The Fours of the Passover Seder
Learning With Your Own Havruta
Course Details
This course is your chance to prepare spiritually for the Passover Seders. Each session delves into one set of four found in the Haggadah: cups, questions, children, and mothers, exploring different windows into the story of Yetzi’at Mitzrayim (Exodus from Egypt) and its significance for us. This learning will guide you and your havruta in a conversation with ancient sages and modern Jewish thinkers, looking at talmudic texts, hasidic commentaries as well as poetry and art. When we each, God willing, arrive at our Seder tables this year, we will have contemplated ideas at the core of Pesah—liberation, Jewish pedagogy, diversity, and moral courage—and will have many pearls of wisdom to share with family and friends.
Rabbi Elie Lehmann is the Director of Hadar Boston. Previously, he served as Campus Rabbi and University Chaplain at Boston University Hillel. Elie studied for two years as a Hadar Fellow before receiving his rabbinic ordination from Hebrew College in Boston. While pursuing his studies, Elie was honored to be a Wexner Graduate Fellow and served as rabbinic intern at Temple Reyim and Tufts University Hillel, and chaplain intern at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Additionally, he was the Inaugural Director of Kulanu’s Global Teaching Fellows, with whom he taught and built curricula for Jewish communities in Kenya, Ghana, India and beyond. Elie has dual B.A.'s from Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary. Currently, Elie lives in Newton, MA with his wife, Anya, and their sons, Razi, Shalev, and Ziv.
