Passover 2026

Sell your Chametz

Deadline: Wednesday, April 1 by 8:30am

No leaven shall be seen or found in your possession during Passover.
- Deuteronomy 16:4

Much as we may try to eat up our chametz before Passover, it's not really an achievable task. The Rabbis introduced the practice of “selling” chametz to a non-Jew for Passover. Click here to authorize Rabbi Werbow to sell your chametz.

READ FROM SHIR HASHIRIM

Shabbat Services on Saturday, April 4

I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine . . .
Shir Hashirim 6:3

Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") is a beautiful work read each year on the Shabbat that falls during Passover. Click here to let Rabbi Werbow know if you would like to read from Shir Hashirim.

Food Deliveries

Sunday, March 29 at 9:00am

Sponsored by the Social Action Committee

Every year, TI members help to deliver bags of Passover items to needy elders in DC and Montgomery County. TI is usually assigned around 75 bags to deliver.

Volunteers bring the bags to the elders' residences and often spend a little quality time speaking with the recipients. If volunteers take 3 bags, we can use 25 people.

Volunteers will line up outside by the table and sign forms prior to taking bags and selecting delivery locations.

Register by Thursday, March 26 at 9am.

(You will be asked to log in to ShulCloud.)

Learn more about the Social Action Committee.

Register here

MAOT HITIN/מעות חטים

Deadline: Wednesday, April 1 by 9am

It is incumbent upon all of us to assure that everyone in our midst can provide the necessary food for a Passover Seder and for the general holiday observance. With the approach of spring and Passover, it has long been the tradition of congregations to collect maot hitin (literally wheat money), which is used to help poor Jews prepare for Passover, the great festival of liberation. 

Please contribute via this form or by check marked Rabbi's Discretionary Fund - Maot Hitin so we have adequate funds to help the many Jews who will be turning to us prior to Passover.  Your generosity will enrich other Jewish families physically and spiritually, as they celebrate this holiday of freedom.

Chag Sameach from all of us at Tifereth Israel.

Sincerely yours,
Rabbi Werbow

Contribute here

ORDER KOSHER WINE

Order from Kosherwine.com and 2% of your purchase will go to supporting TI.

Order Here 

Questions? Contact Sheri Blonder.

Resources

Rabbincal Assembly Pesach Guidelines 5786/2026
Torah Portion for Pesach Day 1
Torah Portion for Pesach Day 2
Torah Portion for Pesach Day 7
Torah Portion for Pesach Day 8
Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs")