Largest Seder Kept Secret

By COLlive reporter

For years it has been titled “the largest public Pesach seder in the world.” 2000 people from all backgrounds will be attending. A ton of Matzah and wine has been shipped.

Yet people don’t know where it will be.

The location of the mass seder event in Kathmandu, organized by the Chabad Shluchim in Nepal Rabbi Chezky and Chani Lifshitz, is being kept secret due to security concerns.

“The exact location will only be revealed to the guests a few hours before the seder,” a staffer at Chabad Nepal told COLlive.com. Israeli security guards in cooperation with local police will be securing the area.

The seder begins an hour and a half before sundown. An orchestra greets guests with traditional Jewish and holiday songs as the room fills up, with women later lighting candles and officially greeting Pesach.

A majority of the crowd are Israeli backpackers who are joined by Jewish tourists from Europe, South America and even Australia as they unite as one celebrating the holiday of freedom.

Lifshitz is being assisted by volunteers and a group of bochurim who flew in from New York thanks to the Merkos Shlichus project and Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky who is a year-round supporter of Chabad of Nepal.

3 additional communal seders are bring held in the country. One for English speakers in Kathmandu, another in the tourist city of Pokhara and a third in the town of Manang, situated to the north of the Annapurna mountain range, a section of the Himalaya Mountains.

Chabad of Nepal is asking the public to donate to the seder, as the costs have not been fully covered yet. Donations are accepted atNepal10.com