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By reading and discussing the Four Children, and then responding to it through modern themes, we can come to an understanding of who we are and our relation to the our Children. The source of this section are four verses from the Tanakh which briefly mention children asking, or being told about, the Exodus from Egypt. Using these very general verses, the Rabbis created four prototypes which are given to show us that we must teach a child according to the child's level.\n\n<p>At the time the Haggadah was created, it was safe for the rabbis to assume that most Jewish adults had the knowledge available to teach their children about the Exodus. At that time, perhaps, all adults did know about the Exodus from Egypt and the Jews' struggle against Pharaoh. However, in subsequent generations, not all adults are familiar with the story told in the Haggadah, with the people of Israel, with their history. It isn't only the children that need to be taught, but their parents as well. To complicate matters, each Jew is coming from a different orientation with regard to his or her Judaism.</p>\n\n<p>In today's world, Jews may identify themselves in a variety of ways. One may be ritually, culturally, or intellectually orientedor unconnected. And yet, however modified one's Judaism may be, there is still some level of concern about the Jewish people that causes Jews to at least ask the questions about the Exodus from Egypt. If they weren't interested, they wouldn't ask. We must answer them, and enable them to teach their children.</p>\n\n<p>The ritual Jew asks: \"What are the laws that God commanded us? \" This Jew defines herself by the rituals, the laws and guidelines of Pesach. We call on her to seek the meaning that underlies all of these acts, so that they have relevance for all of us today.</p>\n\n<p>The unconnected Jew asks: \"What does this ritual mean to you?\" This Jew feels alienated from the Jewish community and finds it difficult to identify with the rituals, perhaps because of his upbringing or experiences. Yet we recognize that he is still interested, if only because he asks these questions, and we call on him to see these rituals as a way of affirming the universal beliefs that gave rise to them.</p>\n\n<p>The cultural Jew asks: \"What is this all about?\" She shows little concern with the ritual or psychological ramifications of the Exodus, even while embracing this reenactment of our ancestors; flight from Egypt. We call on her to recognize that it was a deep sense of faith that enabled these rituals to transcend the generations. 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For the politically oriented, not uncommonly the French Revolution wins; for Marxists, the Russian Revolution. Christians often point to the life and death of Jesus as the single most important event of history. For Muslims, Mohammed’s revelations and his hegira [exile, 622 CE] have a similar transcendental authority. Yet when Jews observe Passover, they are commemorating what is arguably the most important event of all time — the Exodus from Egypt.</p>\n\n<p>If for no other reason than the fact that the Exodus directly or indirectly generated many of the important events cited by other groups, this is the event of human history. That it was a Jewish event is an eloquent tribute to the extraordinary role the Jewish people have played in human history.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Exodus: History or Mythic Tale? </strong></p>\n\n<p>The Exodus transformed the Jewish people and their ethic. The Ten Commandments open with the words, “I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” Having no other God means giving no absolute status to other forms of divinity or to any human value that demands absolute commitment. Neither money nor power, neither economic nor political system has the right to demand absolute loyalty. All human claims are relative in the presence of God. This is the key to democracy.</p>\n\n<p>Justice Exodus morality meant giving justice to the weak and the poor. Honest weights and measures, interest-free loans to the poor, leaving part of the crops in the field for the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, treating the alien stranger as a native citizen — these are all applications of the Exodus principle to living in this world. Thus, the Exodus, as articulated at Sinai, transformed the Jewish people and their religious ethical system. In as much as Christianity and Islam adopted the Exodus at their core, almost half the world is profoundly shaped by the after effects of the Exodus event.</p>\n\n<p>In modern times, the image of redemption has proven to be the most powerful of all. The rise of productivity and affluence has heightened expectations of the better life. Widely disseminated scientific ideas and conceptions of human freedom carry the same message: do not accept disadvantage or suffering as your fate; rather, let the world be transformed! These factors come together in a secular concept of redemption. By now, humans are so suffused with the vision of their own right to improvement that any revolutionary spark sets off huge conflagrations. In a way, humane socialism is a secularized version of the Exodus’ final triumph. The liberator is dialectical materialism, and the slaves are the proletariat–but the model and the end goal are the same.</p>\n\n<p>Indeed, directly revived images of the Exodus play as powerful a role as Marxism does in the worldwide revolutionary expectations. In South America, the theology of liberation directly touches the hundreds of millions who strive to overcome their poverty. Ongoing Experience The secret of the impact of the Exodus is that it does not present itself as ancient history, a one-time event. Since the key way to remember the Exodus is reenactment, the event offers itself as an ongoing experience in human history. As free people relive the Exodus, it turns memory into moral dynamic. The experience of slavery that breaks and crushes slaves does not destroy free people. It evokes feelings of repulsion and determination to help others escape that state.</p>\n\n<p>As participants eat the bitter herb, they remember the heartbreaking tale and the death of the children. They also remember that slavery gradually conditions people to accept servitude as the norm. The Israelites fell into that trap and were delivered, not by their own merit. The lesson is that a slave needs help to get started on liberation. In the seder ritual, the family also acts as the transmitter of memory. The past is not excised but becomes an active part of the lives of the participants. Parents tell the story to children. At the same time, the children are not merely dependent. They ask questions and participate in the discussion. They must become involved for it is essential that they join in the unfinished work of liberation. This is why when Pharaoh offered to let the adult Jews leave Egypt to worship God if the children were left behind, Moses rejected the offer, “With our youth and our elders we will go.”</p>\n\n<p>The seder order is deliberately designed to hold the children’s attention, to fascinate them with their people’s history so that they will feel impelled to take up the covenantal task. Thus, by the magic of shared values and shared story, the Exodus is not some ancient event, however important, it is the ever-recurring redemption. It is the event from ancient times that is occurring tonight; it is the past and future redemption of humanity. The Exodus is the most influential historical event of all time because it did not happen once but recurs whenever people open up and enter into the event.</p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11065/exodus_6.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11065/conversions/exodus_6-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 251, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Impact of the Exodus | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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Yes, we have left the dusty soils of Egypt, and we have crossed a Red Sea that had for years been hardened by long and piercing winter of massive resistance, but before we reach the majestic shored of the promised land, there will still be gigantic mountains of opposition ahead and prodigious hilltops of injustice.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and the comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until those who live on the outskirts of hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family will live in a decent sanitary home.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be transformed into bright tomorrows of quality integrated education.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until men and women...will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not on the basis of the color of their skin.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.</p>\n\n<p>Let us be dissatisfied until the day when nobody will shout, \"White Power!\" when nobody will shout, \"Black Power!\" but everybody will talk about God's power and human power.</p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Martin Luther King, Jr. ", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "A Haggadah for Justice ", "slug": "haggadah-justice", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11067/mlk_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11067/conversions/mlk_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 354, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dissatisfied... | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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It serves as a symbol of Miriam’s Well, which was the source of water for the Israelites in the desert. Putting a Miriam’s Cup on your table is a way of making your seder more inclusive.</p>\n\n<p>It is also a way of drawing attention to the importance of Miriam and the other women of the Exodus story, women who have sometimes been overlooked but about whom our tradition says, \"If it wasn’t for the righteousness of women of that generation we would not have been redeemed from Egypt\" (Babylonian Talmud, <a href=\"http://www.sefaria.org/Sotah.9b?lang=he-en\">Sotah 9b</a>).</p>\n\n<p>There are many legends about Miriam’s well. It is said to have been a magical source of water that followed the Israelites for 40 years because of the merit of Miriam. The waters of this well were said to be healing and sustaining. Thus Miriam’s Cup is a symbol of all that sustains us through our own journeys, while Elijah’s Cup is a symbol of a future Messianic time.</p>\n\n<p>This is the Cup of Miriam, the cup of living waters. Let us remember the Exodus from Egypt. These are the living waters, God’s gift to Miriam, which gave new life to Israel as we struggled with ourselves in the wilderness. 