Answering Our Questions

Noah Engel

We are the Jewish people

Jewish Traditions were slaves in Egypt

Human beings were slaves to Pharaoh

Human beings are slaves to each other

The Jewish people are enslaved human beings

God stretched his arm out of Egypt

God took his strong hand out of slavery

The Jewish people are the limbs of God

Human beings were slaves to God

Human beings were punished by God

The Egyptians are human beings

Human beings received the Torah

Human beings disrespected God

We are human beings

Human beings passed down the story of Passover

Human beings remembered our struggles

The readers are human beings

haggadah Section: -- Four Questions

Featured clips

-- Four Children

Four Children/Teenagers & Seven Young Adults - 2015

by Marc Fertik

Traditionally, The Four Sons/Daughters include a wise one, a wicked (or rebellious) one, a simple one and one who does not even know enough to ask. Each of the first three ask questions about the Seder, essentially "Explain all this to me - what are my responsibilities?" "What has all this nonsense you are babbling about got to do with me?" and "What IS all this anyway?" while the fourth is silent - requiring the adults to be proactive in providing...

Songs

Glory, from the move 'Selma'

by Haggadot

Introduction

Four Alternative Questions

by HIAS

Following the framework of the Four Questions of the Passover haggadah, we ask four alternative questions for discussion. These questions are meant to spark conversations that can happen throughout the seder. First Question Read this narrative aloud and then discuss the question below. “When I found out I got into the University, I immediately called my ‘real’ mom in Afghanistan, whom I haven’t seen since I was 14. My family, which belongs to the Hazaras, lived under the constant threat of...

Introduction

Prologue - Passover 2015

by Judy Chicago & Donald Woodman

I write this year’s Prologue as Israel is going to the polls to decide whether to replace its present right-wing prime minister with the Zionist Union, a center-left political alliance. Whatever the outcome, chances are that Israel’s recent history of fractured politics and short-lived coalitions will probably continue. But why am I writing about Israel? you might ask. Aren’t there enough issues here at home for us to deal with? Perhaps it is because of the disturbing rise of anti-Semitism in...

-- Exodus Story

Maggid & Persecution of Native Americans

by Jewish Solidarity with Native American People (JSNAP)

Use this piece in tandem with the telling of the Exodus story. Think about the connection between the Jewish story of Exodus from Egypt to more contemporary examples of persecution and forced migration. How did the formation of the territory now known as the United States depend upon the forced migration of people already residing on the land? The Hebrews’ Exodus from Egypt is a climactic moment in the Passover story. After suffering for generations as slaves in Egypt, the Hebrews...

Yachatz

Art & Education Bloom in the Desert

by HIAS

The world’s refugee camps are some of the most desolate backdrops against which people fleeing violence and persecution rebuild their lives. The Akre Refugee Camp in Iraq, which houses hundreds of Syrian families, was built out of the remains of a former Saddam Hussein prison. The Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan, one of the world’s most populous refugee camps, consists of endless rows of beige tents and caravans with almost no plant or animal life. Dust storms, heat, and blindingly bright...

Maror

by Arielle Angel

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Cup #2 of Wine

by #Friendseder

Songs

Snow

by Alicia Jo Rabins

http://girlsintrouble.bandcamp.com/track/snow-scorpions-and-spidersA song about Miriam, but later in her life, from the book of Numbers Chapter 12, when she's exiled from the group for a while.

-- Exodus Story

Exodus Story - Drawing Activity

by Made It Myself Books

Maggid - Beginning

Serpent

by Nina Paley

Introduction

Dr. Seuss Anti-Hitler Cartoon

by Haggadot

-- Ten Plagues

The Rabbi and the Supermarket

by Ari Fischthal

A Rabbi who came to America in the 1920's relates the following story: "When I first came into the city, I saw a big store. I walked inside and noticed people taking shopping carts and going aisle to aisle, piling as much food as they wanted into their carts. No one said anything to them, and no one stopped them. People filled up their wagons to their hearts' content. This seemed very strange to me. Indeed, this must be the land...

Maggid - Beginning

Excerpt from I Wasn't One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open, Closed, Open

by The Horowitzes

6. I wasn't one of the six million who died in the Shoah, I wasn't even among the survivors. And I wasn't one of the six hundred thousand who went out of Egypt. I came to the Promised Land by sea. No, I was not in that number, though I still have the fire and the smoke within me, pillars of fire and pillars of smoke that guide me by night and by day. I still have inside me the mad...

Introduction

Social Justice Blessing

by Haggadot

Baruch atah Adonai, eloheinu Melekh ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tsivanu lirdof tzedek Brucha Yah Shechinah, eloheinu Malkat ha-olam, asher kid’shatnu b’mitzvotayha vitzivatnu lirdof tzedek Blessed is the Source, who shows us paths to holiness, and commands us to pursue justice.

More clips from Noah Engel - KJHS 2018

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Dayenu: Would it have been enough?

by Noah Engel - KJHS 2018

David Lipman, Noah Engel, Avi Kaplan-Lipkin Dayenu: Would it have been enough? Passover is about miracles. God does not often enact chains of miracles, so the song “Dayenu” highlights how much God really did for us. The song’s refrain states that each miracle would have been enough for the Israelites. While any one of these miracles alone aided us extraordinarily, none of them were done needlessly. The School of David and the School of Noah gather to discuss God’s miracles and...

-- Four Questions

by Noah Engel - KJHS 2018

Noah Engel Answering Our Questions We are the Jewish people Jewish Traditions were slaves in Egypt Human beings were slaves to Pharaoh Human beings are slaves to each other The Jewish people are enslaved human beings God stretched his arm out of Egypt God took his strong hand out of slavery The Jewish people are the limbs of God Human beings were slaves to God Human beings were punished by God The Egyptians are human beings Human beings received the Torah...