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cialness of the freedom of Passover.
"I've always made it a point not to
eat out at all during Passover. I spend
the eight days watching what I eat,"
tuart Snider, his wife and
said
the father of two grown sons. "I \_\
three small children began
have
a sense that most people feel
the process of ridding their
Passover
does have special meaning.
chametz
Southfield home of
The
association
of Passover with lib-
right after Purim.
eration is a very powerful connection
For the longtime member of
for Jews.
Machon L', Torah in Oak Park, the
"Freedom is not
house cleaning ritual
automatic. What we
tends to evoke a sense
experience in Ameri-
of spirituality.
ca is wonderful for
"It's a mechanical
Jews,
and not to be
process with a more
taken
for granted."
elaborate meaning of
For Marion
preparing for Passover
Freedman of West
and getting the
Bloomfield, the full
chametz out of your-
meaning of the holi-
self," said Snider. "It
day comes through a
happens by itself
sense of reliving
while you're cleaning
everything from the
the house and getting
passage of freedom
ready for Pesach.
to the history
Then, when you sit
— Alan Schwartz behind matzah.
down to the seder,
"It's always a time
you're in a position to
of remembrance for
feel yourself coming
me — remembering the Jews that
out of Egypt."
preceded us and the Jews that suf-
Snider, president of the Hebrew
fered through the Holocaust," said
Free Loan Association, said the holi-
the first vice president of Temple
day also brings a personal freedom in
the sense of obligation to do mitzvot, Beth El. "And I always picture the
seder table and the faces around the
to follow the divine will of God.
table and how they've changed from
"Pesach marks the forging of the
year to year."
Jewish people into a nation," said
It's not only the tradition of look-
Snider. "By recalling it on an annual
ing
back, but also of looking ahead
basis, it strengthens us as a Jewish
that's
important to Freedman, who
people as we all celebrate together."
directs
the Neighborhood Project
Franklin attorney Alan Schwartz
program
of the Jewish Federation of
experiences the deeper meaning of
Metropolitan Detroit.
Passover from the time he joins his
"I feel grateful to be able to sit
wife in tying ribbons around the
down to the Passover seder from one
doors of the cupboards after they've
year to the next. And it's comforting –\
been cleaned of chametz.
"It is in doing the tasks of the hol- for me to know that even though my
children are not at my seder, they are
iday that we come to know that
at a seder table," said the mother of
Passover is special," said the presi-
three. "It's a tradition that I've shared
dent of Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
with my children and that I hope
"The difficulty of the holiday, from
one day to share with my grandchil-
changing the dishes to eating differ-
dren.Y
ent foods, causes us to feel the spe-

RENA FULKA
Special to The Jewish News

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"The
difficulty ...
causes us to
feel the
specialness."

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