With Passover around the corner, I am instantly transported back to my childhood. Some of my most favorite and enduring memories are from seders past with my family. Many of these memories have nothing to do with the actual celebration of the Exodus from Egypt, but rather my cousins reenacting scenes from Saturday Night Live, or my sister giving an impromptu lip sync performance to the music of the Pointer Sisters (I did grow up in the ‘80’s).

So what makes these trivial moments so vivid?

Well, it’s all in the way we observe this tactile holiday. In a nutshell, Passover is the celebration of the Jews’ freedom from slavery in Egypt. On the first and second nights (Passover is 7 days), we have a ritual feast called a seder.

Myjewishlearning.com sums it up:

During the seder, we don’t just tell the story of the Exodus, we see, smell, feel, and taste liberation.

Guided by the Haggadah (the “script” for…