Passover in White House

President Obama and a collection of guests celebrated Passover Thursday evening with what White House officials believe to be the first Passover Seder dinner hosted by an American president.

Have a black family in the White House celebrating the Jewish Passover which commemorates breaking the bonds of slavery 3500 years ago is a beautiful metaphor. The metaphor speaks to a higher truth that can not be articulated, but by a picture.

For the Jewish People Passover is the historical point when the people became a nation and fifty days later received the Torah. The counting of the Omer during these seven weeks separates between the servitude of man in Egypt to the servitude of God through the Torah/Teaching.

The Cabala introduces the idea of the seven emotions which require purification during this time—the first day is known as Chesed Shaba Chesed/Kindness of Kindness—a good day for the Presidential Seder.