The house has to be thoroughly cleaned
and the Passover dishes and utensils have to be brought out. Passover
dishes are separate from the daily milk and meat utensils in a Jewish home.
Passover starts at the end of next week. In my own preparation I have written a short prayer to be said at the end of the reading of the Haggadah, the story of the exodus from Egypt three thousand years ago. An addition to the Haggadah has occurred in my lifetime. It is a remembrance of those who were “annihilated in chambers of fire, in factories of death.”
I offer another addition to the Haggadah, feel free to use it:
"Yad Vashem
"Isaiah 56:5 which promises everlasting remembrance: "And to them will I give within my house and within my walls a memorial and... an everlasting name."
"Born in the shadow of the Shoah, of a powerful family, was a man who rose to be the leader of the most powerful people on earth. This man, at a time when the enemies of Israel were stirring the old hates of the Shoah and new hates among the neighbors of Israel, spoke out loudly and clearly for the rights and freedom of the children of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. This man was among the strongest friends of Israel since the times of Moses.
"We, Israel, shall remember our friends, on this day of celebration of our freedom; we shall honor the great as well as the small. This man, George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America, joins with tens of thousands of friends of Israel we already honor by name."
(Image: 1695 Haggadah from Amsterdam)