In This Issue

• Why a Women's Seder?
• Aren't two Seders at home enough?
• I'm inspired! How do I participate?!
• How do I make a reservation?
• Milestones

Why a Women's Seder

A Women's Seder gives us the opportunity to come together and enjoy each other's company as women, to participate fully in an event that specifically addresses our own history, feelings and experience. We focus on the contributions of the women to the Exodus, and on how we, as women, experience the spiritual side of Pesach.

The Lev Eisha of Adat Shalom Women's Seder is inspired by our Lev Eisha service: It is spiritual and uplifting, full of song and sharing, and addresses a woman's heart.

For so many of us, from the time we were old enough to truly understand the Seder we have spent half of it in the kitchen, caring for restless young children, and overhearing, rather than participating in, the service. A Women's Seder gives us the opportunity to recline at the table, sing, dance, indulge ourselves and enjoy our freedom.

We need volunteers for special readings. If you would like to take a special part in the Seder, it is first-come, first-served, so respond ASAP to Judy so we can send you a preview of your reading.

By now, you've received your invitation (and RSVP card) for the Seder. If you haven't, go to www.leveisha.org, print it out and send in your response. Your reservation includes the Second Edition of our Women's Haggadah and a light lunch of Passover delights. Our Passover Cookbook, and extra copies of the Haggadah, are also available for $18 at the Seder.

Bring your daughters and your friends. Make this Pesach the most meaningful Pesach yet! I challenge you to embrace our physical redemption from Egypt with your own personal redemption from the usual Passover experience. Free yourself and soar to spiritual heights that our grandmothers could never have imagined!

Milestones Adopted, by Batya, a boy called "Moshe," in the Hebrew for "I drew him forth from the water," or, in the Ancient Egyptian, "Musa," for "son of water." Employed, by the Israelites, Miriam, in the position of domestic counselor, prophet, and water diviner. Travelling, Tzipporah, on a long journey with her husband's people. Destination: Canaan.