If you would like to volunteer to be part of the planning for this exciting new event, please e-mail the synagogue. We hear the necessity to tell our children throughout all future generations of our salvation on that night of birth and death entwined. We hear the commandment to prepare a ritual meal in memory of our being driven from Egypt into the unknown. We hear that no uncircumcised man can take part in that ritual meal. The haftorah tells how Joshua, forty years later, organized a mass circumcision so the new generation could celebrate Pesach before crossing into the promised land.
Circumcision is connected with Pesach.
Pesach is the holiday of birth. The people emerge from a narrow place through a bloody opening and begin a long uncertain journey. It is the holiday of beginnings. The midwife, God, is revealed as the source and essence of a holy process that can unfold only through time. The seder exists because the Torah commands all parents to tell their children about our national origin as slaves who escaped miraculously from bondage.