How to Be a Jew … on Passover

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on How to Be a Jew, we have questions, and answers too. As we all get ready for Passover we’re tackling some of the thorniest… and tastiest questions we’ve gotten. Need to save your matzah balls? What’s up with Christian Seders? Should we feel guilty about the plagues? Tune in for answers to these and other important questions.

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0:00.0	Shalom. Hello, what is up?
0:22.2	Welcome to How to Be A Jew.
0:23.5	I'm your host, Courtney Hazelit, and I've got Pesak vibes.
0:27.8	So I'm extra happy to have, as always, my co-host, Rabbi Dianna Fursko here.
0:33.0	Pesach vibes are the best vibes.
0:35.0	And producer Josh Cross.
0:36.6	Is it allowed to say, Hagsamerich, this many days before the holiday, even though it's just about to be the holiday?
0:42.4	I vote yes because I've been saying it all over town.
0:45.0	Well, then Hague Samaier.
0:46.5	Thank you.
0:47.2	Then it is so.
0:48.0	Hags Samaic, friends, because it is Passover, we have decided to do a Passover mailbag.
0:53.9	The Seder is a big thing. It's a huge
0:55.8	undertaking. The holiday itself is huge. Where do you rank it, Rabbi, an important holidays?
1:01.6	Can you even choose what the most important Jewish holiday is? I'm not going to choose the most
1:06.3	important, but in terms of my favorite, yes, and it's Passover. We're here. This one is the most identity sort of peoplehood holiday more than any of the other ones,
1:15.4	which is why it kind of vibes with everything I have to say.
1:18.8	Like, I'm not reading that wrong, right?
1:20.6	So you're not surprised why you love it.
1:22.5	Yeah, because it's about us becoming a people.
1:24.7	I can get behind that.
1:25.6	We are lucky that we have a huge list of questions
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