{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "break-middle-matzoh", "title": "Break the Middle Matzoh", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "We read in the Torah: “It is commanded that you should eat unleavened bread and for seven days there shall be no leavene...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p>\n</p><p>We read in the Torah: “It is commanded that you should eat unleavened bread and for seven days there shall be no leavened bread seen with you. And you shall tell your children in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of that which God did for me when I came forth out of Egypt for with a strong hand has God brought you out of Egypt.’ You shall keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.”</p>\n<p>There is a tradition of searching for additional meaning in the text of the Torah. Since the Hebrew scrolls were written without vowels, Rabbis have read the commandment, “You shall observe the feast of Matzoh” and realized that by changing some of the letters, the word “matzoh” becomes “mitzvoh.” A mitzvoh is a commandment. But the word also means a good deed and we are meant to link our rituals with doing good in the world.</p>\n<p>On Sabbaths and holidays, we traditionally have two loaves of bread, a symbol of the double portion of “manna from heaven.” On Passover, we have three matzot on the table; the third matzoh is the “bread of affliction” reminding us of our enslavement in Egypt. We now take the middle of the three matzot and break it in two. By breaking “bread” we signify hospitality and invite all who are hungry to join us. The smaller piece of matzoh is replaced between the other two matzot. The larger piece is wrapped in a napkin — symbolic of our ancestors wrapping their dough in their garments when they departed Egypt — and set aside as the “afikomen” to be eaten after the meal. Together we say the words which join us with our people and with all who are in need.</p>\n<p>All recite these words:</p>\n<p>Behold the Matzoh, bread of poverty and affliction which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt.</p>\n<p>Let all who are hungry come and eat. 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Wine is a symbol of joy and happiness and we thank God that we are able to gather together again with friends and family to observe this Festival just as our ancestors have done for centuries.</p>\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p'ri ha-gafen.</p>\n<p>Praised be thou, O Lord Our God, King of the Universe, who has created the fruit of the vine!</p>\n<p>You have called us for service from among the peoples and have hallowed our lives with commandments. 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In this festive season, we are meant to feel a connection with the food we eat from the land and to remember that we are surrounded by blessings and miracles no less majestic than those our ancestors witnessed thousands of years ago. Spring reminds us that we are again given a chance for renewal; a new chance to cre- ate peace and goodness in our world. We dip karpas — greens — to symbolize this renewal. The salt water symbolizes the bitter tears shed by our ancestors in slavery.</p>\n<p>Each person takes greens, dips them in salt water and recites the following:</p>\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p'ri ha-adamah.</p>\n<p>We praise You, Adonai, Sovereign of Life, Who creates the fruit of the earth.</p>\n<p>Eat the Karpas</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 259, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Rebirth and Renewal | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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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Asking questions is so fundamen- tal that, according to the rabbis, even if one finds oneself alone on Passover, the Four Questions should be asked aloud.</p>\n<p>Traditionally, the youngest child is called upon to ask these four questions about the differences that mark this night. We encourage children to question and all who are present may ask the Four Questions.</p>\n\n<p>Ma nish-ta-na ha-lyla ha-zeh meekol ha-lailot?</p>\n<p>She-be-chol ha-lay-lot anu ochlin chamaytz u-matzo, ha-laila ha-zeh kulo matzo</p>\n<p>She-be-chol ha-lay-lot anu ochlin sh’or y’rokot, ha-laila ha-zeh maror</p>\n<p>She-be-chol ha-lay-lot ayn anu mat-beeleen afeelu pa-am e-chat ha-laila ha-zeh shetay f’amim</p>\n<p>She-be-chol ha-lay-lot anu ochlin bayn yoshvin u-vayn m’subin ha-laila ha-zeh kulanu m’subin</p>\n\n<p><span>Why is this night different from all other nights?</span></p>\n<p><span>On all other nights, we eat either leavened bread or matzoh; why, on this night, do we eat only matzoh?</span></p>\n<p><span>On all other nights, we eat all kinds of herbs; why, on this night, do we especially eat bitter herbs?</span></p>\n<p><span>On all other nights, we do not dip herbs at all; why, on this night, do we dip twice?</span></p>\n<p><span>On all other nights, we eat in an ordinary manner; why, tonight, do we recline and dine with a special ceremony?</span></p>\n\n\n<p>On all other nights, we eat either leavened bread or matzoh; why, on this night, do we eat only matzoh?</p>\n<p>On all other nights, we eat all kinds of herbs; why, on this night, do we especially eat bitter herbs?</p>\n<p>On all other nights, we do not dip herbs at all; why, on this night, do we dip twice?</p>\n<p>On all other nights, we eat in an ordinary manner; why, tonight, do we recline and dine with a special ceremo</p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 223, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Four Questions | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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/four-questions-0", "og:title": "The Four Questions | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "four-answers-0", "title": "Four Answers", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "Later, we will read and explore the whole story of the Exodus from Egypt, but first we give a simple answer to each of t...