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Then came the ox<br />\nAnd drank the water<br />\nThat quenched the fire<br />\nThat burned the stick<br />\nThat beat the dog<br />\nThat bit the cat<br />\nThat ate the kid<br />\nMy father bought<br />\nFor two zuzim.<br />\nAn only kid! An only kid!</p>\n\n<p>8. Then came the butcher<br />\nAnd killed the ox<br />\nThat drank the water<br />\nThat quenched the fire<br />\nThat burned the stick<br />\nThat beat the dog<br />\nThat bit the cat<br />\nThat ate the kid<br />\nMy father bought<br />\nFor two zuzim.<br />\nAn only kid! An only kid!</p>\n\n<p>9. Then came the angel of death<br />\nAnd slew the butcher<br />\nThat killed the ox <br />\nThat drank the water<br />\nThat quenched the fire<br />\nThat burned the stick<br />\nThat beat the dog<br />\nThat bit the cat<br />\nThat ate the kid<br />\nMy father bought<br />\nFor two zuzim.<br />\nAn only kid! An only kid!</p>\n\n<p>10. Then came the Holy One, blest be He!<br />\nAnd destroyed the angel of death<br />\nThat slew the butcher<br />\nThat killed the ox<br />\nThat drank the water<br />\nThat quenched the fire<br />\nThat burned the stick<br />\nThat beat the dog<br />\nThat bit the cat<br />\nThat ate the kid<br />\nMy father bought<br />\nFor two zuzim.<br />\nAn only kid! An only kid!</p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Conclusion", "slug": "conclusion" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 292, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Chad Gadya | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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We perform the first without a blessing now, prior to dipping <em>karpas</em>, which does not constitute a meal. We will wash with a blessing before <em>Mozi/Matzah</em>, in preparation for eating the festival meal.</p>\n\n<p>The symbolic washing of the hands that we now perform recalls the story of Miriam's Well. Legend tells us that this well followed Miriam, sister of Moses, through the desert, sustaining the Jews in their wanderings. Filled with waters of life, the well was a source of strength and renewal to all who drew from it. One drink from its waters was said to alert the heart, mind and soul, and make the meaning of Torah become more clear.</p>\n\n<p>In Hebrew, urchatz means, “washing” or “cleansing.” In Aramaic, sister language to Hebrew, urchatz means “trusting.” As we wash each others’ hands, let us rejoice in this act of trust, and reflect on the sources of hope and trust we want to bring into the world for ourselves and each other.</p>\n\n<p> <em>The leader can wash hands symbolically for everyone of the family can pass a bowl &amp; pitcher around the table, each pouring a few drops of water onto her/his neighbor’s hands</em> </p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Velveteen Rabbi's Haggadah for Passover", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Urchatz", "slug": "urchatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 288, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Hand-washing | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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The host should wrap up the larger of the pieces and, at some point between now and the end of dinner, hide it. This piece is called the afikomen, literally “dessert” in Greek. After dinner, the guests will have to hunt for the afikomen in order to wrap up the meal… and win a prize.</p>\n\n<p>We eat matzah in memory of the quick flight of our ancestors from Egypt. As slaves, they had faced many false starts before finally being let go. So when the word of their freedom came, they took whatever dough they had and ran with it before it had the chance to rise, leaving it looking something like matzah.</p>\n\n<p>Uncover and hold up the three pieces of matzah and say:</p>\n\n<p>This is the bread of poverty which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. All who are hungry, come and eat; all who are needy, come and celebrate Passover with us. This year we are here; next year we will be in Israel. This year we are slaves; next year we will be free.</p>\n\n<p>These days, matzah is a special food and we look forward to eating it on Passover. Imagine eating only matzah, or being one of the countless people around the world who don’t have enough to eat.</p>\n\n<p>What does the symbol of matzah say to us about oppression in the world, both people literally enslaved and the many ways in which each of us is held down by forces beyond our control? How does this resonate with events happening now?</p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "JewishBoston.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/164670/Matan-Four-Sons-08_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/164670/conversions/Matan-Four-Sons-08_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 233, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Yachatz - Breaking the Middle Matzah | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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We regret that our freedom came at the cost of the Egyptians’ suffering, for we are all human beings made in the image of God. We pour out a drop of wine for each of the plagues as we recite them.</p>\n\n<p>Dip a finger into your wine glass for a drop for each plague.