{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "blessing-reflection-matzoh", "title": "Blessing & reflection on matzoh", "author": "Alida Liberman", "author_handle": "dreamwriter411", "author_initials": "AL", "covertext": "The blessing over the meal and matzah הBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, hamotzi lechem min ha-aretz.We prais...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><strong>The blessing over the meal and matzah</strong> ה</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, hamotzi lechem min ha-aretz.</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who brings bread from the land.</strong></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al achilat matzah.</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who made us holy through obligations, commanding us to eat matzah.</strong></p><p> <em>Distribute and eat the top and middle matzah for everyone to eat.</em> </p><p><strong>Reader 1: </strong>We are meant to fully experience the flatness and blandness of the <em>matzah</em> , not to mention its visual similarity to cardboard. This is a food that has no real identity of its own. It is completely ready to receive.  It is ready to be impressed upon: in the physical world, by a nice schmeer of guacamole; and in the spiritual world by the profound spiritual imprint that God wants to impress upon each of us.<span>  </span>Eating <em>matzah</em> aligns us toward receptivity to whatever God wants us to have.</p><p><strong>Reader 2: </strong>Unlike most foods, <em>matzah</em> is essentially free of a third dimension. It is flat.<span>  </span>It has not yet 'grown' 'up'.<span>   </span>But this is because God wants us not to grow in the usual way.<span>  </span>He has a different third dimension in mind for us, one that does not follow the rules of linear growth.<span>  </span>Inasmuch as we are attached to identity, we cannot completely receive Holy Identity.<span>   </span>As we eat the <em>matzah</em> , then, let us strive to become like the <em>matzah</em> as much as we can, so that we can be impressed upon by God who engraves upon us.<span> <br /></span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from several sources", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 292, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Blessing & reflection on matzoh | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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 are here to honor<br />the Jewish nation’s deep historic roots and its old important<br />memories.</p><p> <em>Group:</em> We are here to remember the old story of the liberation of<br />the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt – a great struggle for<br />freedom and dignity. We are here because the struggle for human<br />freedom never stops. We are here to remember all people – Jews<br />and non-Jews – who are still struggling for their freedom.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Eszter Hargittai, A Humanist Modern 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": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 387, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Introduction | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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 seder starts with wine and then gives us three more opportunities to refill our cup and drink.  This is a symbol of transcendence and sancification.</em> </p><p><strong>Reader: </strong>Traditionally, the four cups represent God’s four promises to the Israelites. God’s first promise, “I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt” (Exodus 6:6), reminds us of the Jewish commitment to social justice and social welfare.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Blessing: </strong>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. <em><strong></strong></em> </p><p><strong>GROUP</strong><strong>: </strong>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.</p><p><strong>Reader: </strong>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who gave us a heritage that endures through the ages, ever changing and ever meaningful. We thank You for the opportunities for holiness, the obligations of Your commandments, and the happiness of joyful holidays. Together we celebrate the Holiday of Matzah, the time of liberation, by reading our sacred stories, remembering the Exodus from Egypt, and raising our voices in song.</p><p><strong>Blessing:</strong> Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, she-hechiyanu v’key’manu v’higiyanu lazman hazeh.</p><p><strong>GROUP: </strong>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who has kept us alive, raised us up, and brought us to this happy moment.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Wandering is Over", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Kadesh", "slug": "kadesh" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 355, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Kadesh | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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.\" After dinner, the guests will have to hunt for the afikomen.</em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>Reader 1: Ha lachma anya—this is the bread of affliction.