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{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "discussion", "title": "Discussion", "author": "caroline", "author_handle": "carmar21comcastnet", "author_initials": "CA", "covertext": "“Mitzrayim,” Hebrew for Egypt, literally means narrow straits. Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more tha...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "“Mitzrayim,” Hebrew for Egypt, literally means narrow straits. Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more than the literal escape from slavery, more than an escape from a place of narrow straights, an obviously accurate physical description of Egypt, but metaphorically the leaving behind or “exodus” from a narrow place – the place that squeezes the life out of the human soul and body. Mitzrayim is viewed as an intrinsically constrictive state; a state where we are unable to express ourselves and be free, to be who we are as we seek to define ourselves to others.\n \nBesides the obvious homophone (words with different meanings and different spellings but the same pronunciation) of strait and straight, which parallels the Israelites liberation and escape from narrow straits, a place of oppression, our GLBT community often seeks escape from narrow-minded straights. We gather here today as the result of GLBT activists that struggled and fought for the rights and privileges we have today and from the support of countless GLBT allies in the straight community. Those allies who have stood by us personally in our lives and those who we will never know that have stood by countless other GLBTs in our community today and historically. These straight allies have escaped narrow mindedness and chose the path of justice and righteousness. \n \nWe spend a lot of time focusing on those outside our community that we feel hold us down and fail to recognize us as equal or worthy of equal rights, but at what point will we focus on what holds us back from within the GLBT community? How can we work from within our community to improve how we view ourselves, our souls and the value of our gender identity and sexual orientation?", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 239, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Discussion | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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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Ever since He called our father Abraham from the bondage of idolatry to His service of truth, He has been our Guardian; for not in one country alone nor in one age have violent men risen up against us, but in every generation and in every land, tyrants have sought to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, has delivered us from their hands. The Torah tells us that when Jacob our father was a homeless wanderer, he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. All the souls of his household were threescore and ten. And Joseph was already in Egypt; he was the governor over the land. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession, as Pharaoh had commanded. And Israel dwelt in the land of Goshen; and they got them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land'. Therefore they set over them taskmasters to afflict them with burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more the Egyptians afflicted them, the more the Israelites multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us cruel bondage. And we cried unto the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression. And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders. He sent before us Moses and Aaron and Miriam. And He brought forth His people with joy, His chosen ones with singing. And He guided them in the wilderness, as a shepherd his flock. Therefore He commanded us to observe the Passover in its season, from year to year, that His law shall be in our mouths, and that we shall declare His might unto our children, His salvation to all generations.\nAll read in unison: Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the mighty? Who is like unto Thee, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "'The Union Haggadah' The Central Council of American Rabbis", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 283, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Story of Oppression | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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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Not our fathers alone, but us also, did the Holy One redeem; for not alone in Egypt but in many other lands, have we groaned under the burden of affliction and suffered as victims of malice, ignorance and fanaticism. This very night which we, a happy generation, celebrate so calmly and safely and joyfully in our habitations was often turned into a night of anxiety and of suffering for our people in former times. Cruel mobs were ready to rush upon them and to destroy their homes and the fruit of their labors. But undauntedly they clung to their faith in the ultimate triumph of right and of freedom. Champions of God, they