I don't know if it's helpful or not until I try it. Would you send me a link or two? I'm definitely curious. I have a sufficient number of Jewish friends and acquaintances that I took the opportunity to watch the video and read up a little on this web site, but I don't have the cultural insight to understand how Passover would be secularized.
As I said, I don't think it's going to help you to think of it as a "secularized" holiday. It's one of the "they tried to kill us; we're still here; let's eat" holidays. (Yes, we have several of those.)
It doesn't mark a specific religious event, but it has some directly religious elements. Whether one chooses to engage with those or not can make it more or less of a religious occasion.
Hmm, maybe I'll make this the theme of my annual Passover post, and see if I have anything coherent to say about it.
Actually, that helps. I was focused too strongly on the "we were spared a Biblical plague by divine power" (what gets focused on in kids' Christian Bible school) and not enough on the "we survived, we are free from Egypt, let's celebrate."
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Date: 2018-03-29 06:40 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2018-03-29 06:45 pm (UTC)It doesn't mark a specific religious event, but it has some directly religious elements. Whether one chooses to engage with those or not can make it more or less of a religious occasion.
Hmm, maybe I'll make this the theme of my annual Passover post, and see if I have anything coherent to say about it.
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Date: 2018-03-29 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-29 09:59 pm (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_Judaism
http://www.shj.org/humanistic-judaism/what-is-humanistic-judaism/
http://www.kahalbraira.org/about/humanistic-judaism
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Date: 2018-03-29 09:57 pm (UTC)www.circleboston.org/sites/www.circleboston.org/files/Haggadah_2012_0.pdf
http://seder.today/haggadot/humanist-haggadah/
https://www.scribd.com/document/251038254/Humanist-Haggadah