Passover Greetings from our Rabbi-Our Seder is 5:30 April 19

Passover begins Monday Evening April 14th.
If you're looking for a seder, e-mail ritual@mynertamid.org. Our Seder is 5:30pm,  April 19. Cost is $15 per person, $10 Children under 10

Passover Greetings 
 
Once again spring has arrived in Atlanta and our lives. Spring also is a harbinger of Passover, our people's redemptive celebration of deliverance from Egyptian bondage. Travelling around our city and its western and northern suburbs we are greeted with a treat worthy of Monet's water lilies and more. Our eyes delight to a visual world turning a riot of color. Over is the long, often trying winter with its ice and snow so many have experienced. In its place every imaginable spring flower and tree has blossomed in spectacular beauty and glory. Wisteria, azaleas, dogwoods, forsythia, tulips, daffodils, cherry blooms bring hope and inspiration. 
 
It is good time to be alive. It is great time to experience nature's rebirth. It is also a privilege and a mitzvah to celebrate the rebirth of our people from slavery to freedom symbolized by our festival of Passover. Passover represents our own flowering as Jews and children of G-d's covenant. This year our beautiful congregational seder (which we urge you to participate in by joining the 60 people who have already signed up) is in Acworth. Next year it will be, along with every Jewish celebration beginning with Rosh HaShanah, in our new spiritual home. We are truly coming out of bondage. Our synagogue community is in the process of being born again. We are privileged to work for it, witness it, share it and celebrate it. 
 
As we sit down to our home seders with family and friends this coming Monday evening, we pray that each of you will experience the redemptive spirit of our haggadahs, rituals, foods, and most of all, the love and friendships abounding at our tables. This spirit of our people and faith is real and unbreakable. Joined by the Officers and Board of Congregation Ner Tamid who have worked so hard to sustain us during our period of being "wandering Jews," Marilyn and I wish each of you the blessings of this season. Collectively we know we are part of a great community still in the earliest stage of our history but soon to enter our Promised Land.
 
Chag Sameach/Happy Festival, 
Rabbi Tom