Keeping Passover: Everything You Need to Know to Bring the Ancient Tradition to Life and Create Your Own Passover Celebration »

"Although the idea of 'keeping Passover' has too often come to mean the strict observance of an unending string of ordinances, decrees, rules, regulations, testimonies, precepts, laws, and statutes, it can as well mean the safekeeping of something precious and worth preserving. Tradition should be like the ballast that keeps a ship steady in an ocean of constant stormy change."

From one of the nation's leading Haggadah experts comes the ultimate guide to creating a faithful and personal seder celebration. Emphasizing "thou may" instead of "thou shalt," Steingroot presents all the traditional and alternative options. Keeping Passover explores:

• the meaning of the Passover symbols
• how to choose the right Haggadah
• food, cookbooks, and table arrangements
• music, recordings, and learning to sing the songs
• ways to involve children
• the art of keeping Passover fresh every year

Keeping Passover is a much needed and highly accessible resource offering a rich assortment of methods — from simple to elaborate, traditional to innovative — to enhance, preserve, and celebrate the seder.

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The language is straightforward -- heimish yet sophisticated and not without its humor.

	Acknowledgments
	Bedikat: One Candle to Illuminate Your Search
1	Dayyenu: It Would Have Been Sufficient	1
2	Shulchan Arukh: The Prepared Table	16
3	Mutus Liber: The Mute Book	55
4	Barukh Attah: Blessed Art Thou	89
5	Mah Nishtannah Ha-Layla Hazeh: Why Is This Night Different?	114
6	Echad Mi Yode'a: Who Knows One?	195
7	Shir Ha-Ma'alot: A Pilgrim Song	207
8	Kol Dichfin Yehseh Ve-Yehchul: Let All Who Are Hungry Enter and Eat	227
9	Ha Lachma Anya: This Is the Bread of Affliction	250
10	Ve-Higadetah Le-Vinchah: And You Shall Tell It to Your Children	260
11	Mi-Bet Avadim: Out of the House of Bondage	280
12	Be-Chol Dor Va-Dor: In Every Generation	286
13	La-Shanah Ha-Ba'ah Bi-Yerushalayim: Next Year in Jerusalem	295
	Dates of Passover Through 2012	312
	Glossary	313