marched from one Egypt into another—driven in haste, their property a prey to the rapacious foe, with their bundles on their shoulders, and God in their hearts. Because God, \"the Guardian of Israel, who sleepeth not nor slumbereth\" revealed Himself on that Watch-night in Egypt and in all dark periods of our past, as the Redeemer of the enslaved, we keep this as a Watch-night for all the Children of Israel, dedicated to God our redeemer. While enjoying the liberty of this land, let us strive to make secure also our spiritual freedom, that, as the delivered, we may become the deliverer, carrying out Israel's historic task of being the messenger of religion unto all mankind. All read in unison: So it is our duty to thank, praise and glorify God, who brought us and our forefathers from slavery unto freedom, from sorrow unto joy, from mourning unto festive gladness, from darkness unto light. Let us therefore proclaim His praise.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Union Haggadah, ed. by The Central Council of American Rabbis, at sacred-texts.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 286, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Watch-Night of the Eternal | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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 should suffer an irretrievable loss, were it allowed to pass into neglect. To avert such a danger, has been the anxious thought to which the Union Haggadah owes its origin. In \"carrying on the chain of piety which links the generations to each other\", it is necessary frankly to face and honestly to meet the needs of our own day. The old Haggadah, while full of poetic charm, contains passages and sentiments wholly out of harmony with the spirit of the present time. Hence the proper editing of the old material demanded much care and attention on the part of the editors of the first edition of the Union Haggadah. Benefiting by their labors, those entrusted with the task of its revision are able to present a work at once modern in spirit and rich in those traditional elements that lend color to the service. The Seder service was never purely devotional. Its intensely spiritual tone mingled with bursts of good humor, its serious observations on Jewish life and destiny with comments in a lighter vein, and its lofty poetry with playful ditties for the entertainment of the children. It assumes the form of an historical drama presented at the festal table, with the father and children as leading actors. The children question and the father answers. He explains the nature of the service, preaches, entertains, and prays. In the course of the evening, a complete philosophy of Jewish history is revealed, dealing with Israel's eventful past, with his deliverance from physical and from spiritual bondage, and with his great future world-mission. In its variety, the Haggadah reflects the moods of the Jewish spirit. Rabbinical homily follows dignified narrative, soulful prayers and Psalms mingle with the Ḥad Gadyo and the madrigal of numbers, Eḥod Mi Yode‘a. The assignment to the child of a prominent part in the Seder service is in consonance with the biblical ordinance: \"And thou shalt tell thy son in that day\" (Ex. XIII: 8). The visible symbols, the living word of instruction, and the ceremonial acts, are sure to stimulate religious feeling. Parent and child are thus brought into a union of warm religious sympathy, which is all the more indissoluble because strengthened by the ties of natural affection. Their souls are fired with the love of liberty, and their hearts are roused to greater loyalty to Israel and to Israel's God of Freedom.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Union Haggadah, ed. by The Central Council of American Rabbis, at sacred-texts.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 267, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Introduction - The Union Haggadah | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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 leader lifts up the roasted shank-bone and answers:\nPesaḥ means the Paschal Lamb, and is symbolized by this shank-bone. It was eaten by our fathers while the Temple was in existence, as a memorial of God's favors, as it is said: \"It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses\". As God in the ancient \"Watch-Night\" passed over and spared the houses of Israel, so did He save us in all kinds of distress, and so may He always shield the afflicted, and for ever remove every trace of bondage from among the children of man. MATZO\nOne of the company asks: What is the meaning of Matzo? The leader lifts up the Matzo and answers: Matzo, called The Bread Of Affliction, was the hasty provision that our fathers made for their journey, as it is said: \"And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt. There was not sufficient time to leaven it, for they were driven out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions.\" The bread which of necessity they baked unleavened, thus became a symbol of divine help. MAROR\nOne of the company asks: And what is the meaning of Maror? The leader lifts up the bitter herbs and answers:\nMaror means Bitter Herb. We eat it in order to recall that the lives of our ancestors were embittered by the Egyptians, as we read: 'And they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and in all manner of field labor. Whatever task was imposed upon them, was executed with the utmost rigor.\" As we eat it in the midst of the festivities of this night, we rejoice in the heroic spirit which trials developed in our people. Instead of becoming embittered by them, they were sustained and strengthened.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Union Haggadah, ed. by The Central Council of American Rabbis, at sacred-texts.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 201, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Passover Symbols | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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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I know Two: Two Tables of the Covenant. One God of the World. Who knows Three? I know Three: Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Four? I know Four: Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Five? I know Five: Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Six? I know Six: Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Seven? I know Seven: Seven Days of the Week; Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Eight? I know Eight: Eight Lights of Ḥanukkah; Seven Days of the Week; Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Nine? I know Nine: Nine Festivals*; Eight Lights of Ḥanukkah; Seven Days of the Week; Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Ten? I know Ten: Ten Commandments; Nine Festivals; Eight Lights of Ḥanukkah; Seven Days of the Week; Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Eleven? I know Eleven: Eleven Stars in Joseph's Dream; Ten Commandments; Nine Festivals; Eight Lights of Ḥanukkah; Seven Days of the Week; Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Twelve? I know Twelve: Twelve Tribes; Eleven Stars; Ten Commandments; Nine Festivals; Eight Lights of Ḥanukkah; Seven Days of the Week; Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World. Who knows Thirteen? I know Thirteen: Thirteen Attributes of God (Exodus XXXIV: 6-7); Twelve Tribes; Eleven Stars; Ten Commandments; Nine Festivals; Eight Lights of Ḥanukkah; Seven Days of the Week; Six Days of Creation; Five Books of Moses; Four Mothers of Israel; Three Patriarchs; Two Tables of the Covenant; One God of the World.\n------------------\n*The nine Jewish festivals are: 1. Pesaḥ (Passover), 2. Shabuoth (Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost) 3. Rosh Hashanah (New Year) 4. Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) 5. Succoth (Feast of Tabernacles) 6. Sh’mini Atzereth (Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly) 7. Simḥath Torah (Rejoicing in the Law), 8. Ḥanukkah (Feast of Dedication or Feast of Lights) 9. Purim (Feast of Lots)", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Union Haggadah, ed. by The Central Council of American Rabbis, at sacred-texts.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 230, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Madrigal of Numbers | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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 in the preceding number so in this one, grown people become children. The company reads in unison (not racing as in \"Who Knows One\" but) with regular rhythm, as to the beat of music; or sings it to one of the following musical settings. An only kid! An only kid, My father bought For two zuzim *. An only kid! An only kid! 2. Then came the cat And ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 3. Then came the dog And bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 4. Then came the stick And beat the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 5. Then came the fire And burned the stick That beat the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 6. Then came the water And quenched the fire That burned the stick That beat the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 7. Then came the ox And drank the water That quenched the fire That burned the stick That beat the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 8. Then came the butcher And killed the ox That drank the water That quenched the fire That burned the stick That beat the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 9. Then came the angel of death And slew the butcher That killed the ox That drank the water That quenched the fire That burned the stick That beat the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! 