</p>\n\n<p>These are the ten plagues which God brought down on the Egyptians:</p>\n\n<p>Blood | dam | <strong>דָּם</strong></p>\n\n<p>Frogs | tzfardeiya | <strong>צְפַרְדֵּֽעַ</strong></p>\n\n<p>Lice | kinim | <strong>כִּנִּים</strong></p>\n\n<p>Beasts | arov | <strong>עָרוֹב</strong></p>\n\n<p>Cattle disease | dever | <strong>דֶּֽבֶר</strong></p>\n\n<p>Boils | sh’chin | <strong>שְׁחִין</strong></p>\n\n<p>Hail | barad | <strong>בָּרָד</strong></p>\n\n<p>Locusts | arbeh |<strong> אַרְבֶּה</strong></p>\n\n<p>Darkness | choshech | <strong>חֹֽשֶׁךְ</strong></p>\n\n<p>Death of the Firstborn | makat b’chorot | <strong>מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת</strong></p>\n\n<p>The Egyptians needed ten plagues because after each one they were able to come up with excuses and explanations rather than change their behavior. Could we be making the same mistakes? What are the plagues in your life? What are the plagues in our world today? What behaviors do we need to change to fix them?</p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "JewishBoston.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/164671/Exodus---10-Plagues.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/164671/conversions/Exodus---10-Plagues-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 1909, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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This act of washing our hands is accompanied by a blessing, for in this moment we feel our People's story more viscerally, having just retold it during Maggid. Now, having re-experienced the majesty of the Jewish journey from degradation to dignity, we raise our hands in holiness, remembering once again that our liberation is bound up in everyone else's. Each step we take together with others towards liberation is blessing, and so we recite:</p>\n\n<p><em>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, asher kidshanu bemitvotav vetzivanu al netilat yadayim.</em></p>\n\n<p>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֱלֹֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶך הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ עַל נְטִילַת יָדָיִּם.</p>\n\n<p>Blessed are you our God, who has sanctified us with commandments and instructed us regarding lifting up our hands.</p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley, CA", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Rachtzah", "slug": "rachtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 281, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Rachtzah - Washing Hands | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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Some people will also include charoset in the sandwich to remind us that God’s kindness helped relieve the bitterness of slavery.</p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "JewishBoston.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11087/hillel.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11087/conversions/hillel-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Koreich", "slug": "koreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 347, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Hillel Sandwich - Koreich | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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We don’t totally eradicate the taste of the bitter with the taste of the sweet… but doesn’t the sweet mean more when it’s layered over the bitterness?</p>\n\n<p>ברוּךְ אַתָּה יְיַָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל אֲכִילַת מרוֹר</p>\n\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al achilat maror.</p>\n\n<p>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who made us holy through obligations, commanding us to eat bitter herbs.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Charoset Recipe - Jane Schwab </strong></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Wandering is Over Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maror", "slug": "maror" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 267, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Maror | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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We’re at least three glasses of...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>Singing songs that praise God | hallel | הַלֵּל</strong></p>\n\n<p>This is the time set aside for singing. We’re at least three glasses of wine into the night, so just roll with it.</p>\n\n<p>Fourth Glass of Wine</p>\n\n<p>As we come to the end of the seder, we drink one more glass of wine. With this final cup, we give thanks for the experience of celebrating Passover together, for the traditions that help inform our daily lives and guide our actions and aspirations.</p>\n\n<p>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן:</p>\n\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.</p>\n\n<p>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.</p>\n\n<p>Drink the fourth and final glass of wine!</p>\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "The Wandering is Over Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11089/4thcup.gif", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11089/conversions/4thcup-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 374, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Hallal - The Fourth Cup of Wine | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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At the same time, we fill an additional cup and set it as...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>Welcoming Elijah</strong></p>\n\n<p>We now fill the fourth and final cup of wine.