Is Pesach (Passover) connected to Purim?

Thank you Malka for setting this up!

To add to what Malka has written on this subject:

Talmud Bavli Megilla 6b discusses in which month of Adar should the Megilla be read and Purim be celebrated in the case of a leap year when there are two months of Adar (as this year). We would expect the answer to be the first month of Adar because we don't "pass over" the opportunity to celebrate and fulfil a commandment at the first opportunity. The reason given for the second month of Adar - which is what we practice - is to keep the two redemptions - Purim and Pesach - together.

Private User How interesting!

This is a fun book sure to keep guests awake "300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions" by Murray Spiegel and Rickey Stein..
eg. Valley Girl, Shakespearean English, Dr. Seuss, etc.
300 Ways from Arabic, Farsi, French Estonian, Danish, German, Hungarian, Hindi, Italian, Klingon, Leet, Java etc. etc. to Zulu
http://whyisthisnight.com/samples.html - samples

*See Four sample pages from two fun Haggadoth - Documents link
http://www.geni.com/projects/The-Paradox-of-Passover-Panoply-of-Hag...
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All are available at http://www.haggadahsrus.com/NTR.html
Amazon.com and other Passover outlets.

We welcome any contributions to the project. e.g.. Additional questions, answers, sources. etc.

Fun. I'm so tired this year that I can barely remember what I normally do for Passover. I have been having the Seder with the same friends since 1977. One or two years I was out of town (Israel, Italy) but other than that we have celebrated the same way every year. I also order artichokes flown in from California for them and my friend, who is a fabulous cook, cooks them two different ways. She serves artichokes during the carpas dipping, to keep us from starving by the meal. I usually serve marinated asparagus at that time when I have the second Seder at my place. Their kids decorate the table with frogs and cattle with disease (plastic), hail (Styrofoam) and all the other symbols of Pesach. It's a very lively evening. We each have our chosen role in the Had Gadya song at the end and make the same noises each year.

I should get them the "300 Ways to Ask the Four Questions" book!

I just stumbled in here by accident, but it looks like a fascinating project! I'm a non-Jew married to a secular Jewish man, but I was lucky enough to have a very loving relationship with my in-laws, who taught me a great deal about Judaism through the Reconstructionist lens.

Back in the early 1990s, I decided to write a Haggadah our family could use--one that would take all our heritages into consideration, would include everyone, but would still have a traditional grounding. Looking back, I feel it was kind of presumptuous of me to think that I could somehow improve on the very learned texts that were available, but at the time it just seemed not that big a deal.

Over the years, I revised our family's Haggadah many times, adding and subtracting pieces to keep the narrative flowing and to ensure that everyone felt engaged and excited by the process. This year, my mother-in-law is no longer with us, but my father-in-law was able to attend our seder, along with his nephew and niece-in-law. When we began to read the plagues, and my daughter started raining tiny plastic flies, locusts, etc. down on those at the table to illustrate the point, my father-in-law was absolutely delighted; in all his 89+ years, he said he'd never been to a more exciting seder!

I don't have a link to our Haggadah online, but if anyone is interested, I'd be happy to email you a PDF copy.

Karen - thank you for your input. Malka and I (especially Malka) put a lot into that project before Pesach (Passover) this year. It's always difficult to gauge the interest level for a project such as this. We got 18 followers, but probably quite a lot more "lurkers" who watched without being official "followers". Should we attempt something like that again say for the High Holidays (Rosh Hashana / Yom Kippur - New Year / Day of Atonement)?

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Private User What a wonderful idea, I would love to help you create some sort of High Holiday Project!
Private User Thank you for sharing your beautiful story. If you could manage somehow to have your personal Haggadah scanned into pdf form, we could add it to the Passover Haggadah Project to encourage others to follow your wonderful lead.