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Last Sunday, we held an early Passover Seder for our friends, but tonight my wife and I are going to Kehilat Sar Shalom for the real thing. The Feast of Unleavened Bread starts at sundown tonight, and for the first time, my wife and I are well prepared.

Of course, I’m not talking about having the right outdoor furniture, but about having the a wide variety of the right food in stock. This year, while we avoid yeast products, we’ll be able to enjoy main courses that feature buffalo meat, salmon, chicken and turkey meat, rather than just chicken, over the course of the next eight days.

That’s a lot more variety than we normally enjoy, and I’m really looking forward to it!

So, this coming weekend is Passover and my wife and I will be able to go to and enjoy our shul’s community seder for long-term members. That will be enjoyable, certainly. But while a Seder is far more relaxing than stressing over, say, computer rental, it can still be a lot of work and stress for the people hosting it.

My wife and I know; we held our third Seder last weekend for some close friends, which is nearly as dear an annual tradition for us as the Seder at our shul. We held our first one before we were married, over at a friend’s apartment. So it’s only our second time hosting as a married couple.

This year’s affair was smaller than normal; in part, that was by design, since spring has been a little tight on the purse strings. But although we only invited three other people this time, one of them canceled last-minute and it ended up being a foursome.

It was nice though. I led our little group through the haggadah and ceded sermon duties to my wife, who did well delivering a message customized to our guests, as well as a general review of the messianic symbolism in the Seder meal.

A good time was had by all; this weekend, the real matzah-fest begins!