</strong> At the seder we begin as slaves. We eat matzah, the bread of affliction, which leaves us hungry and longing for redemption. It reminds us of a time when we couldn’t control what food was available to us, but ate what we could out of necessity. The matzah enables us to taste slavery— to imagine what it means to be denied our right to live free and healthy lives.</p>\n\n<p>But, while we will soon enjoy a large meal and end the seder night as free people, millions of people around the world can not leave the affliction of hunger behind. Let us awaken to their cries and declare:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Kol dichfin yeitei v’yeichol—let all who are hungry, come and eat.</strong> As we sit at our seder and contemplate our people’s transition from slavery to freedom, let us hope for a time when all who are hungry will eat as free people. Let us pray:</p>\n\n<p>Let all people gain autonomy over their sources of sustenance.</p>\n\n<p>Let local farms flourish and local economies strengthen.</p>\n\n<p>Let exploitation of natural resources cease so that the land may nourish its inhabitants.</p>\n\n<p>Let communities bolster themselves against the destruction wrought by flood and drought.</p>\n\n<p>Let our world leaders recognize food as a basic human right and implement policies and programs that put an end to world hunger.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Hashata avdei—this year we are still slaves. Leshanah haba’ah b’nei chorin—next year we will be free people.</strong></p>\n\n<p>This year, hunger and malnutrition are still the greatest risks to good health around the world. Next year, may the bread of affliction be simply a symbol, and may all people enjoy the bread of plenty, the bread of freedom.</p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "http://ajws.org/what_we_do/education/publications/holiday_resources/passover_seder_reading_2009.pdf", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 457, "tags": [ { "tag": "Matzah", "slug": "matzah" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Breaking the matzah - hunger | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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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Reader 1: The Haggadah doesn’t tell the...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>TELLING THE STORY OF PASSOVER: Magid</strong></p><p><strong></strong> <em>Pour the second glass of wine for everyone.</em> </p><p><strong>Reader 1:</strong> The Haggadah doesn’t tell the story of Passover in a linear fashion. We don’t hear of Moses being found by the daughter of Pharaoh – actually, we don’t hear much of Moses at all. Instead, we get an impressionistic collection of songs, images, and stories of both the Exodus from Egypt and from Passover celebrations through the centuries. Some say that minimizing the role of Moses keeps us focused on the miracles God performed for us. Others insist that we keep the focus on the role that every member of the community has in bringing about positive change<strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Reader 2:</strong> Passover is the celebration of Life. The story of the Jewish people is truly a triumph of life. Against the odds of history, the Jewish people have done more than survive – the Jewish people [we] have adapted creatively to each new time, each new place, from the birth of their [our] ancient nation to the present day. Even though death has pursued them [us] relentlessly, time and time again, they [we] have chosen to live.</p><p><strong>Reader 3:</strong> During the many centuries of the Jewish experience, memories of destruction are tempered by the knowledge that the world can also be good. Jews [We] have endured slavery and humiliation. Jews [We] have also enjoyed freedom and power. Darkness has been balanced by light.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Wandering is Over/A Modern, Humanist, Secular Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 309, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Intro to maggid | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/intro-maggid", "og:title": "Intro to maggid | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "4-questions-answers", "title": "4 questions & answers", "author": "Alida Liberman", "author_handle": "dreamwriter411", "author_initials": "AL", "covertext": "FOUR QUESTIONS Traditionally, the youngest person present asks: Why is this night different from all other nights? 1....", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>FOUR QUESTIONS</strong></p>\n\n<p> <em>Traditionally, the youngest person present asks: </em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>Why is this night different from all other nights?</strong></p>\n\n<p>1. On all other nights we eat either bread or matsah. Why, on this night, do we eat only matsah?</p>\n\n<p>2. On all other nights we eat herbs of any kind. Why, on this night, do we eat only bitter herbs?</p>\n\n<p>3. On all other nights, we do not dip our herbs even once. Why, on this night, do we dip them twice?</p>\n\n<p>4. On all other nights, we eat either sitting or leaning. Why, on this night, do we eat while leaning?</p>\n\n<p><strong>A different guest readers each ANSWER:</strong></p>\n\n<p>1. MATZAH:</p>\n\n<p>Matzah is the symbol of our affliction and our freedom.  Legend has it that when Moses and his followers fled Egypt, they moved so quickly that the bread they baked did not have time to rise.  