{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "blessing-of-the-oranges", "title": "Blessing of the Oranges", "author": "Michael T. Martinez", "author_handle": "mike-troy", "author_initials": "MM", "covertext": "This orange, what is its meaning?  The orange is not part of everyone's Seder plate, nor is it part of the traditional S...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "\n\n<p>This orange, what is its meaning?  The orange is not part of everyone's Seder plate, nor is it part of the traditional Seder plate.  But Judaism is an ever-evolving religion, and many families now add an orange to the Seder plate as a way of acknowledging the role of Jews who feel marginalized within their community.  Professor Susannah Heschel first spread the use of an orange on the Seder plate within the past few decades.  She would ask each attendee to take a segment of the orange and would then make the blessing over the fruit.  After the blessing, all would eat their segment as a gesture of solidarity with all Jews around this orange-shaped world.  The orange seeds, being the part of the fruit that is not sweet, represent homophobia, bigotry, racism, and general intolerance.  Once the segment is eaten, all spit out the orange seeds onto their plates, to show that they reject such bigotry and accept all Jews and all Peoples into their lives.  (Alternatively, if using seedless oranges, the rind could be left behind, symbolizing that we leave behind that part of the orange which, like such intolerance, is not pleasant.)</p>\n\n<p>On Passover, we especially remember how long ago, we were discriminated against and enslaved.  But even in more recent times, we have suffered from anti-Semitism.  Many think anti-Semitism ended with the Nazi Holocaust or the Soviet pogroms.  But in reality, anti-Semitism continues to this day, from the Middle East where Jews are killed or imprisoned for their faith by extremist regimes and terror organizations, to the streets of the United States where Judaism is targeted in hate crimes more than any other religion.  Hate crimes against any faith or group are a horrible tragedy that must be beaten back, but hate crimes against Jews are largely underreported and ignored.</p>\n\n<p>In the Torah, we are called to love each other as we love ourselves, and to not hold a grudge against each other.  How much more important is it that we treat all Jews, and all people, in the ways the Torah commands, when we are constantly facing hatred from outside sources?  We all deserve to feel love.  And the way that we ensure that those around us feel loved, is to treat them as the Torah commands.  And so, we say the blessing and then eat the sweet oranges and leave the bitterness of intolerance behind.</p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font> <em><font><font><font><span><span>ברוך אתה </span></span></font></font></font><a><font><span><font><font><font><span><span>יי</span></span></font></font></font></span></font></a></em> </font> <em><font><font><font><font> </font></font></font></font></em> <font> <em><a><font><span><font><font><font><span><span>אלוהינו</span></span></font></font></font></span></font></a></em> </font> <em><font><font><font><span><span>, </span></span></font></font></font></em> <font> <em><font><font><font><span><span>מלך העולם</span></span></font></font></font></em> </font> <em><font><font><font><span><span>, </span></span></font></font></font></em> <font> <em><font><font><font><span><span>בורא פרי העץ<br />\nBaruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-Olam, borei porei ha-etz.</span></span></font></font></font></em> </font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font> <em><font><font><font><span><span>Blessed are you, Lord our God, Sovereign of the World, Creator of the Fruit of the Tree.</span></span></font></font></font></em> </font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/205061/haetz.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/205061/conversions/haetz-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Koreich", "slug": "koreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 240, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Blessing of the Oranges | Passover haggadah by Michael T. 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Martinez", "author_handle": "mike-troy", "author_initials": "MM", "covertext": "There is a Talmudic interpretation of the Passover story which says that when the Egyptians had been drowned in the Red...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font>There is a Talmudic interpretation of the Passover story which says that when the Egyptians had been drowned in the Red Sea, after the Lord had led the Israelites through safely, the angels and hosts of Heaven were celebrating. The Lord, blessed be He, grew upset with them. He commanded that they stop celebrating, saying, “Those were my children, too.”</font></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font><span><span>The Israelites may have been His chosen people, but the Egyptians were His children too. And so the Lord, being merciful and loving, mourned having to act against them so severely. This can be seen throughout the entire story of the Lord's servants confronting Pharaoh. Pharaoh and the Egyptians were given so many chances. The Lord wanted His chosen people Israel to be set free, and would ultimately do whatever was needed to get to that goal, but did not want to act too severely against the Egyptians. He started off with lesser plagues. As Pharaoh continued to be stubborn, the Lord gradually increased the severity of the plagues, until the point that He slayed the firstborns of the Egyptians. At this point, finally, Pharaoh allowed the People of Israel to go... but then he changed his mind, and sent his troops after them anyway. And so the Lord our God, leading our people out of slavery, was forced to kill our enemy in the Red Sea.</span></span></font></font></font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font><span><span>Many interpret the spilling of a little wine for each plague to be the showing of compassion for the Egyptians. The Egyptians were the Lord’s children as well, even if they were not His Chosen People. And the general public suffered for the stubbornness of Pharaoh, just as the Israelites suffered in slavery of Pharaoh. It is for that reason that the Lord wept for the Egyptians, and that we should do so as well; even as we remember in joy that we once were slaves but now are free, we must also remember that freedom came at a terrible price.</span></span></font></font></font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "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": 233, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "They Were His Children, Too | Passover haggadah by Michael T. Martinez", "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 char...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font><span><span>The </span></span></font></font></font> <font><font><font><span><span>Traditional Service</span></span></font></font></font> <font><font><font><span><span>, unfrotunately, excludes the meaning of some of the items found on our Seder plate.</span></span></font></font></font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font><span><span>This charoses, for example, what is its meaning? This charoses is made to have the appearance and consistency of the materials that, when we were in slavery, would have been used to make the bricks. And the saltwater that we dipped the greens in near the beginning, what is its meaning? It is the tears that were shed by us when we were enslaved, and by extension a reminder of the tears shed by all those oppressed, up to this modern day.</span></span></font></font></font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font><span><span>And this orange, what is its meaning? The orange is not part of everyone’s Seder plate, nor is it part of the traditional Seder plate. But Judaism is an ever-evolving religion, and many families now add an orange to the Seder plate as a way of acknowledging the role of Jews who feel marginalized within their community. Professor Susannah Heschel first spread the use of an orange on the Seder plate within the past few decades. She would ask each attendee to take a segment of the orange, she would make the blessing over the fruit, and all would eat it as a gesture of solidarity with all Jews around this orange-shaped world. The orange seeds, being the part of the fruit that is not sweet, represent homophobia and general intolerance, and once the segment is eaten we spit out the orange seeds onto our plate, to show that we reject such bigotry and accept all Jews and all Peoples into our lives.</span></span></font></font></font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font><font><span><span>ברוך אתה יי</span></span></font></font></font> <font><span><font><font><font> </font></font></font></span></font> <a><font><span><font><font><font><span><span>אלוהינו</span></span></font></font></font></span></font></a> </font> <font><font><font><span><span>, </span></span></font></font></font> <font> <font><font><font><span><span>מלך העולם</span></span></font></font></font> </font> <font><font><font><span><span>, </span></span></font></font></font> <font> <font><font><font><span><span>בורא פרי העץ</span></span></font></font></font> </font></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><font><span><span>Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei porei ha-etz.</span></span></font></font></font> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Koreich", "slug": "koreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 238, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Other Items on the Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Michael T. 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