This week I take a break from the usual Parasha and concentrate on the holiday of Passover. While the Passover story was actually told through the Torah portions of Shemot, Va’era, and Bo (back in January), we celebrate the holiday in April (and sometimes March). Since I spent considerable time on the Passover story itself, I will take this chance to discuss other conflicts surrounding Passover (and probably applicable to Easter as well), and how we, as humans in the 21st century, deal with conflict when it comes to celebrating holidays.

We all have traditions that we grow with for holidays; whether it’s certain foods, special invites, or religious. As we build families, traditions change and doing so can lead to the complexity that is familial disputes (as discussed in Miketz and Vayechi). We marry into new families, we have children, we grow ever-so-slightly apart from our birth family, and yet, may have the strong........

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