However, scholars have noted that long before the Jews celebrated Passover, farmers of the Middle East celebrated Khag Ha-matsot, the festival of unleavened bread, at this time of year. This was a festival where unleavened bread was made from the new grain harvest that took place at this time of the year. The old fermented dough was thrown out so that last year's grain would not be mixed with this year's. Therefore, the new season began with the eating of unleavened bread--matsah. Later on, the Jewish people incorporated this agricultural festival into the celebration of freedom and renewal we now call Passover.  Let us all eat a piece of matzah.</p>\n\n<p>2. BITTER HERBS</p>\n\n<p>Tradition says that this root is to remind us of the time of our slavery. We force ourselves to taste pain so that we may more readily value pleasure. Scholars inform us that bitter herbs were eaten at the Spring festival in ancient times. The sharpness of the taste awakened the senses and made the people feel at one with nature's revival. Thus, the horseradish is the stimulus of life, reminding us that struggle is better than the complacent acceptance of injustice.  Let us all eat bitter herbs.</p>\n\n<p>3. DIPPING</p>\n\n<p>The first time, the salty taste reminds us of the tears we cried when we were slaves. The second time, the salt water and<br />\nthe green help us to remember the ocean and green plants and the Earth, from which we get air and water and food that enable us to live.  Let us all dip the parsley in salt water twice.</p>\n\n<p>4. RECLINING</p>\n\n<p>This question goes back to ancient times in Rome, when it was the custom for rich people to eat while lying on a couch leaning on one elbow as slaves and servants fed them. The Jewish people thought of this relaxed type of eating as a sign of freedom and prosperity, so they would lean to one side eating at the Seder on Passover, the festival of freedom. Today, we who are free eat while sitting up, even at Passover, but the question remains in the service as a reminder of how it was when our people longed for freedom.</p>\n\n<p>MORE QUESTIONS:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Reader: </strong>We have answered the four traditional questions, but there are still more questions to be answered. There are other special foods on our Seder plate: a sweet condiment (kharoset), a roasted shank bone (z'ro-ah), and a roasted egg (baytsa). Why are they here?</p>\n\n<p> <em><strong>A different guest reads each answer: </strong></em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>Charoset:</strong> Apples, nuts, cinnamon, and wine are combined to make this sweet condiment. It is the color of clay or mortar. It reminds us of the bricks and mortar that the Israelites are said to have made when they built the Pharaohs' palaces and cities. At the same time, the taste of kharoset is sweet, and it reminds us of the sweetness<br />\nof freedom.  Let us now all eat kharoset on a piece of matsah.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Shank bone</strong>: The bone represents the lamb that was the special Paschal sacrifice on the eve of the <span>exodus</span> from Egypt, and annually, on the afternoon before <span>Passover</span>, in the Holy Temple. </p>\n\n<p><strong>Egg:</strong> The egg represents life.  Each of us begins as an egg and grows to adulthood. The egg reminds us of our evolutionary past and the gifts of human inheritance. But the egg is fragile. It represents potential that can be destroyed. Left alone, it would perish. Growing life needs warmth and love and security, guidance, hope, and vision. To achieve their full potential, human beings need the support and encouragement of family and community.  The egg symbolizes the fragility and interdependence of life.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Humanist Modern Version of Haggadah, Eszter Hargittai", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 1320, "tags": [ { "tag": "Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "4 questions & answers | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/4-questions-answers", "og:title": "4 questions & answers | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "progressive-liberation-exodus", "title": "Progressive, liberation exodus", "author": "Alida Liberman", "author_handle": "dreamwriter411", "author_initials": "AL", "covertext": "Reader 1: It is written that long ago, during a time of famine, the ancient Israelites traveled to Egypt. According to t...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>Reader 1:</strong> It is written that long ago, during a time of famine, the ancient Israelites traveled to Egypt. According to this legend, the Israelites at that time were all in a single family – Jacob and his children. One of Jacob's sons was Joseph, whose wisdom caused the Pharaoh – the ruler of Egypt – to make him a leader over all the people of Egypt.</p><p><strong>Reader 2</strong>: But as time passed, another Pharaoh became the ruler of Egypt. He did not remember about Joseph and his wise leadership. This new Pharaoh turned the Israelites into slaves, and burdened them with heavy work and sorrow.</p><p><strong>Reader 3:</strong> After the Israelites were in Egypt for over 400 years, a man arose among them. He demanded that Pharaoh let his people go! Many times he risked his life to insist on the freedom of his people, until he finally succeeded.