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>Later, we will read and explore the whole story of the Exodus from Egypt, but first we give a simple answer to each of these four questions.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>We eat matzoh because when our ancestors were told by Pharaoh that they could leave Egypt, they had no time to allow their bread to rise, so they baked hurriedly, without leavening.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>At the Seder, we eat bitter herbs to remind us of the bitterness our ances- tors experienced when they were oppressed as slaves.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>At the Seder table, we dip food twice; once in salt water to remind us of the tears shed in slavery and again in haroset, to remind us that there is sweetness even in bitter times.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>In ancient times, slaves ate hurriedly, standing or squatting on the ground. Symbolically, as a sign of freedom, we lean and relax as we partake of wine and symbolic food. The Haggadah tells the story of Rabbi Akiba and other Talmudic scholars sitting at the Seder table in B’nai B’rak all night long discussing the events of the liberation from Egypt. They talked all night until their students came in to announce it was time for the morning prayers. If great scholars can find the theme of freedom so fascinating that it keeps them up all night, our Seder too, will be made more interesting with questions, comments and discussion on this theme.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 272, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Four Answers | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "four-children-2", "title": "The Four Children", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "Four times the Torah commands us to tell our children about the Exodus from Egypt and because of this, traditional Hagga...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>Four times the Torah commands us to tell our children about the Exodus from Egypt and because of this, traditional Haggadot speak of four kinds of sons. The Hebrew word for “children” is the same word as “sons” and either can be used. Our sages teach that perhaps there is really a part of each of the four children in us all.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>The wise child questions, “What is the meaning of the laws and observanc- es which the Lord, our God, has commanded you?” In response to this child we explain the observances of the Passover in-depth.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>The scornful child questions, “What does this service mean to you?” This child says “to you” and does not feel a part of our observances. By excluding God — and himself, this child would not have been redeemed had he or she been in Egypt. We ask this child to listen closely and become part of our tra- ditions and learn what the Seder means.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>The simple child questions, “What is this ceremony about?” We say, “We are remembering a time long ago when we were forced to work as slaves. God made us a free people and we are celebrating our freedom.” We hope by observing the Seder year after year, this child will come to appreciate the mes- sage of the Passover holiday.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>The innocent child doesn't think to question. To this child we say, “In the spring of every year we remember how we were brought out of slavery to freedom.”</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>Some rabbis remind us that there is also a fifth child... the one who is not at this table. This is the person who should be with us, but is not... and we mark his absence.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Children", "slug": "four-children" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 335, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Four Children | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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 is an acknowledgement that there is always a chance for forgiveness, redemption and change. Our traditions teach that Passover is open to all. Everyone is welcome at this table. There is always room. Because no one is ever turned away, there is always an opportunity for a rebirth of spirit.</p>\n<p>As a sign of hospitality to all, we open the door to our homes and symbolically invite anyone who wants to join us to come inside.</p>\n<p>At this point, the children open the door.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Our Favorites For Families", "slug": "our-favorites-families", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": 399, "tags": [ { "tag": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" }, { "tag": "Family", "slug": "family" } ], "themes": [ { "theme": "Families", "slug": "families" } ], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Welcoming Others | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "we-were-slaves", "title": "We Were Slaves", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "The Haggadah sets forth the theme that we — not just our ancestors — were slaves to Pharaoh but God delivered each of us...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>The Haggadah sets forth the theme that we — not just our ancestors — were slaves to Pharaoh but God delivered each of us “with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.” We tell the story of the Exodus and search its meaning to better understand and appreciate its message.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>We have an obligation to retell and expand upon the story of our Exodus from Egypt in order to remind ourselves that the struggle for freedom is a constant one. Over the years, Rabbis reasoned that since the Torah com- mands us to retell the story, this must be done creatively, in a way that is compelling to the next generation. The Torah directs us to say, “My father was a wandering Aramean,” but traditional Haggadot translate the verse as “The Aramean wanted to destroy my father.” This was done as a warning to be on guard against two types of enemies who would take away our freedom — the enemy without and the enemy within, posing as a friend and betraying us.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>We are also asked to be mindful of two kinds of slavery: physical bondage and spiritual bondage. We must strive to be free in body, but also free in spirit, careful not to destroy ourselves and our people by turning from God and the faith of our ancestors. Throughout the ages, our people have been oppressed and attacked by outside forces, but there is an equal risk of destroying ourselves by abandoning our traditions and repudiating who we are.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>All raise their cups of wine, but do not drink:</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p> <em><span>In every generation enemies rise up against us, seeking to destroy us, and in every generation God delivers us from their hands into freedom.</span></em> </p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>All replace their cups untasted.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 209, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "We Were Slaves | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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/we-were-slaves", "og:title": "We Were Slaves | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "story", "title": "The Story", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "The Torah says we are to speak these words before God and say, “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down into Egy...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>The Torah says we are to speak these words before God and say, “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down into Egypt and sojourned there. With few in number, he became there a great and populous nation. The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and afflicted us and imposed hard labor upon us. And we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers and God heard our cry and saw our affliction and our oppression. He brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great signs and wonders.”</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>We will now recount the Passover story. As we read, we will go around the table with each person taking a turn to read a paragraph out loud:</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>Our patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah went to the land of Canaan, where he became the founder of “a great nation.” God tells Abraham, “Know this for certain, that your descendants will be strangers in a strange land, and be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. But know that in the end I shall bring judgment on the oppressors.”</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>Abraham’s grandson, Jacob and his family went down to Egypt during a time of famine throughout the land. In Egypt, Jacob and the Israelites lived and prospered until a new Pharaoh arose who said, “Behold the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Let us then deal shrewdly with them, lest they become more powerful, and in the event of war, join our enemies in fighting against us and gain control over the region.”</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>The Egyptians set taskmasters over the Israelites with forced labor and made them build cities for Pharaoh. The Egyptians embittered the lives of the Israelites with harsh labor but the more they were oppressed, the more they increased and the Egyptians came to despise them. Pharaoh ordered, “Every Hebrew boy that is born shall be thrown in the Nile River and drowned.”</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>God remembered the covenant that he made with Abraham and Sarah and called to Moses, telling him to appear before Pharaoh and demand that the Hebrew people be released from bondage. But Pharaoh refused to free the Israelites. Nine times Moses and his brother Aaron went to Pharaoh, and each time that Pharaoh refused Moses’ request, God sent a plague to Egypt.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>After the ninth plague, Moses summoned the elders of Israel and told them to have their families mark their door posts and lintels with the blood of a lamb saying, “none of you shall go out of his house until the morning for God will pass through to smite the first born of the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, God will pass over your doors.”</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>It is written in the Torah that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh during Moses’ pleas. Finally when God brought down the tenth plague upon them — the death of the first-born of all the Egyptians — a great cry went up throughout Egypt, and Pharaoh allowed Moses to take his people out of the land and deliver them to a new land.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>It is written: “And it shall come to pass, when you come to the land which God will give you, according as He has promised, that you shall keep this service to commemorate the Exodus. And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, “What mean you by this service?” you shall say, it is the sacrifice of God's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt.”</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 244, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Story | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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/story", "og:title": "The Story | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "plagues-egypt", "title": "The Plagues of Egypt", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "As Moses and the Israelites were fleeing Egypt, Pharaoh’s armies pursued them as they were encamped by the sea. Moses he...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p>\n</p><p><span>As Moses and the Israelites were fleeing Egypt, Pharaoh’s armies pursued them as they were encamped by the sea. Moses held out his hand over the sea and the Lord drove back the sea, allowing the Israelites to pass, but drowned the Egyptians.</span></p>\n<p><span>There is a Midrash that tells of God rebuking His angels for rejoicing as the Egyptians were drowning, saying, “Are these not my children also?”</span></p>\n<p><span>We now pour ten drops of wine to symbolize the ten plagues upon Egypt. A full cup of wine is the symbol of complete joy. Though we celebrate our freedom, our cup cannot be filled because our freedom did not come without a cost. Each drop of wine that we pour out of our cups diminishes our joy.</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 195, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Plagues of Egypt | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "ten-plagues-1", "title": "Ten Plagues", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "With your finger or spoon, lessen your cup of wine with each of the plagues mentioned, but do not drink Blood as we read...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>With your finger or spoon, lessen your cup of wine with each of the plagues mentioned, but do not drink</span></p>\n<p><span>Blood as we read “All the waters that were in the river were turned to blood”</span></p>\n<p><span>Frogs as we read “And the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt”</span></p>\n<p><span>Lice as we read “All the dust of the land became lice throughout all of Egypt”</span></p>\n<p><span>Swarms as we read “There came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt.”</span></p>\n<p><span>Pestilence as we read “All the cattle of Egypt died.”</span></p>\n<p><span>Boils as we read “And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.”</span></p>\n<p><span>Hail as we read “And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and God sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and God rained hail upon the land of Egypt.”</span></p>\n<p><span>Locusts as we read “And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and God brought an East wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the East wind brought the locusts.”</span></p>\n<p><span>Darnkness as we read “And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.”</span></p>\n<p><span>The death of the Egyptian first-born as we read “And it came to pass, that at midnight God smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.</span></p>\n<p><span>It is interesting to note that the last thing God does against Pharaoh is the first thing that Pharaoh did to the Israelites, a lesson that we should not be vengeful and always have measured justice. “An eye for an eye” does not mean we should seek equal retribution, but that when pursuing justice, we must be fair and equitable. Even as we recount the Passover story, the Torah instructs us to “not abhor the Egyptian.”</span></p>\n<p><span>At this time, we are reminded to be aware of the plagues that afflict us in the world about us — and in the relationships we share with others. God sent ten plagues but he also gave us ten commandments to live by. If we abide by these commandments, we can remove many of the plagues from our lives and from our hearts.</span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 237, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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/ten-plagues-1", "og:title": "Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "dayenu-it-would-have-been-enough", "title": "Dayenu- it would have been enough", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "A Medieval addition to the Haggadah, this hymn originally contained fifteen verses mirroring the fifteen steps in the Se...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>A Medieval addition to the Haggadah, this hymn originally contained fifteen verses mirroring the fifteen steps in the Seder.</span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n<p><span>How many are the gifts God bestowed upon us! Had God:</span></p>\n<p><span>Brought us out of Egypt and not divided the sea for us</span></p>\n<p><span>Divided the sea and not permitted us to cross on dry land,</span></p>\n<p><span>Permitted us to cross on dry land and not sustained us for forty years in the desert,</span></p>\n<p><span>Sustained us for forty years in the desert and not fed us with manna</span></p>\n<p><span>Fed us with manna and not given us the Sabbath</span></p>\n<p><span>Given us the Sabbath and not brought us to Mount Sinai</span></p>\n<p><span>Brought us to Mount Sinai and not given us the Torah</span></p>\n<p><span>Dayenu Dayenu</span></p>\n<p><span>Dayenu Dayenu Dayenu Dayenu Dayenu</span></p>\n<p><span>Day, dayenu, day, dayenu, day, dayenu, dayenu, dayenu...</span></p>\n<p><span>Ilu hotsi hotsianu, hotsianu mi-Mitzrayim, hotisanu mi-Mitzrayim, Dayenu Ilu natan natan lanu, natan lanu et ha-Shabbat, natan lanu et ha-Shabbat, Dayenu. Ilu natan natan lanu, natan lanu et ha-Torah, natan lanu et ha-Torah, Dayenu.</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 254, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dayenu- it would have been enough | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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/dayenu-it-would-have-been-enough", "og:title": "Dayenu- it would have been enough | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "pesach-matzoh-marror", "title": "Pesach, Matzoh, Marror", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "Pesach, matzoh, and maror have symbolic meaning for us. They are so important and so meaningful that no Seder is really...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p>Pesach, matzoh, and maror have symbolic meaning for us. They are so important and so meaningful that no Seder is really complete unless they are fully explained.</p>\n\n<p>WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS PESACH?