This year the theme of Passover is more urgent than ever. The people of our country are experiencing losses of freedom in work, faith, ethnicity, race, sexual and gender orientation, education, freedom for the future of our planet, freedom over our bodies, freedom to vote, even freedom to speak. We must respond to this takeover. We must do it with love and with urgency, with intensity yet kindness, never losing sight of the goal of a world a community of love and care. We must cultivate – for ourselves and for the freedom of others – ferocious love.

I have teamed with Designer + Art Historian Alva Horton and colleagues Rabbi Rachel Hertzman, Cantor Lizzie Shammash, and my husband and cantorial soloist, Michael Greenwald, to bring you these pages to enhance your Passover Seders and the weeks and months to follow with the messages of caring for the self and caring for all of creation with passionate goodness.

May these readings and this holiday bring us to a greater sense of internal freedom and help ground us in our strength and our joy as we work for freedom for all.

Blessings for a zissen Pesach – for sweet liberation.

Ferocious Love is a supplement you can download and print as a companion to your Haggadah.

If you wish to order a PRINT version, the price is $75 and must be ordered before 4.8.25. Email Rabbi Robin for details.