10. Then came the Holy One, blest be He! And destroyed the angel of death That slew the butcher That killed the ox That drank the water That quenched the fire That burned the stick That beat the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid My father bought For two zuzim. An only kid! An only kid! ----------- *zuzim - pieces of money", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Union Haggadah, ed. by The Central Council of American Rabbis, at sacred-texts.com", "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": 193, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Had Gadyo | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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": "wicked-son-hebrew-text-translation-thoughts", "title": "The Wicked Son - Hebrew Text, Translation, Thoughts", "author": "caroline", "author_handle": "carmar21comcastnet", "author_initials": "CA", "covertext": " רָשָׁע מַה הוּא אוֹמֵר? מָה הָעֲבֹדָה הַזֹּאת לָכֶם? לָכֶם ולֹא לוֹ. וּלְפִי שֶׁהוֹצִיא אֶת־עַצְמוֹ מִן הַכְּלָל, כָּפַ...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": " רָשָׁע מַה הוּא אוֹמֵר? מָה הָעֲבֹדָה הַזֹּאת לָכֶם? לָכֶם ולֹא לוֹ. וּלְפִי שֶׁהוֹצִיא אֶת־עַצְמוֹ מִן הַכְּלָל, כָּפַר בָּעִקָּר. וְאַף אַתָּה הַקְהֵה אֶת־שִׁנָּיו, וֶאֱמָר־לוֹ: בַּעֲבוּר זֶה, עָשָׂה יְיָ לִי, בְּצֵאתִי מִמִּצְרָיִם, לִי וְלֹא־לוֹ. אִלּוּ הָיָה שָׁם, לֹא הָיָה נִגְאָל:\n\nWhat does the wicked one say? \"What is this service to you?\" He separates himself from the responsibility. And because he does so, be honest with him and tell him: \"This is because of what Adonai has done for me, when he took me out of Egypt.\" Emphasize you and not him, because even if he had been there, he would not have been worthy to be redeemed.\n\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\nWe're told that we should say to the wicked child that he would not have deserved to be taken out of Egypt, all because he asked the wrong kind of question. But if we re-read the question he asks, it's hard to see the difference between what he is saying and what the wise son says. Both of them say \"you\" as though to exclude themselves. So why do we get upset with the wicked son and not with the wise son?\n</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Original Haggadah, Translation and Thoughts by Robbie Medwed", "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": 263, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Wicked Son - Hebrew Text, Translation, Thoughts | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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": "simple-son-hebrew-text-translation-thoughts", "title": "The Simple Son - Hebrew Text, Translation, Thoughts", "author": "caroline", "author_handle": "carmar21comcastnet", "author_initials": "CA", "covertext": " תָּם מַה הוּא אוֹמֵר? מַה זֹּאת? וְאָמַרְתָּ אֵלָיו: בְּחֹזֶק יָד הוֹצִיאָנוּ יְיָ מִמִּצְרַיִם מִבֵּית עֲבָדִים: What...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": " תָּם מַה הוּא אוֹמֵר? מַה זֹּאת? וְאָמַרְתָּ אֵלָיו: בְּחֹזֶק יָד הוֹצִיאָנוּ יְיָ מִמִּצְרַיִם מִבֵּית עֲבָדִים:\n\nWhat does the simple one say? \"What's this?\" And you should tell him: With a strong hand Adonai took us out of Egypt, from slavery.\n\n\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\nA Question: Is it enough to give a simple answer to a simple child? \n\nA Second Question: The child that does not know how to ask - is he unable to ask\nbecause he does not know or because he has not yet had the chance to ask?\n</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Original Haggadah, Translation and Thoughts by Robbie Medwed", "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": 294, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Simple Son - Hebrew Text, Translation, Thoughts | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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": "pesach-paschal-lamb-hebrew-text-translation-thoughts", "title": "Pesach - The Paschal Lamb - Hebrew Text, Translation, Thoughts", "author": "caroline", "author_handle": "carmar21comcastnet", "author_initials": "CA", "covertext": "פֶּסַח שֶׁהָָיוּ אֲבוֹתֵינוּ אוֹכְלִים, עַל שׁוּם מָה? עַל שׁוּם שֶׁפָּסַח הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, עַל בָּתֵּי אֲבוֹתֵ...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "פֶּסַח שֶׁהָָיוּ אֲבוֹתֵינוּ אוֹכְלִים, עַל שׁוּם מָה? עַל שׁוּם שֶׁפָּסַח הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא, עַל בָּתֵּי אֲבוֹתֵינוּ בְּמִצְרַיִם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: וַאֲמַרְתֶּם זֶבַח פֶּסַח הוּא לַיָּי, אֲשֶׁר פָּסַח עַל בָּתֵּי בְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּמִצְרַיִם, בְּנָגְפּוֹ אֶת־מִצְרַיִם וְאֶת־בָּתֵּינוּ הִצִּיל.\n\nThis Pesach that our ancestors used to eat, what's the reason? It's because the Holy One, blessed be He, passed over the houses of our ancestors in Egypt, as it is said: \"It is the Passover offering for the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he defeated Egypt and saved our houses.\" \n\n\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\nThe Pesach here, of course, is the lamb, because of the whole blood on the doorposts thing and God passing over us and all that. But more likely, we probably chose the lamb because for the Egyptians the lamb was a pretty sacred animal. Not \"cat sacred,\" but enough so that we probably offended them enough to rile them up.