Passover 2025/5785
Services & Events
From The Schechter Institutes: Passover falls this year on Shabbat. How should one go about preparing for the festival and for the Shabbat meals? What do we do when Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat?
Thursday, April 10
7:45 am
Siyyum – Fast for the Firstborn, Morning Minyan @ Oheb, – Zoom and In-Person. Followed by nosh.
Saturday, April 12
9:45 am
Shabbat Services – Schechner Chapel – Livestream. Followed by a Barbara Zinbarg z”l Kiddush lunch. Sign up here to ensure we have a minyan.
Sunday, April 13
9:45 am
Passover Day #1 Service – Schechner Chapel – Livestream. Followed by a Barbara Zinbarg z”l Kiddush lunch. Sign up here to ensure we have a minyan.
Monday, April 14
9:45 am
Office closed.
Passover Day #2 Service – Schechner Chapel – Livestream. Followed by a Barbara Zinbarg z”l Kiddush lunch. Sign up here to ensure we have a minyan.
Tuesday, April 15
8 am
Chol Hamoed Passover Service – Zoom only
Wednesday, April 16
8 am
Chol Hamoed Minyan @ Oheb – Zoom and In-Person. Followed by breakfast.
Thursday, April 17
8 am
Chol Hamoed Passover Service – Zoom only.
Friday, April 18
8 am
Chol Hamoed Passover Service – Zoom only.
6 pm
Erev Shabbat and Yom Tov Service – Zoom only.
Saturday, April 19
9:45 am
Shabbat and Yom Tov Service, Schechner Chapel and Livestream. Followed by a Barbara Zinbarg z”l Kiddush lunch.
Sunday, April 20
9:45 am
Yom Tov Service with Yizkor, Schechner Chapel and Livestream. Followed by a Barbara Zinbarg z”l Kiddush lunch.
The 49-Step Omer Fitness Challenge
Rabbi Treu writes, “What’s holier, working out or praying? Who’s in for a spring fitness challenge? What does any of this have to do with Passover? Of all of the spiritual practices in the Jewish canon, exercise is perhaps our most neglected. We’ve come to separate our bodies from our souls, and both, all too often, from Jewish life.” That’s why she created The Omer Fitness Challenge.
Watch a short video about it here, or read about it at the link below.
Ready to get started? Download WhatsApp here or in the app store. (If you need help, let us know.) You can join the group here. Starts Monday, April 14.
Sell Your Chametz
It is customary to make a donation, called ma’ot hittin, “money for wheat,” which you can do as part of submitting this form. Donations will go directly to the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund and will be used to aid the poor and hungry.
Chametz check: If you are not sure you will have removed all of the chametz (leavened products) from your home before Pesach, click the button below to fill out a form for selling your chametz for the duration of the holiday. Forms are due by noon, Thursday, April 10.