PESACH/PASSOVER

PESACH/PASSOVER | MITZVOT

Temple Passover Mitzvah Projects

Food Needed
Before Passover, please consider bringing all unopened pasta, cookies, cake mixes, crackers, cereal and other flour products (chametz) to the Temple (food receptacles will be at all the entrances) for the North Dallas Shared Ministries. Donations of canned beans, fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, jams, jellies, soap and diapers also are needed. Please have all chametz to the Temple by April 17 so it can be removed from the premises before Pesach.

Funds for Passover Hunger Relief Project
It is traditional for Jews to reach out to those in need. Funds collected during the Passover Hunger Relief Project will be distributed to agencies that provide housing, food, health education and vocational training. Please write on your check "Project 277" and mail to Temple Emanu-El. NEW! Or you can donate online by clicking here.

Additional Mitzvot
The observance of Passover includes adherence to many mitzvot. Some are biblically commanded and others have grown out of our long tradition. They include:

Preparing the house and removing all the chametz (leaven food not suitable for Passover). “On the very first day you shall remove leaven from your house.” -- Exodus 12:15.

Preparing the Seder and reading the exodus story in the Haggadah.

Abstaining from eating any leaven, reminding us daily of the difficult times our ancestors suffered in the desert and of the urgency with which they departed Egypt.

Inviting guests to the seder and helping others enjoy the holiday by providing tzedakah to the poor. “Let all who are hungry to come and eat, let all who are in want share the hope of Passover.” -- The Haggadah

Reciting Yizkor during a memorial service on the final day of Passover.