\nAnd another interesting fact: vegetarians often use beets instead of shankbones. They look \"bloody\" from all of the juice and there's precedent in the Talmud that they were used even back then. \n</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Original Haggadah, Translation and Thoughts by Robbie Medwed", "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": 209, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Pesach - The Paschal Lamb - Hebrew Text, Translation, Thoughts | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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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I am almost done with the manuscript and I welcome comments and hope that my pages will get use at other Seder tables.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Philip Goldwasser", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163843/Page-1_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163843/conversions/Page-1_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 392, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Kadesh U'rhatz | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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/kadesh-urhatz", "og:title": "Kadesh U'rhatz | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163843/conversions/Page-1_0-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "glbt-seder-plate", "title": "The GLBT Seder Plate", "author": "caroline", "author_handle": "carmar21comcastnet", "author_initials": "CA", "covertext": "The traditional Seder plate contains… Bitter Herbs - מָרוֹר Egg - בֵּיצָה Parsley - כַּרְפַּס Greens - יְר...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "The traditional Seder plate contains… \nBitter Herbs - מָרוֹר\nEgg - בֵּיצָה\nParsley - כַּרְפַּס\nGreens - יְרָקוֹת\nCharoset - חֲרֹסֶת\nShank bone – זְרוֹעַ\nWhen the hardships imposed by the Pharaoh did not slow down the population growth of the Israelites, Pharaoh then decreed that all Israelite males born should be killed. However, the Israelite midwives – Shifra and Puah – who were ordered by Pharaoh to be in charge of this task, feared the wrath of God and made sure that this did not happen. The Pharaoh then ordered his people to throw every male child born to an Israelite in the Nile River. Pharaoh was afraid that Israelite males would grow up to become fighters against his regime. Pharaoh spared Israelite girls because he doubted they would become fighters against his regime, and he thought they would marry Egyptian men and adopt Egyptian values.\nBut they did not! Baruch Ha’shem…\nAs human beings today, we reflect with great distance on the hardship of our ancient ancestors but with great commitment we spend a significant amount of energy retelling and remembering their suffering and story of perseverance annually. As we make great efforts to celebrate and commemorate, we also turn and look at our recent history and the stories that surround our collective struggle to bring equality and respect to all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and any other divisible way we segment ourselves in our modern lives. \nThe GLBT community has made great strides in the last half century to receive recognition, acceptance and respect as human beings and within the Jewish community great attempts have been made to further inclusion efforts within the community on spiritual and cultural fronts. We sit here today to celebrate, commemorate and further commit ourselves to making all people welcome and respected here at this table and everywhere we can in our everyday lives.\nAs GLBT community members, allies, friends and family of the GLBT community, our second Seder Plate symbolically represents our lives, our struggles and our progress here and now. \nOur GLBT Seder plate contains…\nOrange - תַּפּוּז\nCoconut - קוֹקוֹס\nSour Vegetables - חֲמוּצִים\nFruit Salad - סָלַט פֵּרוֹת\nSticks and Stones - זֶרֶדִים וְאֶבֶנִים\nFlowers – פְּרָחִים\n ", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "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": 238, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The GLBT Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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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Tonight at our GLBT Passover Seder we incorporate a fifth question and answer. “What is unique or different about tonight’s seder, why tonight do we have Pride?” Pride is a very symbolic word in the GLBT community. We use this word often and tonight we have the opportunity to demonstrate how proud we are of our sexual orientation and gender identity.\nמַה נִּשְּׁתַּנָה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת!\n שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין חָמֵץ וּמַצָּה, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כּוּלוֹ מַצָּה? שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין שְׁאָר יְרָקוֹת, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מָרוֹר? שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אֵין אֶנוּ מַטְבִּילִין אֲפִילוּ פַּעַם אֶחָת, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה שְׁתֵּי פְעָמִים? שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין בֵּין יוֹשְׁבִין וּבֵין מְסֻבִּין, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלָנו מְסֻבִּין?