{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "rabbis-organizing-rabbis-immigration-seder-ritual", "title": "Rabbis Organizing Rabbis Immigration Seder Ritual", "author": "Miriam Farber", "author_handle": "miriamfarber", "author_initials": "MF", "covertext": "For a well-formatted printable ritual, and for more information about Rabbis Organizing Rabbis, please visit http://www....", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "For a well-formatted printable ritual, and for more information about Rabbis Organizing Rabbis, please visit <a href=\"http://www.rac.org/ror/\">http://www.rac.org/ror/</a>\n\n<p>The traditional Ha Lachma Anya is found at the beginning of the Maggid, or “storytelling,” section of the Haggadah. This ritual connects both our Exodus story and the Jewish immigrant narrative to the reality of aspiring Americans today.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>This is the Bread of Affliction - <em> Ha Lachma Anya</em> </strong></u></p>\n\n<p><strong>Reader:</strong><strong> </strong>In America, over 11 million undocumented immigrants live in our midst.We identify with their struggles from our memory as Jews freed from Egyptian servitude, and as Americans living in a country built by immigrants.As we look upon the broken middle matzah before us, this is our story - an immigrant story -- in three parts:Memory, Action, Vision.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Memory</strong></u></p>\n\n<p> <em>[Leader uncovers and raises the matzah.] </em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>All read: </strong><strong>Ha lachma anya – This is the bread of poverty and affliction that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Reader: </strong>We remember our ancestors’ fear and bravery in facing the new unknown, filled with dangers and opportunities. Poet Marge Piercy recalls our people’s past emigrations:</p>\n\n<p>…The courage to walk out of the pain that is known\ninto the pain that cannot be imagined,\nmapless, walking into the wilderness, going\nbarefoot with a canteen into the desert;\nstuffed in the stinking hold of a rotting ship\nsailing off the map into dragons' mouths.\nCathay, India, Serbia, goldeneh medina,\nleaving bodies by the way like abandoned treasure.\nSo they walked out of Egypt. So they bribed their way\nout of Russia under loads of straw; so they steamed\nout of the bloody smoking charnelhouse of Europe\non overloaded freighters forbidden all ports--\nout of pain into death or freedom or a differentpainful dignity, into squalor and politics…\n </p>\n\n<p>“Maggid,” <em>The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme</em>. Knopf: September 2000, p. 166-167.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Action</strong></u></p>\n\n<p><strong>All read:Let all who are hungry come and eat. Let all who are in need, come and share this Pesach meal.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Reader:</strong>The Seder demands action! American Jewish poet Emma Lazarus’s words reflected real action when they were engraved on the Statue of Liberty one hundred years ago:</p>\n\n<p>Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand\nA mighty woman with a torch, whose flame\nIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name\nMother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand\nGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command\nThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.\n\"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!\" cries she\nWith silent lips. \"Give me your tired, your poor,\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Vision</strong></u></p>\n\n<p><strong>All read: </strong><strong>This year we are still here – next year in the Land of Israel. This year we are still slaves – next year free people.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Reader: </strong>This year undocumented immigrants still live in fear in the shadows of a broken immigration system. Next year may over 11 million aspiring Americans step into the light of freedom and walk the path towards citizenship.</p>\n\n<p>This year, our eyes are still clouded by the plague of darkness, as the Gerer Rav taught: “The darkness in Egypt was so dense that people could not see one another. This was not a physical darkness, but a spiritual darkness in which people were unable to see the plight and pain of their neighbors.” Next year, may we replace darkness with light and truly see our neighbors and be moved to act with them to fix our broken immigration system.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Discussion: Today, the Reform Jewish Movement is working to help create a common-sense American immigration process. 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