{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "10-plagues-37", "title": "10 Plagues", "author": "Sasha Korn", "author_handle": "sashaekorn77938", "author_initials": "SK", "covertext": "Leader: Let us all refill our cups. [Take turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Leader:<br />\nLet us all refill our cups.</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Take turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>Tonight we drink four cups of the fruit of the vine.<br />\nThere are many explanations for this custom.<br />\nThey may be seen as symbols of various things:<br />\nthe four corners of the earth, for freedom must live everywhere;<br />\nthe four seasons of the year, for freedom's cycle must last through all the seasons;<br />\nor the four matriarchs: Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel.</p>\n\n<p>A full cup of wine symbolizes complete happiness.<br />\nThe triumph of Passover is diminished by the sacrifice of many human lives<br />\nwhen ten plagues were visited upon the people of Egypt.<br />\nIn the story, the plagues that befell the Egyptians resulted from the decisions of tyrants,<br />\nbut the greatest suffering occurred among those who had no choice but to follow.</p>\n\n<p>It is fitting that we mourn their loss of life, and express our sorrow over their suffering.<br />\nFor as Jews and as Humanists we cannot take joy in the suffering of others.<br />\nTherefore, let us diminish the wine in our cups<br />\nas we recall the ten plagues that befell the Egyptian people.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>As we recite the name of each plague, in English and then in Hebrew,<br />\nplease dip a finger in your wine and then touch your plate to remove the drop.</p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p>Dip a finger or a spoon 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 |דָּם</p>\n\n<p>Frogs | tzfardeiya |צְפַרְדֵּֽעַ</p>\n\n<p>Lice | kinim |כִּנִּים</p>\n\n<p>Beasts | arov |עָרוֹב</p>\n\n<p>Cattle disease | dever |דֶּֽבֶר</p>\n\n<p>Boils | sh’chin |שְׁחִין</p>\n\n<p>Hail | barad |בָּרָד</p>\n\n<p>Locusts | arbeh |אַרְבֶּה</p>\n\n<p>Darkness | choshech |חֹֽשֶׁךְ</p>\n\n<p>Death of the Firstborn | makat b’chorot |מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Take turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>In the same spirit, our celebration today also is shadowed<br />\nby our awareness of continuing sorrow and oppression in all parts of the world.<br />\nAncient plagues are mirrored in modern tragedies.</p>\n\n<p>In our own time, as in ancient Egypt, ordinary people suffer and die<br />\nas a result of the actions of the tyrants who rule over them.<br />\nWhile we may rejoice in the defeat of tyrants in our own time,<br />\nwe must also express our sorrow at the suffering of the many innocent people<br />\nwho had little or no choice but to follow.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>As the pain of others diminishes our joys,<br />\nlet us once more diminish the ceremonial drink of our festival<br />\nas we together recite the names of these modern plagues:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Hunger</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>War</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Tyranny</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Greed</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Bigotry</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Injustice</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Poverty</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Ignorance</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Pollution of the Earth </strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Indifference to Suffering</strong></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": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 214, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "10 Plagues | Passover haggadah by Sasha Korn", "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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For, as the prophet Isaiah said:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Group: </strong>They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation, they shall never again know war. But they shall sit every one under their vines and fig trees, and none shall make them afraid.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Blessing: </strong>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.<br />\n<em>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.</em></p>\n\n<p><strong>DAIYENU:</strong> It would have been enough:</p>\n\n<p><em>Each guests reads one verse, or guests may read/sing together:</em></p>\n\n<p>Had You taken us out of slavery, but not torn the Sea apart for us, it would have been enough for us!</p>\n\n<p>Had You brought us through it dry, but not sunk our oppressors in its midst, it would have been enough for us!</p>\n\n<p>Had You sunk our oppressors in its midst, but not freely fed us manna, it would have been enough for us!</p>\n\n<p>Had You freely fed us manna, but not rested us with Shabbat, it would have been enough for us!</p>\n\n<p>Had You rested us with Shabbat, but not given us the Teaching, it would have been enough for us!</p>\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": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 230, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Second Cup | Passover haggadah by Sasha Korn", "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 provides a setting of fa...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The Passover Seder is one of the most important celebrationson the Jewish cultural calendar.<br />\nIt provides a setting of family love and unityin which all Jews can rededicate themselves to the ideal of human freedom and growth.</p>\n\n<p>The ritual of the occasion involves the use of certain symbolic foods:</p>\n\n<p>Leader:The Passover Seder Plate is the centerpiece of the Passover meal and is the heart of the Passover Seder.</p>\n\n<p>The foods that are placed on the Seder Plate are integral to the telling of the Passover story. There are eight different foods on the plate and each serving a purpose in the retelling in the story of the Exodus..</p>\n\n<p>MATZAH Leader:Why matzah? Why do we eat unleavened bread? (holding up matzah)</p>\n\n<p>Participant: Matzah is one of the most iconic elements of Passover. During the Exodus from Egypt, the Jews fled so quickly that there was no time to waste waiting for bread to rise. Instead, they ate unleavened matzah in their desperate escape from slavery. What was once an act of necessity is now celebrated in triumphant, everlasting joy. Jews choose to eat matzah in honor of their ancestors, and to celebrate their freedom. This special bread is included on the Seder plate, or next to it.</p>\n\n<p>BITTER HERBS Leader: Why maror? Why do we eat these bitter herbs? (pointing to maror)</p>\n\n<p>Particpant: Maror are bitter herbs, such as endives or horseradish, which are eaten to remind us of how the Egyptians made the lives of our forefathers bitter. As it is written in the Bible: \"And they embittered their lives with hard labor, with mortar and bricks with all sorts pf work in the field, with all the tasks ruthlessly imposed upon them.\"</p>\n\n<p>CHAROSET Leader: Why charoset? Why do we eat this sweet mixture? 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The salt water we dip it in is to remind us of the tears that the slaves had while they were forced to work.</p>\n\n<p>PESACH Leader:Why pesach? Why did our forefathers eat the Passover lamb in the days of the Holy Temple? (pointing to pesach)</p>\n\n<p>Participant: They ate is so as to remember that God, blessed be He, passed over the houses of our ancestor in Egypt. As it is written in the Bible: \"And you shall say it is the Passover sacrifice for God who passed over the houses of the Children of Israel in Egypt, when He killed the Egyptians and spared our houses. And the people bowed their heads in worship.\"</p>\n\n<p>BEITZAH Leader:Why beitzah? Why do have this roasted egg? (pointing to roasted egg)</p>\n\n<p>Participant: Beitzah is an egg, which symbolizes the spring, renewal, and rejuvenation.</p>\n\n<p>AN ORANGE Leader: Why do have this orange? 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