\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת סֵדֶר אָנוּ עוֹשִים סֵדֶר מָסָרְתִּי, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלָנוּ גַאִים?\n \nMah nish-ta-na ha-lai-lah ha-zeh mi-kol ha-lei-lot! \nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot a-nu och-lin ha-metz u-matzah.\nHa-lai-lah ha-zeh, ku-lo matzah?\n \nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot a-nu och-lin sh’ar y’ra-kot.\nHa-lai-lah ha-zeh, maror?\n \nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot ein a-nu mat-bi-lin a-fi-lu pa-am e-hat.\nHa-lai-lah ha-zeh, sh-tei fi-ah-mim?\n\nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot a-nu och-lin bayn yosh-vin ou-vein mis-u-bin.\nHa-lai-lah ha-zeh, ku-la-nu mis-u-bin?\n\nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot sed-er a-nu o-seem sed-er ma-sar-ti.\nHa-lai-lah ha-zeh, ku-la-nu ga-im?\n \nWhy is this night different from all other nights!\n\nOn all other nights we eat either leavened bread or matzah.\nWhy, on this night, do we eat only matzah?\n \nOn all other nights we eat all kinds of herbs.\nWhy, on this night, do we eat only bitter herbs?\n \nOn all other nights we do not dip herbs.\nWhy, on this night, do we dip them twice?\n \nOn all other nights we eat sitting or reclining on pillows.\nWhy, on this night, do we eat only reclining upon pillows?\n \nOn all other Seder nights we do a traditional Seder.\nWhy, on this night, do we have Pride? \n \nThe Five Answers\nSpeaker 1: We were slaves in Egypt. Our ancestor in flight from Egypt did not have time to let the dough rise. With not a moment to spare they snatched up the dough they had prepared and fled. But the hot sun beat as they carried the dough along with them and baked it into the flat unleavened bread we call matzah.\nSpeaker 2: The first time we dip our greens to taste the brine of enslavement. We also dip to remind ourselves of all life and growth, of earth and sea, which gives us sustenance and comes to life again in the springtime. \nSpeaker 3: The second time we dip the maror into the charoset. The charoset reminds us of the mortar that our ancestors mixed as slaves in Egypt. But our charoset is made of fruit and nuts, to show us that our ancestors were able to withstand the bitterness of slavery because it was sweetened by the hope of freedom.\nSpeaker 4: Slaves were not allowed to rest, not even while they ate. Since our ancestors were freed from slavery, we recline to remind ourselves that we, like our ancestors, can overcome bondage in our own time. We also recline to remind ourselves that rest and rejuvenation are vital to continuing our struggles. We should take pleasure in reclining, even as we share our difficult history.\nSpeaker 5: We are proud to be gay, straight, lesbian, bi, transgendered, queer and everything else under the rainbow. And all of us together here, add meaning to an age old Jewish tradition and for that we have pride. As a community we have come far, and while we are not done with our struggle, we should reflect proudly on our accomplishments as we celebrate here tonight at our GLBT Passover Seder.\n ", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "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": 253, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "MaNishtana - מַה נִּשְּׁתַּנָה: Our Five Questions | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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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She unknowingly hired Jochebed as a nurse to care for him, and Jochebed secretly taught Moses his Israelite heritage. At age 40, on a visit to see his fellow Israelites, Moses saw an Egyptian taskmaster beating an Israelite slave and in his rage, killed the Egyptian. Fearing for his life, Moses fled Egypt. He fled across the desert, for the roads were watched by Egyptian soldiers, and took refuge in Midian, an area in present-day northwestern Saudi Arabia along the eastern shores of the Red Sea.\n \nWhile in Midian, Moses met a Midianite priest named Jethro and became a shepherd for the next 40 years, eventually marrying one of Jethro’s daughters, Zipporah. Then, when Moses was about 80 years of age, God spoke to him from a burning bush and said that he and his brother Aaron were selected by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt to freedom. At first, Moses hesitated to take on such a huge task, but eventually Moses and his brother Aaron set about returning to Egypt, commencing what was to be the spectacular and dramatic events that are told in the story of Passover. It is said that the Israelites entered Egypt as a group of tribes and left Egypt one nation. It has also been estimated that the Passover exodus population comprised about 3 million people, plus numerous flocks of sheep who all crossed over the border of Egypt to freedom in Canaan.