Passover at Beth Shalom
Your Guide to Passover
Passover Service Schedule
7:30 am: Siyum for the first born
No Evening Minyan
Tuesday, April 11 - Beth Shalom's Offices are Closed
9:30 am: Passover Service Day 1
No Evening Minyan
Wednesday, April 12 - Beth Shalom's Offices are Closed
9:30 am: Passover Service Day 2
No Evening Minyan
Sunday, April 16
8:00 pm: Passover Evening Service
Monday, April 17 - Beth Shalom's Offices are Closed
9:30 am: Passover Service Day 7
7:30 pm: Rabbi Grossman's Passover Open House
Tuesday, April 18 - Beth Shalom's Offices are Closed
9:30 am: Passover Service Day 8
Sisterhood Passover Judaica Shop
Open:
Sunday, March 26 from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, March 29 from 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Sunday, April 2 from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, April 5 from 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Passover Seder Match Program
Some people in the Beth Shalom Community need a place to celebrate Passover First Seder.
If you have space to host at your table, please contact the Beth Shalom Office (410) 531-5115 no later than Monday, April 3.
And of course, let us know if you would like to be invited to celebrate with fellow congregants.
Sunday, April 9
Help with the Pre-Passover Community Seder
Sunday, April 9 at 5:00 p.m.
The Harmony Hall Assisted Living Facility is hosting a pre-Passover community seder for their residents and guests on April 9. Call the Beth Shalom office at (410) 531-5115 to help serve. Set up will begin at 4:00 pm. The meal will be served at 5:00 pm.
If you'd like to attend the seder and order a meal, please RSVP directly to Harmony Hall by April 5. Guest meals for non-Harmony Hall residents are $15. The meals are not kosher.
BEDIKAT HAMETZ
Search and Store by Sunday, April 9
Bedikat Hametz means the Search for Hametz. We search the house the night before Passover with a candle to make sure we did not leave any hametz lying around. The next day any hametz that was not already sold or stored away is to be burnt or gotten rid of. The ritual of Bedikat Hametz is based on the Biblical precept that we are not to own, see, or benefit from hametz during the week of Passover. Inexpensive kits with a spoon, feather, candle and bag are available from our Sisterhood Gift Shop. The prayer for the Search and Removal of the Hametz can be found in the kit and in the front of most Hagaddahs.
Monday, April 10
Siyum for the First Born
Monday, April 10 at 7:30 a.m.
Are you the first born in your family? According to tradition, the first born of every family fasts the morning before Passover in memory of God passing over the Jewish first born on the night before Passover. Don’t want to fast? You are in luck: if you engage in a seudah mitzvah, a meal for a religious purpose, you don’t have to fast. One such seudah mitzvah is held upon the completion, Siyum, of a section of rabbinic literature.
This year the siyum will celebrate the completion of the Mishnah Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) which Rabbi Grossman was studying in memory of her father (Pops) Norman Grossman.
Rabbi Grossman's Passover Open House
There’s More to Passover Than Matzah!
You are invited to a Passover Open House
Monday, April 17 at 7:30 pm
at the home of Rabbi Grossman and David Bode for delicious desserts and a brief service
6525 Freetown Road
Columbia, MD 21044
RSVP to the Beth Shalom office (410) 531-5115 by April 12
(Please park at the Hickory Ridge Village Center to allow space in the front of the house for handicapped visitors )
Minyan at the Rabbi’s home at 8:00 PM