Passover Preparations

Chametz represents our inner demons, our own interior puffiness, the same puffiness that makes bread rise. So we search our homes for everything that’s leavened, and that should be paralleled by a spiritual search for the puffy stuff in our own lives. What are our behaviors that we think need to be cleansed out? Write down 10 things about their lives to say, 'This is the chametz of my life. This is the puffy stuff. This is the stuff that has to go.' And then safely burn the piece of paper as a spiritaul ritual of burning the chametz, this way you’re also purging those things out of your life as well.”

-Rabbi Rachel Sabath, PBS Religion and Ethics 


haggadah Section: Introduction