The most important part of Passover is something you can do alone or together as a family.  It will not require physical work but spiritual work.  Just take some time to think through some of the implications of the story we tell on Passover.

For example: Consider the four promises of redemption we associate with the four cups of wine at our seder:

1. I will bring you out; you shall escape the suffering of narrow places.
2. I will save you from enslavement.
3. I will deliver you.
4. I will take you to me; you will be mine.

Then, consider yourself as the agent:

1. What does it mean to suffer the narrow spaces?  When do we feel constricted?  Is the narrow space within us? When are we sensitive and aware of others’ suffering?  What do we need to be made aware?
2. Are their limits to saving another?  Are we aware of our own dependencies? If so, why?
3. What is “deliverance”?   What kind of deliverance could each of us offer?
4. Can we really take the Other to be ours, or ourselves?

Some food for thought for Passover. Chag sameach!