\n \nUnder the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III in Egypt in 1476 BCE, the Israelite leader Moses (“Moshe” in Hebrew) – guided by God – led his people out of Egypt after a series of 10 plagues that were created by God and initiated by Moses. Prior to most of the plagues, Moses had warned the Pharaoh about each plague and that it would devastate his people, if he refused to let the Israelites go. After the first two plagues, the Pharaoh refused to let them go because his court magicians were able to re-create the same miracles, and so the Pharaoh thought: “This proves that the Israelite God is not stronger than I.” But when the third plague occurred, the Pharaoh’s magicians were not able to duplicate this miracle; however, that still did not change the Pharaoh’s mind about letting the Israelites leave Egypt. After each subsequent plague, the Pharaoh agreed to let the Israelites go, but the Pharaoh soon changed his mind and continued to hold the Israelites as slaves. Finally, after the 10th plague, the Pharaoh let the Israelites go for good.\n With your finger tip, remove one drop of wine from your cup and wipe it on your plate, as each plague is mentioned…\n\nThe Second Cup – The 10 Plagues\n \nBlood – דָּם\nFrogs – צְפֵרְדֵּעַ\nLice – כִּנִים\nWild Beasts – עָרוֹב\nBlight – דֶּבֶר\nBoils – שְׁחִין\nHail – בָּרַד\nLocusts – אַרְבֶּה\nDarkness – חשֶׁךְ\nSlaying of the First-Born – מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת\n \nWhen the Pharaoh finally agreed to free the Israelite slaves, they left their homes so quickly that there wasn’t even time to bake their breads. So they packed the raw dough to take with them on their journey. As they fled through the desert they would quickly bake the dough in the hot sun into hard crackers called matzah. Today to commemorate this event, Jews eat matzah in place of bread during Passover.\n \nThough the Israelites were now free, their liberation was incomplete. The Pharaoh’s army chased them through the desert towards the Red Sea. When the Israelites reached the sea they were trapped, since the sea blocked their escape. When the Israelites saw the Egyptian army fast approaching toward them, they called out in despair to Moses. Fortunately, God intervened and commanded Moses to strike his staff on the waters of the Red Sea, creating a rift of land between the waves, enabling the Israelites to cross through the Red Sea to safety on the other side. Once the Israelites were safely across, God then commanded Moses to strike the waters of the Red Sea with his staff again, just as the Egyptian army followed them through the parted Red Sea. 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In London, The Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group, JGLG is formed.\n \n1974 Beth Chayim Chadashim is chartered by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, making it not only the first gay and lesbian synagogue, but also the first gay religious organization of any kind to be officially recognized by an American national body.\n \n1974 David Goodstein buys the LA Advocate, which will become the largest circulating gay newspaper.\n \n1980 World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations founded.\n \n1984 The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College faculty vote to admit gay and lesbian students.\n \n1989 Barnett \"Barney\" Frank comes out becoming the first openly gay Jewish member of the US Congress.\n \n1990 Reform Judaism voted in favor of admitting acknowledged, sexually active homosexuals into its rabbinate.\n \n1992 The Conservative law committee declared that Jewish law clearly prohibited commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples and the admission of openly gay people to rabbinical or cantorial schools.\n \n1993 Israel forbids discrimination against sexual orientation in its military.\n \n1997 the Jerusalem Open House is founded to serve the city's LGBTQ population regardless of religion or nationality.\n \n2000 The Central Conference of American Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanction religious ceremonies for same-sex couples.\n \n2000 Hebrew Union College founds the Institute for Judaism & Sexual Orientation to challenge and eliminate homophobia and heterosexism and to transform the communities connected to the Reform movement into ones that are inclusive and welcoming of GLBT Jews.\n \n2001 Award-winning documentary Trembling Before God released, a cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.\n \n2002 Uzi Even is sworn in as the first openly gay member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset.\n \n2002 Paul Colichman and Stephen P. Jarchow found HERE! America's 1st GLBT dedicated TV network\n \n2004 JQ International is born to serve the 20’s and 30’s demographic of the GLBT Jewish community with specific programming designed to fully integrate and reconcile the Jewish and GLBT identity among its young adult members. JAG, Judios Argentinos GLBT was born in Buenos Aires due to the interest of a group of friends and Rabbi Sergio Bergman who, together, addressed the lack of treatment of gay Jewish issues in the local Jewish Community.\n \n2006 The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, adopted policies giving gays and lesbians the chance to serve as clergy.\n \n2006 Israel's High Court of Justice rules that two gay men married in Canada, as well as four other same-sex couples wedded abroad, should have their union recognized in Israel.