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Welcome family and friends! We're so excited to sit with you around the seder table!  Tonight we will share stories, sing, eat symbolic foods, recall our history and optimistically looks towards the future. And of course all of the children will be totally calm! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of wine, and join us on this journey! With love, Jenny, Evan, Koby, Elie, and Roie

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We sanctify the name of God and proclaim the holiness of this festival of Passover. With a blessing over wine, we lift our wine, our symbol of joy; let us welcome the festival of Passover. In unison, we say… Our God and God of our ancestors, we thank You for enabling us to gather in friendship, to observe the Festival of Freedom. Just as for many centuries the Passover Seder has brought together families and friends to retell the events that...

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The central imperative of the Seder is to tell the story. The Bible instructs: “ You shall tell your child on that day, saying: ‘This is because of what Adonai did for me when I came out of Egypt.' ” (Exodus 13:8) We relate the story of our ancestors to regain the memories as our own. Elie Weisel writes: God created man because He loves stories. We each have a story to tell — a story of enslavement, struggle, liberation. Be...

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Finding and eating the Afikomen | tzafoon | צָפוּן The playfulness of finding the afikomen reminds us that we balance our solemn memories of slavery with a joyous celebration of freedom. As we eat the afikomen, our last taste of matzah for the evening, we are grateful for moments of silliness and happiness in our lives.

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Ilu lu lu, finu nu nu X2 Ilu lu lu, finu nu nu, malei shira kayam x2 Were our mouths as full of song as the sea [we could not praise You enough]

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Water is refreshing, cleansing, and clear, so it’s easy to understand why so many cultures and religions use water for symbolic purification. We will wash our hands twice during our seder: now, with no blessing, to get us ready for the rituals to come; and then again later, we’ll wash again with a blessing, preparing us for the meal, which Judaism thinks of as a ritual in itself. (The Jewish obsession with food is older than you thought!) To wash your...

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As all good term papers do, we start with the main idea: ּעֲבָדִים הָיִינוּ הָיִינו. עַתָּה בְּנֵי חוֹרִין   Avadim hayinu hayinu. Ata b’nei chorin. We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt. Now we are free. We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and God took us from there with a strong hand and outstretched arm. Had God not brought our ancestors out of Egypt, then even today we and our children and our grandchildren would still be slaves. Even if we...

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Long ago at this season, our people set out on a journey. On such a night as this, Israel went from degradation to joy. We give thanks for the liberation of days gone by. And we pray for all who are still bound. God, may all who hunger come to rejoice in a new Passover. Let all the human family sit together, drink the wine of deliverance, and eat the bread of freedom: Freedom from bondage     and freedom from oppression Freedom...

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In recounting our story, let us consider that we tell it to four children, one wise, one simple, one wicked and one innocent. The wise child asks: How can I learn more about our people?  To that child you shall direct our wealth of literature so that they may seek out this knowledge for themself. The simple child asks: What is this all about?  To that child you shall say simply , because we had faith we were redeemed from slavery....

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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,...

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CHORUS: Pharaoh, Pharaoh, whoa baby, let my people go! (2x) A burnin' bush told me just the other day That I should go to Egypt and say, "It's time to let my people be free - Listen to God if you won't listen to me!" CHORUS Well me and and my people goin' to the Red Sea, With Pharaoh's best army comin' after me. I took my staff, stuck it in the stand, And all of God's people walked on dry...

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Dipping the bitter herb in sweet charoset | maror  |מָרוֹר      In creating a holiday about the joy of freedom, we turn the story of our bitter history into a sweet celebration. We recognize this by dipping our bitter herbs into the sweet charoset. We don’t totally eradicate the taste of the bitter with the taste of the sweet… but doesn’t the sweet mean more when it’s layered over the bitterness? בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּֽנוּ עַל...

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On Passover, Jews are commanded to tell the story of the Exodus and to see ourselves as having lived through that story, so that we may better learn how to live our lives today. The stories we tell our children shape what they believe to be possible—which is why at Passover, we must tell the stories of the women who played a crucial role in the Exodus narrative.  The Book of Exodus, much like the Book of Genesis, opens in pervasive...

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Giving Thanks for our Food Hebrew (Aramaic, actaully): בריך רחמנא מלכא דעלמא מריה דהאי פיתא Transliteration: Brich rachamana malka d'alma ma'arey d'hai pita Translation: Blessed is the merciful One, ruler of the world, creator of this bread.

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CHORUS: Pharaoh, Pharaoh, whoa baby, let my people go! (2x) A burnin' bush told me just the other day That I should go to Egypt and say, "It's time to let my people be free - Listen to God if you won't listen to me!" CHORUS Well me and and my people goin' to the Red Sea, With Pharaoh's best army comin' after me. I took my staff, stuck it in the stand, And all of God's people walked on dry...

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Ilu lu lu, finu nu nu X2 Ilu lu lu, finu nu nu, malei shira kayam x2 Were our mouths as full of song as the sea [we could not praise You enough]