</p>\n<p>This roasted shank bone is the symbol of the Pesach lamb. Each year at Passover, the Israelites would gather at the Temple to commemorate the Exodus from slavery. Each family would bring a lamb as an offering, to remember the time when our ancestors were spared the fate of the Egyptians. The Pesach was a reminder that God passed over the houses of our ancestors in Egypt. Originally, one of the four questions asked at the Seder was not, “Why do we recline?” but “Why do we eat only roasted meat?” After the Temple was destroyed, sacrifices were abandoned and so was the question about eating only roasted meat at the Seder.</p>\n\n<p>WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS MATZOH?</p>\n<p>Matzoh is a symbol of the simple bread of poverty. The matzoh reminds us of the great haste in which the Israelites fled from Egypt. As we read in the Torah: “They baked unleavened cakes of the dough since they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay.”</p>\n\n<p>In ancient times, the Israelites ate simple foods. For one week each year the matzoh becomes the symbol of those days when people had little, reminding us that our lives are about much more than the material things we have or own.</p>\n<p>We are commanded to eat matzoh on the first night of Passover and to rid ourselves of chometz — all bread and leavened food products made from fermented wheat, barley, rye, oats and spelt — for the entire holiday. Though we are prohibited from eating these fermented grains during Passover, we are also commanded to eat Matzoh — flour and water baked so quickly that it does not ferment or rise — at the Seder.</p>\n\n<p>The flat, unleavened matzoh represents humility. Matzoh is not “enriched” with oil, sugar, honey or other things. Only by acknowledging our own shortcomings and looking to a higher wisdom, can we free ourselves from the arrogance and self-centeredness within our own hearts.</p>\n\n<p>WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS MAROR?</p>\n<p>We eat the maror, or bitter herbs, to remind ourselves that the Egyptians embittered the lives of our people. As we read: “And they made their lives bit- ter with hard labor at mortar and brick and in all sorts of drudgery in the field; and they ruthlessly imposed all the tasks upon them.”</p>\n\n<p>Even today, oppression remains in the world, and we are meant to taste its bitterness recalling these words : “You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in Egypt. When strangers reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them...You shall love them as yourself, for you were strangers in Egypt. You shall rejoice before God with your son and daughter...and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow in your midst. Always remember that you were slaves in Egypt.”</p>\n\n<p>As we eat the bitter herbs, we are reminded to remove any bitterness from our own lives, for bitterness will kill even sooner than death. If we become used to bitterness in our lives, it is very hard to ever leave it behind.</p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 388, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Pesach, Matzoh, Marror | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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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Let us glorify God who performe...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p>\n</p><p>We raise our cups as we recall the second promise of liberation to the people of Israel. Let us glorify God who performed these miracles for our ancestors and for us. Let us rejoice at the wonder of our deliverance from bondage to freedom, from servitude to redemption. Hallelujah. We praise God who has delivered us and our ancestors from Egypt and brought us here this night to eat matzoh and maror. Our God and God of our ancestors, help us celebrate future holidays and festivals in peace and in joy.</p>\n\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p'ri ha-gafen.</p>\n<p>Praised be thou, O Lord Our God, King of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine!</p>\n<p>All drink the entire second cup of wine</p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "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": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 483, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Cup of Deliverance- Second Cup of Wine | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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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As we ordinarily begin with the breaking of bread, we begin tonight with the breaki...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "\n<p>We are now coming to the Seder meal. As we ordinarily begin with the breaking of bread, we begin tonight with the breaking of matzoh. We recite two blessings; first the regular blessing for bread, then a special one for mat- zoh.</p>\n<p>The upper and middle piece of the three matzot are broken and distributed among the group as we recite togetherBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, ha-motzi lechem min ha-aretz.</p>\n<p>We praise You, God, who brings forth bread from the earth.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 272, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Motzi- A Blessing for Bread | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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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Each of us will take a bit of the maror, the bitter herb, and dip it into the har...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>We now dip our food for a second time. Each of us will take a bit of the maror, the bitter herb, and dip it into the haroset — a mixture of chopped apples, nuts, wines and spices. We acknowledge that life is bittersweet. The sweet taste of haroset symbolizes that no matter how bitter and dark the pres- ent appears, we should look forward to better days. As we remember our ancestors, this is a time to be appreciative of everything we have; a time to be grateful for all the gifts we have been given.