</p>\n\n<p>At the same time, we fill an additional cup and set it aside for the prophet Eliyahu (Elijah). This practice came about because their was a difference of opinion among the sages, as to whether there should be four or five cups at the seder. 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We make room at our seder table and in our hearts for those in southern Sudan and in Mauritania who are now where we have been.</p>\n\n<p>We have known such treatment in our own history. Like the women and children enslaved in Sudan today, we have suffered while others stood by and pretended not to see, not to know. We have eaten the bitter herb, we have been taken from our families and brutalized. We have experienced the horror of being forcibly converted. In the end, we have come to know in our very being that none can be free until all are free.</p>\n\n<p>And so, we commit and recommit ourselves to work for the freedom of these people. May the taste of this ‘bread of affliction’ remain in our mouths until they can eat in peace and security. Knowing that all people are Yours, O God, we will urge our government and all governments to do as You once commanded Pharaoh on our behalf,  <em>‘Shalah et Ami!</em>  Let MY People Go!'”</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Rabbi Joel Soffin", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 306, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Fighting Contemporary Slavery | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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I asked everyone to take a segment of the orange, make the blessing over fruit and eat it as a gesture of solidarity with other who are marginalized within the Jewish community.  I felt that an orange was suggestive of something else: The fruitfulness for all Jews when each and everyone one of us 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 repudiating the exclusion within Judaism.\"</p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Susannah Heschel", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11090/orange_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11090/conversions/orange_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 285, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Orange | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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Despite the blood and destruction, Brought by one man,...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>I do believe, with all my heart,</p>\n\n<p>In the natural Goodness of Man.</p>\n\n<p>Despite the blood and destruction,</p>\n\n<p>Brought by one man, trying to be God,</p>\n\n<p>In the Goodness of Man, I do believe.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do believe, with all my heart,</p>\n\n<p>That God gave man the blessing and the curse.</p>\n\n<p>Man can select the curse of envy, hatred and prejudices,</p>\n\n<p>Or the blessing of love, harmony and beauty.</p>\n\n<p>Despite the painful curses of the past,</p>\n\n<p>In the blessing of the Creator, I do believe.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do believe, with all my heart,</p>\n\n<p>That God created a beautiful world,</p>\n\n<p>The sun and the trees, the flowers and the bees.</p>\n\n<p>And the best way to serve God, is</p>\n\n<p>To enjoy the fruits of His labor of love.</p>\n\n<p>Despite the painful memories from the past,</p>\n\n<p>In the joyful celebration of life, I do believe.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do believe with all my heart,</p>\n\n<p>That God has created man in image of His own.</p>\n\n<p>And killing of man, is like killing of God.</p>\n\n<p>Despite the massacres in Rwanda, the cleansing in Bosnia,</p>\n\n<p>The folly of Muslim fanatics, and the cruelty of Pot Pol.</p>\n\n<p>In the love and compassion of the Creator, I do believe.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe with all my heart,</p>\n\n<p>That the Messiah and the Kingdom of Heaven will come;</p>\n\n<p>When man will conquer his destructive urge,</p>\n\n<p>And learn how to live in harmony with nature and himself.</p>\n\n<p>When all the preachers of hate will be silenced,</p>\n\n<p>And man will become his brother’s keeper.</p>\n\n<p>When man will stop killing man, in the name of God,</p>\n\n<p>And nation will not lift weapons against nation.</p>\n\n<p>When it will be, I do not know, but</p>\n\n<p>Despite all the signs to the contrary.</p>\n\n<p>In the dawn of a Better World, I do believe.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Alexander Kimel", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 291, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Creed of a Holocaust Survivor | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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", "author": "Rachel Schulties", "author_handle": "rschulties127686", "author_initials": "RS", "covertext": "Ask virtually anyone: “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Passover seder?” and the response is likely to be “Of course!” Yet, Jesu...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Ask virtually anyone: “Was Jesus’ Last Supper a Passover seder?” and the response is likely to be “Of course!”</p>\n\n<p>Yet, Jesus could not have known what a “seder” was, let alone have modeled his Last Supper after one. The elements of even the primitive seder originated <em>decades after he died</em>.