Urchatz - Wash Your Hands To Prepare for the Seder

Water is refreshing, cleansing, and clear, so it’s easy to understand why so many cultures and religions use water for symbolic purification. We will wash our hands twice during our seder: now, with no blessing, to get us ready for the rituals to come; and then again later,  we’ll wash again with a blessing, preparing us for the meal, which Judaism thinks of as a ritual in itself.

On this Zoom Seder, we can't pass around the bowl of water that we would do normally. But isn't it ironic that we find ourselves otherwise washing our hands so many times a day during this pandemic?!?


haggadah Section: Urchatz