Freedom

We are living through days of noise and war. News chases news, and the heart struggles to find its footing amid the turmoil. It is difficult to look ahead to Passover when each day seems to bring a new storm. Yet precisely at moments like these, the great questions that have accompanied the Jewish people throughout the generations can offer an anchor. What is the freedom to which we aspire, and how do we move toward it? What is the unique place of each of us within the long story of the Jewish people, and how can we remain together when our answers are so different? What might we discover when we gather around the Seder table—and what will we carry with us when the evening ends and we return to the rhythms of everyday life?

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The Passover Haggadah invites us to ask what true freedom is and how one attains it.

At first glance, the struggle of Soviet Jews for personal and national freedom seems entirely different from the miraculous Exodus from Egypt. But in a conversation exploring the Plague of the Firstborn (Makat Bechorot), the Splitting of the Sea, and the Revelation at Sinai within the Haggadah text, we will uncover the eternal truths passed down from generation to generation—truths that accompany every individual on their journey toward freedom: confronting fear, the necessity of taking personal risks, and the search for the “why” that gives meaning to every “how.”

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Content Direction: Tamar Stampfer 

Production: Hagai Shved  

Videography: Ido Cohen Alloro & Asaf Ofek  

Editing: Yishay Shapira 

Sound: Ariel Zemer 

Technical management: Nisim Sheizaf 

Lighting: Zaki Kawasme 

Video design: Arik Futterman 

Studio Design & Direction: Asaf Ofek 

Graphic Design: Dov Abramson Studio 

Advertising: Sharon Gini, Osher Ben Yehuda 

Marketing: Gabriel Vinocur, Yam De Loya 

Digital: Matan Haim, Lior Shir Ran, Hadas Duchan, Noa Sorek, Niva Goldberg 

Project Management: Eyal Levit  

Beit Avi Chai CFO: Noam Novick 

Beit Avi Chai Executive Director: Dr. David Rozenson