</p>\n\n<p>The Gospels date Jesus’ ministry to the period of Pontius Pilate, Roman prefect of Judea from 26 C.E. to early 37 C.E. Jesus’ year of death is unknown; scholars settle on between 30 and 33 C.E.</p>\n\n<p>At that time, the core element of Passover observance had been Jerusalem’s sacrificial cult, from 621 B.C.E. (when the biblical mandate first appeared) up until 70 C.E. (the destruction of the Second Temple). Jewish families brought paschal (Passover) lambs for sacrifice on the Temple altar as biblically prescribed: “Thou shalt sacrifice the Passover offering…in the place which the Lord shall…cause His name to dwell [Jerusalem’s Temple]” (Deuteronomy 16:2, 5–6); and the practice of King Josiah: “In the eighteenth year of King Josiah [621 B.C.E.] was this Passover kept…in Jerusalem” (Second Kings 23:21–23). For the ceremony, the <em>kohanim </em>(priests) conducted the sacrificial rite. Then families retrieved and consumed their meat as the main part of their Passover meal, which also included unleavened bread and bitter herbs (recalling the Hebrews’ enslavement in Egypt).</p>\n\n<p>Passover meals Jesus experienced in his lifetime would have had to be along these Temple-centered lines.</p>\n\n<p>Then, in 70 C.E., approximately 40 years after Jesus’ death, Rome destroyed the Second Jerusalem Temple, thus ending the required central component of Passover observance, as sacrifice of paschal lambs by the Temple priests was no longer possible.</p>\n\n<p>Instead, the early rabbis eventually introduced an inchoate, rudimentary practice that over the ensuing decades evolved into a new way of observing Passover. This would become known as a “seder,” Hebrew for “order,” because the ceremony followed a set sequence of liturgical recitations and ritual foods narrating the Passover saga, ultimately to be governed by an instructional guide called the <em>haggadah</em>. In our oldest reference, the early third century rabbinic compendium, the Mishnah, we read that Gamaliel II, the greatest rabbi of the post-destruction era (likely during the late 80s C.E.), customarily said: “Whoever does not mention [expatiate upon] these three things on Passover does not discharge one’s duty...: the Passover offering [lamb], unleavened bread, and bitter herbs” (<em>Pesahim</em> 10:5). Thus the core Temple-centered observance mutated from sacrificing lambs into drawing upon Passover motifs to retell the Hebrews’ escape from Egypt.</p>\n\n<p>Centuries of further embellishment and refinement produced the full-fledged, mature seders we know today—the kind that many modern churches adopt and adapt in “reenacting” the Last Supper even though no such seder could have been practiced during Jesus’ day.<br />\n<br />\n<strong>How the Confusion Began</strong></p>\n\n<p>If the Last Supper could not have been a seder, what led to modern-day associations of the two?</p>\n\n<p>Early Christian theology contended that the primary purpose of the Jewish Bible (as yet Christians’ only scripture) was to signal Jesus’ coming. The Passover saga thereby became a major filter for heralding Jesus’ uniqueness. In the 50s C.E., Paul of Tarsus wrote of the “sacrifice” of Christ, “our paschal lamb,” urging Christians to avoid the “leaven of malice and evil” in favor of “the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Corinthians 5:6ff.). In 71 C.E., in the wake of the Temple’s fall, Mark—followed by Matthew ca. 85 and Luke ca. 95—reimagined Jesus’ Thursday night Last Supper (ca. 30 C.E.) as having been a Passover meal, most likely to correlate Passover, the festival of physical and political freedom for the Jews, with Jesus’ death, which Christians claimed brought spiritual freedom, indeed salvation, for humanity. John, meanwhile, preferring to interpret Jesus himself as the paschal lamb, set that Passover meal on Friday night, 24 hours after Jesus’ Last Supper, so as to coincide Jesus’ death with that of the Passover lambs sacrificed shortly before that Friday evening’s Passover meal. Thus, the various Gospel writers embellished Last Supper narrations with their own preferred Passover motifs in service to Christian theology.</p>\n\n<p>In time, Passover-Easter became <em>the</em> most dangerous season for Jews in Christian Europe. Medieval mythology came to cast Jews as kidnapping and killing Christian children for their blood (supposedly needed to bake Passover matzah), an accusation resulting in torture, even death, for countless Jews charged with the (seasonal) reenactment of their ancestors’ alleged murder of Jesus. Some Jews were even accused of deriving and adapting their seder from the Lord’s Supper!</p>\n\n<p>No wonder that, in recent times, Jews welcomed an astonishing pivot when Christians began to deem seders splendid vehicles for experiencing a taste of what Jesus’ Jewish life had been genuinely all about. Responding in kind, Jews were now thrilled to invite Christians to local synagogues or Jewish homes to experience seders themselves.</p>\n\n<p>Once the seder became imported into churches, however, the pendulum swung disturbingly too far. Passover was now transformed into an overtly Christian celebration—wherein Jewish <em>haggadot</em> were photocopied and repackaged with insertions of a Christological nature blatantly contrary to original rabbinic intent. Such fanciful notions included the death of the firstborn foreshadowing the death of Jesus (God’s firstborn); the lamb’s blood on wooden doorposts of Israelite homes in Egypt anticipating Jesus’ blood on the wooden cross; the passing through the Red Sea heralding the sacrament of baptism—the Red Sea so named because of the saving blood of Jesus; the three pieces of matzah (centered on the table) representing the Trinity; the breaking of the middle matzah recalling the breaking of the body of Jesus (second person of the Trinity); the stripes on the matzah reminiscent of the lash marks from Jesus’ whippings; and the matzah’s tiny perforations recalling the stigmata piercing Jesus’ hands, feet, and side.