{"id":53735,"date":"2016-04-20T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=53735"},"modified":"2016-04-20T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T17:10:20","slug":"empty-chair-seder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/tribute\/empty-chair-seder\/","title":{"rendered":"An Empty Chair at the Seder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this moving piece over at The Times of Israel, Howie Beigelman reflects about having a seder without his father who died last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Last year, the seder \u2013 all of Pesach really \u2013 was a blur. We were hardly up from shloshim, the first thirty days of mourning, for my dad. He was on my mind then, but he\u2019s on my mind now too, even \u2013 or because of \u2013 the intervening time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As I prepare for the second Passover since my father died, I still can\u2019t get one conversation with him out of my mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\nIt\u2019s not just because this will be only the fourth time in my life sitting down to the seders without him at the table. It\u2019s not because there isn\u2019t a day that goes by where I don\u2019t think of something I\u2019d like to tell my dad, or a question I wish I could ask him. And it\u2019s not even because I can\u2019t believe my young children will never have the chance to steal his afikomen.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/an-empty-chair-at-our-seder\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this moving piece over at The Times of Israel, Howie Beigelman reflects about having a seder without his father who died last year. Last year, the seder \u2013 all of Pesach really \u2013 was a blur. We were hardly up from shloshim, the first thirty days of mourning, for my dad. 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