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Who Knows One? 1.            One is Hashem, one is Hashem, one is Hashem! In the Heaven and the Earth        אחד אלוהינו שבשמיים ובארץ         2.            Two are the tablets that Moshe brought             שני לוחות הברית               3.            Three are the Fathers    שלושה אבות        4.            Four are the Mothers    ארבע אימהות      5.            Five are the books of the Torah חמישה חומשי תורה          6.            Six are the books of the Mishnah             שישה סידרי משנה             7.            Seven are the days of the week ooh-ah                שיבעה ימי...

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This song was written to be part of Fiddler on the Roof, but was cut from the show before it made its Broadway debut for being too slow, and comic at a moment in the show when the people of Anatevka are experiencing tragedy. It imagines a world in which the Messiah is coming, but lost, and worried about us. Words and music by Sheldon Harnick When Messiah comes he will say to us, “I apologize that I took so long.”...

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The Hebrew word “Kiddush” means sanctification. But it is not the wine we sanctify. Instead, the wine is a symbol of the sanctity, the preciousness, and the sweetness of this moment. Held together by sacred bonds of family, friendship, peoplehood, we share this table tonight with one another and with all the generations who have come before us. Let us rise, and sanctify this singular moment. Baruch ata Adonai, Elohaynoo melech ha-olam, boray pree ha-gafen. Baruch atah Adonai, Elohynoo melech ha-...

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Hallel is a collection of psalms thanking God for redeeming us from Egypt, and asking God to continue to save and help us. At our seder we have talked about injustice and pain in the world, and how we might be redeemed, but we also want to be thankful for the progress we have already seen. Go around the table and ask each person to name one hard thing that happened—in the world, or to them personally, or both—in the past...

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A Cup for Hope— Tonight, we hold fast to the belief that people and ouractions can change the world. We hold close the stories of resistance, fromTehran to Santa Rosa, from Philadelphia to Nablus, people and communities arebuilding and changing and creating as acts of resistance. Please share something that gives you hopenow, to remind us of the promise of theworld we are a part of creating together. All say the Blessing over the Wine: (Ashkenazi pronunciation, masc.) Baruch atah Adonai,...

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Hallel is recited on holidays and on the semi-festival of the new moon (Rosh Hodesh). Many Jews also recite it on the modern festivals of Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) and Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). What are the ideas expressed in Hallel? The Gemara (the Rabbinic debates on the Mishnah) tells us that Hallel includes five major themes (Pesachim 118a):   1. The Exodus from Egypt 2. The splitting of the Red Sea 3. The giving of the Torah 4. The revival...

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As much as we’d like to, perhaps the idea that we are enslaved to objects like our facebook pages and Iphones belittles the inconceivable maltreatment and backbreaking labor to which the Israelites were subjected. Though not as extreme an instance as slavery, perhaps we also cannot relate to poverty and hunger for the same reason. Anonymous, Los Angeles #globalbeitmidrash #globalteenagershaggadah

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We will now wash our hands with the blessing בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ עַל נְטִילַת יָדַיִם​ Blessed are You, Yah, our G-d, breath of all life, who has sanctified us with your commandments and commanded us to wash our hands ?OK, enough being formal. Seriously. God must REALLY  want us to be healthy. But hey, who's complaining

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One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night,...

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One morning when Pharaoh woke in his bed There were frogs in his bed and frogs on his head Frogs on his nose and frogs on his toes Frogs here. Frogs there. Frogs were jumping everywhere!