</p><p><strong>Reader 4:</strong> At our Passover Seder, we celebrate the story of Moses and the people he led out of slavery 3000 years ago. We celebrate the struggle of all people to be free. Throughout the centuries, the story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt has inspired Jews and non-Jews in time of persecution and hardship.<br /><br /><strong>Group</strong>: Let us remember that the thirst for freedom exists in all people. Many centuries after the time of Moses, African people were brought to America as slaves. These slaves longed for freedom, and they were inspired by the story of Moses and the ancient Israelites.  Millions of people around the world are still slaves today, and long for freedom.</p><p><strong>Reader 5: </strong>The freedom we celebrate tonight is not only freedom from slavery. It is also the freedom to live in peace, with dignity and with hope for a bright future. This constant vision has inspired the Jewish people since the ancient times recorded in the Bible.</p><p><strong>Reader 6:</strong> This evening, as we celebrate our own freedom let us take notice of the struggles toward freedom in many other parts of the world.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from A Humanist, Modern Haggadah by Eszter Hargittai", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 303, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Progressive, liberation exodus | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/progressive-liberation-exodus", "og:title": "Progressive, liberation exodus | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "ten-ancient-and-modern-plagues", "title": "Ten ancient and modern plagues", "author": "Alida Liberman", "author_handle": "dreamwriter411", "author_initials": "AL", "covertext": "Let us all fill our cups with wine... Reader 1: Tonight we drink four cups of the fruit of the vine. There are many expl...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p> <em>Let us all fill our cups with wine...</em> </p><p><strong>Reader 1: </strong>Tonight we drink four cups of the fruit of the vine. There are many explanations for this custom. They represent, some have said, the four terms God to describe the redemption in Exodus: \"I shall <em>take</em> you out...\", \"I shall <em>rescue</em> you...\",  \"I shall <em>redeem</em> you...\", \"I shall <em>bring</em> you...\"  The four cups might also reprsent the four corners of the earth, for freedom must live everywhere; the four seasons of the year, for freedom's cycle must last through all the seasons.</p><p><strong>Reader 2</strong>: A full cup of wine symbolizes complete happiness. The triumph of Passover is diminished by the sacrifice of many human lives when ten plagues were visited upon the people of Egypt. In the ancient story, the plagues that befell the Egyptians resulted from the decisions of tyrants, but the greatest suffering occurred among those who had no choice but to follow. It is fitting that we mourn their loss of life, and express our sorrow over their suffering.  Therefore, let us diminish the wine in our cups as we recall the ten plagues that befell the Egyptian people.</p><p>[As each plague is named, everyone dips a finger in wine and then touches a plate to remove the drop.]<br /><br />Blood, Frogs, Gnats, Flies, Cattle Disease, Boils, Hail, Locusts,Darkness, Death of the<br />Firstborn.</p><p><strong>Reader 3:</strong> In the same spirit, our celebration today is also shadowed by our awareness of continuing sorrow and oppression in all parts of the world. Ancient plagues are mirrored in modern<br />tragedies.</p><p><strong>Reader 4:</strong> We are a world people, living in many lands and among many nations. The power of science has shrunk our planet and has made all of us the children of one human family. We are all victims together of enormous social problems. We share in their effects and in the responsibility to overcome them.</p><p><strong>Reader </strong>5: We spill wine from our cups at the mention of each of these contemporary plagues. We cannot allow ourselves to drink a full measure since our own lives are sobered by these ills, which darken our lives and diminish our joy. As the pain of others diminishes our joys, let us once more diminish the wine of our festival as we repeat the names of these modern plagues:<br /><br /><strong>Group:</strong><br />Hunger, War, Crime,<br />Disease, Racism, Abuse,<br />Poverty, Homophobia, Pollution,<br />Apathy and indifference to human suffering.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from A Humanist Modern Haggadah by Eszter Hargittai", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": 314, "tags": [ { "tag": "Plagues", "slug": "plagues" }, { "tag": "Modern Plagues", "slug": "modern-plagues" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Ten ancient and modern plagues | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "maggid-closingdaiyenu", "title": "Maggid Closing/Daiyenu", "author": "Alida Liberman", "author_handle": "dreamwriter411", "author_initials": "AL", "covertext": "Second cup of wine: Reader: The second cup of wine is dedicated not only to the struggles of the Jewish people, but to a...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>Second cup of wine: </strong></p><p><strong>Reader:</strong> The second cup of wine is dedicated not only to the struggles of the Jewish people, but to all people seeking a secure life free of fear and persecution. In particular, may the Israelis and the Palestinians come to enjoy freedom and peace. For, as the prophet Isaiah said:</p><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><p><strong>Blessing: </strong>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.