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SAYDER: Reclaiming Our Seder Tables as Sacred Spaces

April 3, 2025

Seder stressed at this time of political and personal polarization? SAYDER, created by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie with Lab/Shul and in partnership with Reboot, helps us to reclaim our Passover Seder tables as sacred spaces for safely sharing stories, songs and questions, honoring all voices, starting to heal tensions and traumas and invoking visions for repair. SAYDER focuses on four new questions that respond to this complex moment, hear each other’s truths, engage in honest conversations, raise our cups to life, peace and collective liberation, together.

Whether you are a veteran Seder leader or it will be your first time attending a Passover ritual, the SAYDER kit will get you ready for what is a night different from all other nights of the year.

Structured around a new version of the four questions, Sayder preserves the drama of storytelling, the art of retrospection, the depth of conversation and the courage of optimism found in the traditional Seder but simplifies the event and enhances its relevance to our modern lifestyle. SAYDER 2025 is Lab/Shul’s Everybody-Friendly, God-optional Passover Seder insert. These FOUR NEW QUESTIONS can be integrated into your Haggadah – or replace it.

Download the SAYDER host guide here.
Download the new four SAYDER questions here.

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