One of the great Passover traditions is hiding the afikomen. We hide half a piece of matzah (the middle of three, to be exact) and the child who finds it during the Passover meal receives a prize. And importantly, your meal can’t end and the seder can’t continue until the afikomen is found.

But where did this strange custom come from and why do we do it?

Meet Sandy Samuels, our CSUN club advisor and Hillel 818 board member!

When we pray classic set texts, we connect both to our ancestors who have uttered those words for thousands of years, and to others around us who are also praying those exact same pages. That’s a kind of magic, a power that derives from the collective values that a past, present, and future global community are treasuring.