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>All recite the following together:</span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n<p><span>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kidshanu b'mitzvo-tav, v'tzivanu al a-chilat maror.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>We praise God who hallows our lives with commandments, and enjoins us to eat the bitter herbs.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>Each participant eats the bitter herbs along with the sweet haroset</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maror", "slug": "maror" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 374, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Marror- A Blessing for the Bitter Herb | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "korekh", "title": "Korekh", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "On Passover, Hillel, the head of the Rabbinic academy in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, combined the pesach, matzoh a...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>On Passover, Hillel, the head of the Rabbinic academy in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, combined the pesach, matzoh and maror and ate them together, so he might observe the commandment exactly: “They shall eat the Pesach lamb offering with matzoh and maror together.” The destruction of the Temple by the Romans brought an end to animal sacrifices, so our sand- wich today is made only with matzoh and maror. </span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>We will now eat the bitter herbs sandwiched between two pieces of matzoh.</span></p>\n<p><span>Break two pieces of the bottom matzoh, and use it to make a sandwich with maror.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 343, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Korekh | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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/korekh", "og:title": "Korekh | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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": "boiled-egg", "title": "Boiled Egg", "author": "Barry Louis Polisar", "author_handle": "barry-louis-polisar", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "It is customary to begin the Passover meal with hard-boiled eggs flavored with salt water. The egg is symbolic of new li...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>It is customary to begin the Passover meal with hard-boiled eggs flavored with salt water. The egg is symbolic of new life, and of hope; the salt water, a symbol of tears. Eggs, unlike other foods, harden when they are cooked, symbolic of our faith being tempered and hardened by the forces of our history.</span></p>\n\n<p><span>May we reflect on our lives this year and soften our hearts to those around us. Another year has passed since we gathered at the Seder table and we are once again reminded that life is fleeting. We are reminded to use each precious moment wisely so that no day will pass without bringing us closer to some worthy achievement as we all take a moment to be aware of how truly blessed and fortunate we are.</span></p>\n\n<p><span>     Our faith gives us many holidays to celebrate throughout the year and they are all times for self reflection, gently guiding us to a better path in life. We are each given a chance to reflect on our past year; to think about where we have been and how we will live our lives in the year to come. We reaffirm our com- mitment to lead good and meaningful lives, making peace wherever we go.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "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": 441, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Boiled Egg | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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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Since neither the meal nor the Se...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span> Toward the end of the meal, the children look for the afikoman, which has been hidden. Since neither the meal nor the Seder can be concluded before everyone has eaten a piece of it, whoever finds the afikoman is given a reward. Nothing is eaten after the afikoman, so that the matzoh may be the last food tasted. This custom of hiding the afikoman is not found in early Haggadot and was probably added as a device to keep up the interest of young children who might otherwise become bored with the ceremony.</span></p>\n<p><span>In Temple times the Passover sacrifice was eaten at the end of the meal, when everyone was full. In remembrance of this, we each partake of the afikoman as the very last food to be eaten at our Seder.</span></p>\n<p><span>Eat the afikoman</span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Tzafun", "slug": "tzafun" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 434, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Afikoman is Found and Eaten | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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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Together we say: We have eaten...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/conversions/picture-164-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104209/picture-164.jpeg", "body": "<p><span>Traditionally, a series of prayers and blessings after eating are now recited in Hebrew. Together we say:</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>We have eaten this Passover meal as a free people and we give thanks to God for his many blessings. Preserve us in life, sustain us with good and honorable work and make us worthy. Bless this home, this table, and all assembled here; may all our loved ones share our blessings.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Telling the Story: A Passover Haggadah Explained", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 319, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Blessing After Meal | Passover haggadah by Barry Louis Polisar", "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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