Passover - a Time of Renewal

I've been enjoying Passover this year.  With only 2 more days to go, I'm not tired of matzah and not craving hametz (the term used for the foods forbidden on Passover).  Why do I feel this way?  Perhaps it is because I am have been working on my inner self as well.  Searching for the inner hametz - the crumbs which I've left unattended and are now growing things.  It is so easy to let them go and lie there, but when we let the inner stuff go unattended - they always seem to come back in negative ways.

So - whether or not you are Jewish, are keeping Passover, or have even heard of Passover - - I hope that you are finding ways to deal with your internal crumbs.

A Sister Blogger

Thank you to NechaBasha in Boston for a powerful High Holy Day ritual idea for an abuser who has died. She wrote about it in a comment on an earlier post. You can find the comment here near the bottom of the page. If find her idea powerful, strengthening and in a way that interests me, it is tangibly Jewish and connected to our tradition.

I have long felt that our tradition encourages us, prods us and even commands us to find healing and hope. (I am not in any way justifying being abused or our abusers abusing us. In no way. I am just sharing with you one of the ways that I cope.) NechaBasha's idea resonates tradition and healing.

I invite you to check out her website, JIST - Jewish Incest Survivors Together.

May our rituals this High Holy Days strengthen and heal us.