<br /> <em>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.</em> </p><p><strong>DAIYENU:</strong> It would have been enough:</p><p> <em>Each guests reads one verse, or guests may read/sing together:</em> </p><div><p>Had You taken us out of slavery, but not torn the Sea apart for us, it would have been enough for us!</p><p>Had You brought us through it dry, but not sunk our oppressors in its midst, it would have been enough for us!</p><p>Had You sunk our oppressors in its midst, but not freely fed us manna, it would have been enough for us!</p><p>Had You freely fed us manna, but not rested us with Shabbat, it would have been enough for us!</p><p>Had You rested us with Shabbat, but not given us the Teaching, it would have been enough for us!</p><p><strong>Reader: </strong>What does this mean, \"It would have been enough\"? Surely no one of these alone would indeed have been enough for us.  It means to celebrate each step toward freedom as if it were enough, then to start out on the next step. It means that if we reject each step because it is not the whole liberation, we will never be able to achieve the whole liberation. It means to sing each verse as if it were the whole song and then sing the next verse!</p><p><strong>Group: </strong>How many and how hard are the tasks the Redeemer has set before us!</p><p> <em>Each guests reads one verse: </em> </p><p>If we were to free the peoples of the world, but not to beat the swords of every nation into plowshares, it would not be enough for us.</p><p>If we were to beat the swords of every nation into plowshares, but not to share our food and end all hunger, it would not be enough for us.</p><p>If we were to share our food and end all hunger, but not to cleanse our earth and air of poison, it would not be enough for us.</p><p>If we were to cleanse our earth and air of poison, but not to turn to wind and sun for energy, it would not be enough for us.</p><p>If we were to turn to wind and sun for energy, but not to set aside some time for love and laughter, it would not be enough for us</p><p><strong>Group: </strong>Then how great, doubled and redoubled, are the claims the Redeemer makes upon our effort! You call us to struggle, work, share, give, think, plan, organize, sit-in, speak out, dream, hope, and pray for the great Redemption.!</p></div>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "SEDER FOR THE EARTH: Facing the Plagues & Pharaohs of Our Generation, Shalom Center ", "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": 281, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Maggid Closing/Daiyenu | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "blessing-third-cup-wine", "title": "Blessing for the third cup of wine", "author": "Alida Liberman", "author_handle": "dreamwriter411", "author_initials": "AL", "covertext": "The Third Cup(Pour the third cup of wine)Reader 1: The swords have not yet been put aside, and the time of the plowshare...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>The Third Cup</strong></p><p>(Pour the third cup of wine)<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Reader 1</strong>: The swords have not yet been put aside, and the time of the plowshare and the pruning hooks is still to come. But the journey has begun. Towards that redemption, let us lift once again our glasses of wine and<br />join in the blessing:</p><p> <em>Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam boreh p’ri ha-gafen.</em> <br />We praise You, O God, Sovereign of the Universe, Who brings forth the fruit of the vine.</p><p>(Leaning to the left, all drink the third cup of wine.)</p><p><strong>Reader 1</strong>: That's the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Reader 2:</strong><br />It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because, in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusio, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a<br />wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.</p><p><strong>Group:</strong> In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.<br />- Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Social Justice Haggadah", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 402, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Blessing for the third cup of wine | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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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Reader 1 picks...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>The Fourth Cup of Wine</strong> <em></em> </p><p> <em>The Cup of Elijah, The Cup of Hope</em> </p><p><strong>Reader 1</strong>: Let us all fill our wine glasses. <em>Reader 1 picks up Elijah's cup for all to see.</em> </p><p>This is the cup of Elijah. According to Jewish tradition, the Prophet Elijah was a brave man who denounced the slavery of his day. Legend teaches that he will return one day to lead everyone to peace and freedom. It was customary during the Passover Seder to open the door of the house for Elijah, in the hope that the age of universal peace may soon be at hand.</p><p><strong>Group:</strong> We, too, open the door to peace, knowing that Elijah's task is really our own. Only when we have made a world where nation shall not lift up sword against nation, where justice is universal, and where each person is free, will the age-old dream of peace be real. Let us bring peace and justice to the world!