Let’s make Pesach count

we have a chance to form our own. Generally, we are happy to let major issues around us pass by because they are not “technically” our responsibility, or we can’t immediately think of a solution. We are so used to having others think for us – be they marketing gurus, consultants or cognitive specialists – that we have lost the ability to be self-sufficient thinkers. If there is one favour that we should be doing for ourselves today, it is to look at our lives objectively and ask ourselves “are my opinions really my own and am I happy with what is going on around me?”

If the answer to either of these questions is “no”, maybe it is time to find a clock and sit and think for a change.

Often people tell me that they get to Pesach each year and it is the same seder it has been for decades. They are correct, but what changes is us!

Leading up to Passover, I am getting together with people of all ages in the community, in homes, in shuls and in schools to share some fresh ideas for Pesach. It is incumbent upon all of us, as the teachers of our children and ourselves, to think differently. Rather than letting it pass over, let’s make Pesach count and find some time in the days leading up to the festival to think.