This video sculpture was created for the Times Square Seder: Featuring the Matzo Ball Soup Kitchen by multi-media artist Melissa Shiff. The video is a cycle of endless doors opening from different classes of neighborhoods in Manhattan. It signifies that we should always be open to the Other whether that be Elijah or the stranger who is in need, thus recalling the injunction in the Haggadah to "Let all who are Hungry come in and Eat" and to invite a stranger to participate in the Seder. Elijah Chair is in the permanent collection of The Jewish Museum New York. (Melissa Shiff, Elijah Chair, Video Sculpture, 2002)


haggadah Section: Hallel