If you only have one
Schonbek, put it where
everyone will see it.
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in a theater, where the stage is
set and people see the actors and
think the actors are terrific. Well,
who really deserves the most
credit in our case are the women."
The "hero of the seder," he
says, is his wife, Doreen.
Rabbi Moshe Tutnauer also
highlights the role of women in
the Passover story. The first two
chapters of Exodus speak about
the role of the women who made
the whole Passover story possi-
ble.
`The two midwives, Shifra and
Puah, are the first to engage in
civil disobedience, defying
Pharaoh and allowing Jewish
children to be born. Without
them, Moses never would have
been born," says Rabbi Tutnauer.
"Then you had Moses' mother,
Yocheved, who provides nurtur-
ing; the sister, Miriam, who is
wise enough to see to it that
Pharaoh's daughter wants to
have this Hebrew woman take
care of the child; and finally,
Pharaoh's daughter. Her name
is not given, but tradition calls
her Batya, the daughter of God."
A seder must be inclusive, Mr.
Hermelin says, a service in the
home "that has meaning to old-
est and youngest, men and
women, connects you to your past
and hope for the future, to your
people and to Israel. All the ele-
ments of rising to a higher level
— spiritually.
"Everybody is important," he
says. "There is no person at the
seder who isn't important to the
seder."
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