</p>\n\n<p>Nowadays, these false notions continue to be promulgated and accepted in certain Christian circles, primarily among conservative Evangelicals, who welcome seder demonstrations by “Jews-for-Jesus” and “Messianic Jews.” Fortunately, certain major Christian denominations—especially Roman Catholicism and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America—issued formal directives, even outright prohibitions, to their constituents against treading on Jewish sensitivities by staging misleading Passover celebrations.</p>\n\n<p>In short, Jesus never practiced the kind of Passover meal that many churches stage today to “reenact” the Last Supper. Nor could this meal (ca. 30 C.E.) have been a seder, because in Jesus’ time the festival was still observed as a Jerusalem Temple rite, without the set sequence of seder elements that became rudimentally defined in the decades after the Temple’s fall some 40 years later—not to mention the seder’s far more detailed embellishments in the centuries to come.</p>\n\n<p><em><strong>Michael J. Cook</strong> is the HUC-JIR Bronstein Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies and author of </em><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Jews-Engage-Testament-ebook/dp/B001E9711W\">Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment </a><em>(Jewish Lights Publishing, 3rd printing 2012).</em></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Reform Judaism Magazine", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 339, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Was Jesus' Last Supper the Passover Seder? | Passover haggadah by Rachel Schulties", "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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In either case, for most of us these terms have lost their significance in today's \"melting pot\" North American society. Nevertheless, there still seems to be some debate about what you may or may not eat on Passover. Let me see if I can clarify this for you (or complicate your menu for your seder).</p>\n\n<p>On <a href=\"http://www.reformjudaism.org/passover\">Passover</a>, one is not to have <em>chametz</em> – leavening – in your home. By <em>chametz</em>, the tradition means those grains from which matzah may be baked: wheat, barley, oats, rye, and spelt. No other foodstuffs are regarded as <em>chametz</em>. In 1810 the Reform Movement in Germany determined that they would be following the Sephardic practice of not categorizing any legumes or rice as <em>chametz</em>. Therefore, for more than 200 years, my family has been following this Reform (not “Sephardic”) practice by eating string beans and rice with our matzah ball soup.</p>\n\n<p>The prohibition found its roots in France in the thirteenth century and then spread through Europe. There was no explanation, at the time, for excluding these foods during Passover. In actuality, allowing rice and legumes predates Sephardic Jews. Prohibiting these foods actually contradicts the Talmud (<em>Pesachim</em> 35a and 114b), which allows them. 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Either way, you’re guaranteed interesting discussion.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>What do Passover and Easter have in common? (Think spring festivals, eggs, and redemption, to start.) How do they differ?</li>\n\t<li>Think for a moment about the future of the Jewish community. Do you think your great-grandchildren will be sitting at a Passover seder someday? Why or why not?</li>\n\t<li>Which symbol on <a href=\"http://www.reformjudaism.org/interactive-seder-plate\">the seder plate</a> do you think is the most important?</li>\n\t<li>What if \"Bitter Herb\" is your brother-in-law or a family friend? How should such an individual be treated at the seder? </li>\n\t<li>It is traditional for the youngest person at a seder to ask <a href=\"http://www.reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/passover/four-questions\">the Four Questions</a>. If you were to create a new tradition for the asking of the Four Questions, who would you choose to ask the questions and why?</li>\n\t<li>Tradition says that Elijah the Prophet is supposed to announce the coming of the Messiah. If you could send Elijah to any spot on the globe to make the announcement of the Messiah, where would you send him?</li>\n\t<li>Some people say <a href=\"http://www.reformjudaism.org/bag-plagues\">the Ten Plagues </a>are part of tradition and so they should be included in the seder. Others say the plagues lead us to inappropriately exalt in the adversities suffered by the Egyptians. Others say that Jews take a drop of wine from the cup for each plague, acknowledging that freedom was won at a cost. Do you believe in a God who punishes people? Would God slay the Egyptians’ firstborn sons? What do you think? Should the Ten Plagues be part of the seder?</li>\n\t<li>Do you believe we can eventually eradicate wars, poverty, and starvation? 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