{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "beginning-evening", "title": "Beginning the Evening", "author": "Cody Greenes", "author_handle": "codygreenes", "author_initials": "CG", "covertext": "By participating in the symbolic actions built into the order of the Seder, we can share in:     the experience of the r...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><span>By participating in the symbolic actions built into the order of the Seder, we can share in:</span></p><p><span>     the experience of the rebirth of the natural world around us,</span></p><p><span>     the national liberation of our people,</span></p><p><span>     the spiritual redemption of each individual human being.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>We begin the evening:</span></p><p><span>     some of us feeling shackled by the bonds of winter,</span></p><p><span>     some of our and other peoples of the world persecuted,</span></p><p><span>     many of us confined by our own personal limitations.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>Tonight, the night of the Seder, we hope to set in motion:</span></p><p><span>     processes of growth that encourage within each of us,</span></p><p><span>     the renewal of each person's unique vision, and</span></p><p><span>     efforts to work for the freedom of our scattered - and other, oppressed, people,</span></p><p><span>as we see about us the <strong>flowering of a new year</strong>.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><strong><span>Indeed, we begin our Seder here.</span></strong></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>However, our goals are neither</span></p><p><span>     our renewal, </span><span>our efforts, </span><span>nor our flowering.</span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><strong><span>Pesach is but the pointer to the acceptance of our commitments to complete these tasks… in a harvesting of the fruits of our labors yet to come.</span></strong></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah, Edited by Rabbi Mark Hurvitz, www.davka.org", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 221, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Beginning the Evening | Passover haggadah by Cody Greenes", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Raise the empty goblet and say: Miriam's...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p> <em><span>Filling Miriam's Cup follows the second cup of wine, before washing the hands. Raise the empty goblet and say:</span></em> </p><p><span>Miriam's cup is filled with water, rather than wine. I invite women of all generations at our Seder table to fill Miriam's cup with water from their own glasses.</span></p><p> <em><span> Pass Miriam's cup around the table(s). Explain the significance of filling Miriam's cup with water:</span></em> </p><p><span>A Midrash teaches us that a miraculous well accompanied the Hebrews throughout their journey in the desert, providing them with water. This well was given by God to Miriam, the prophetess, to honor her bravery and devotion to the Jewish people. Both Miriam and her well were spiritual oases in the desert, sources of sustenance and healing. Her words of comfort gave the Hebrews the faith and confidence to overcome the hardships of the Exodus. We fill Miriam's cup with water to honor her role in ensuring the survival of the Jewish people. Like Miriam, Jewish women in all generations have been essential for the continuity of our people. As keepers of traditions in the home, women passed down songs and stories, rituals and recipes, from mother to daughter, from generation to generation. Let us each fill the cup of Miriam with water from our own glasses, so that our daughters may continue to draw from the strength and wisdom of our heritage.</span></p><p> <em><span><span>Opportunity to share a story or two about a Jewish woman in your life.</span></span></em> </p><p> <em><span>When Miriam's cup is filled, and stories are told (if appropriate), raise the goblet and say:</span></em> </p><p><span>We place Miriam's cup on our Seder table to honor the important role of Jewish women in our tradition and history, whose stories have been too sparingly told.</span></p><p> <em><span> Continue by reciting this prayer (from Susan Schnur):</span></em> </p><p><span>\"You abound in blessings, God, creator of the universe, Who sustains us with living water. May we, like the children of Israel leaving Egypt, be guarded and nurtured and kept alive in the wilderness, and may You give us wisdom to understand that the journey itself holds the promise of redemption. AMEN.\" --Susan Schnur</span></p><p><span> <em>Alternate Reader</em> :</span></p><p><span>Miriam's life is a contrast to the life of Elijah, and both teach us important lessons. Elijah was a hermit, who spent part of his life alone in the desert. He was a visionary and prophet, often very critical of the Jewish people, and focused on the messianic era. On the other hand, Miriam lived among her people in the desert, following the path of hesed, or loving kindness. She constantly comforted the Israelites throughout their long journey, encouraging them when they lost faith. Therefore, Elijah's cup is a symbol of future messianic redemption, while Miriam's cup is a symbol of hope and renewal in the present life. We must achieve balance in our own lives, not only preparing our souls for redemption, but rejuvenating our souls in the present. Thus, we need both Elijah's cup and Miriam's cup at our seder table.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "miriamscup.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 225, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Miriam's Cup | Passover haggadah by Cody Greenes", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Why? Why not?</p><p> <em>Optional song</em> :</p><p>Go tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere. Go tell it on the mountain/To let my people go!/Who are the people dressed in white?/Let my people go!/Must be the children of the Israelite/ Let my people go!/Who are the people dressed in red?/Let my people go!/Must be the people that Moses led./Let my people go!/Who are the people dressed in black?/Let my people go!/Must be the hypocrites a-turning back./Let my people go!</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Shalom Center, Rabbi Heschel", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 239, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "4th Cup - Responsibility | Passover haggadah by Cody Greenes", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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One ritual they devised was placing a crust of bread on the Seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians (\"there's as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the Seder plate\").</span></p><p><span>At the next Passover, I placed an orange on our family's Seder plate. During the first part of the Seder, I asked everyone to take a segment of the orange, make the blessing over fruit, and eat it as a gesture of solidarity with Jewish lesbians and gay men, and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community (I mentioned widows in particular).</span></p><p><span>Bread on the Seder plate brings an end to Pesach - it renders everything chametz. And its symbolism suggests that being lesbian is being transgressive, violating Judaism. I felt that an orange was suggestive of something else: the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians and gay men are contributing and active members of Jewish life. In addition, each orange segment had a few seeds that had to be spit out - a gesture of spitting out, repudiating the homophobia that poisons too many Jews.</span></p><p><span>When lecturing, I often mentioned my custom as one of many new feminist rituals that had been developed in the last twenty years. Somehow, though, the typical patriarchal maneuver occurred: My idea of an orange and my intention of affirming lesbians and gay men were transformed. Now the story circulates that a MAN stood up after a lecture I delivered and said to me, in anger, that a woman belongs on the bimah as much as an orange on the Seder plate. My idea, a woman's words, are attributed to a man, and the affirmation of lesbians and gay men is simply erased. Isn't that precisely what has happened over the centuries to women's ideas?</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Susannah Heschel", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 391, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Orange | Passover haggadah by Cody Greenes", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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