White House Passover presentation

[Gary_Trujillo]

Hello, all.

On Tuesday, 11 April, our fellow FCE student, Diane Sandoval, kindly shared with us a link to the White House virtual Seder event that happened on Monday (she would have been able to announce the event before its live streaming if I hadn't neglected to add her to the mailing list beforehand (Mea culpa!)). I watched that video myself and found it most worthwhile, especially in regard to its explanation of the Passover tradition, of which the Seder meal is an integral part, and due to its explanation of how the symbolism inherent in the tradition has a lot to do both with themes of oppression, which in turn relate to the mal-distribution of food resources in our nation and in the world today, and with the idea of liberation, from oppression and other limitations we can both experience and imagine, like not having access to sufficient amounts of nutritious food required to sustain one.

I have a lot of thoughts about such matters which came to me after seeing this video. I would like to share such musings, and the feelings that go with them, with the rest of you, but, alas, I'll have no time to express them for a while, partly because I need to catch up with the course materials - lectures, readings and video presentations. Meanwhile, I'd like to recommend the White House Passover video to your attention. Feel free to share your own thoughts and feelings here. Perhaps some of these things can be carried into the FCE class discussion of Modules 5 and 6.

More to come later...

Gary