningful statement in a post-October 7th reality.
Pomegranates are a symbol of the sacred feminine, and so we can use them to reflect on the Jewish and Israeli women impacted by recent events. I got the idea from Adara Ritual's "A Post-Oct 7th Seder Supplement" in order to honour Israeli and Jewish women.
You can find Adara Ritual's free printable guide & ritual at AdaraRituals.com.
Because of the circumstances that we find ourselves in this year on Passover, it is especially important to have a big Seder and continue the traditions that the Jewish people have upheld for thousands of years. We must yell for the world to hear, with all of our hearts, to "Let our People Go".
There has never been a more meaningful time to be proudly and unapologetically Jewish!
Love, Edie
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