<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Reader 1:</strong> Let us now open the door.</p><p><strong>MIRIAM'S CUP:</strong></p><p> <em>Although Miriam, a prophet and the sister of Moses, is never mentioned in the traditional Haggadah text, she is one of the central figures in the Exodus story.</em> </p><p> <em>According to Jewish feminist writer Tamara Cohen, the practice of filling a goblet with water to symbolize Miriam’s inclusion in the seder originated at a Rosh Chodesh group in Boston in 1989. The idea resonated with many people and quickly spread.<strong></strong></em> </p><p><strong>Reader 2</strong>: The story has been told of a miraculous well of living water which had accompanied the Jewish people since the world was spoken into being. The well comes and goes, as it is needed, and as we remember, forget, and remember again how to call it to us. In the time of the exodus from Mitzrayim, the well came to Miriam, in honor of her courage and action, and stayed with the Jews as they wandered the desert. Upon Miriam’s death, the well again disappeared.</p><p><strong>Reade</strong>r <strong>3:</strong> It is the women of our story who make its unfolding possible. Shifrah and Puah, the midwives who disobey Pharaoh's order to kill all newborn boys; Yocheved and Miriam, the mother and sister of Moses; Pharaoh's daughter who rescues Moses from the Nile. Pharaoh pays little mind to the women, yet it is their daring actions that began it all. It is because of them that we are here tonight; it is because of them that we are able to thank God for our freedom, just as Miriam led us in song to God after we crossed through the parted waters.</p><p><strong>Group</strong>: With this ritual of Miriam’s cup of water, we honor all Jewish women. We commit ourselves to transforming all of our cultures into loving, welcoming spaces for people of all genders.</p><p> <em>We will end our seder with a fourth cup of wine, which we bless now: </em> </p><p> <em></em> <strong>Blessing: </strong>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.<br />We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "From a variety of sources (Social Justice Haggadah, The Wandering is Over, Modernist Humanist Haggadah)", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 345, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Elijah's cup and Miriam's cup | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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 remember not out of curiosity or nostalgia, but because it is our turn to add to the story.</p><p><strong>Group</strong><br />Our challenge this year, as every year, is to feel the exodus, to open the gates of time and to become one with those who crossed the Red Sea from slavery to freedom.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Reader</strong><br />Our challenge this year, as every year, is to know the Exodus, to behold all those in every land who have not yet made the crossing.</p><p><strong>Group</strong><br />Our challenge this day, as every day, is to reach out our hands to them and help them cross to freedomland.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Reader</strong><br />We know some things that others do not always know - how arduous is the struggle, how very deep the waters to be crossed and how treacherous their tides, how filled with irony and contradiction and suffering are the crossing and then the wandering.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Group</strong><br />We know such things because we ourselves wandered in the desert for forty years. Have not those forty years been followed by thirty two centuries of struggle and of quest? Heirs to those who struggle and quested, we are old timers at disappointment, veterans at sorrow, but always, always, prisoners of hope.<br /><br /><strong>Reader</strong><br />The hope is the anthem of our people (Hatikvah), and the way of our people. For all the reversals and all the stumbling blocks, for all the blood and all the hurt, hope still dances within us. That is who we are, and that is what this Seder is about.</p><p><strong>Group</strong><br />For slaves do become free, and the tyrants are destroyed. Once it was by miracles; today it is by defiance and devotion.<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Reader</strong><br />In the words of the great black abolitionist, Harriet Tubman: \"I have heard their cries, and I have seen their tears, and I would do anything in my power to set them free.\"<br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Group</strong><br />Let us make this Passover not only the season of our freedom, but also a time of freedom for everyone.</p><p><strong></strong> <em>Together, we say: </em> </p><p> <em></em> Next Year in Jerusalem!!<br /><strong>Lishana Ha-baah Bi-yerushalyim</strong></p><p>Next year, may we all dwell in peace!</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Social Justice Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Nirtzah", "slug": "nirtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 314, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Closing | Passover haggadah by Alida Liberman", "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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