\n \n2007 The Jewish Community Foundation recognizes the valuable work of JQ International and provides significant funding to advance JQ's mission and create lesbian specific programming.\n \n2007 The Jewish Theological Seminary, the intellectual and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism, began accepting openly gay and lesbian candidates into its rabbinical and cantorial schools.\n \n2008 The Women's Programming committee is launched by JQ International to better understand and serve America's young adult lesbian Jewish population.\n \n2008 The 1st fully integrated GLBT Haggadah is created.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 248, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Eyru’ayim – The reading of the GLBT timeline – אֵירוּעַיִם | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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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Tonight we acknowledge and recognize the GLBT community’s endurance under ten additional plagues. For each of these plagues we continue our tradition of dipping our finger tip in our wine cups, and for each plague we place one drop of wine on our plates:\n\nBlood - דָּם: The blood shed in the Nazi death camps and in Queer-bashings. \n\nLaughter - צְחוֹק: The laughter caused by our stereotyped representation in jokes and in the media. \n\nGuilt - אַשְׁמָה: The guilt we are told is inherent in our simple existence. \n\nShame - בִּיֵּשׁ: The shame we are made to feel when we share our lives and our bodies with someone of the same gender as ourselves. \n\nDespair - יֵאוּשׁ: The despair we feel when we are told that we are evil and monstrous, that AIDS is God's judgment upon us. \n\nFear - פָּחַד: The fear caused by a hostile society that would cast us out if it knew what we are. \n\nPain - כְּאֵב: The physical pain of being attacked by homophobes, and the mental pain of being rejected by family and community. \n\nLoneliness - בְּדִידוּת: The loneliness of thinking that we are the only one of our kind. \n\nDarkness - אֲפֵלָה: The darkness of our closets, and of where many of us are forced to spend our lives: the bars, the parks, the unsafe neighborhoods. \n\nSilence - שֶׁקֶט: The hollow silence of when we do not speak out in our own defense, the silence from one generation to another. \n\n\n\nIn unison we say:\n\n\n\nWe may not have individually felt each plague, but since they afflict our community on a global level, they afflict us as well. Let us not become complacent.\n\n\n\nAnd let us not become so involved with our own problems that we forget others who also suffer. The path out of Egypt is open to all who flee slavery and seek the Promised Land.\n\n\n\nTo cleanse ourselves and wash off these ten GLBT plagues that still exist in our world today we wash our hands and say the blessing.\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "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": 258, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "GLBT Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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 flowers here on our Seder plate represent the beauty within each of us on this path of life, but we must recognize the sticks and stones that lay on our path to making us who we are today. For the members of our community that have suffered the pain and anguish of physical assault for being different and for those that have suffered verbal abuse and harassment we bow our heads, close ours eyes and reflect on our own experiences and how different our lives might have been had we been in your shoes.\n \nThese sticks and stones have affected us and shaped our identities. Today we remember the many crossroads, vistas, cracks and divots along the way.\n \nWe take the sticks, stones and flowers and recite:\n \nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהַכֹּל נִהְיָה בִּדבָרוֹ\n \nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha’Olam, she-ha-kol ni-h'yeh bid-va-ro. 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We use this as an example of \"When we were slaves,\" and to compare that to the Jim Crow laws of the Civil Rights era. We also compare my father's nanny who protected him to Shifra and Puah.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Jonathan Freund", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163849/Yellow-Bench_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163849/conversions/Yellow-Bench_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 289, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Yellow Bench | Passover haggadah by caroline", "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 refilling of the wine cups is also meant to provoke the young, by implying that a second kiddush is about to be made. All: On all other nights we eat leavened bread and matzah. Why on this night only matzah? Reader: Avadot hayinu. We were slaves. We were slaves in Mitzrayim. Our mothers in their flight from bondage in Mitzrayim did not have time to let the dough rise. With not a moment to spare they snatched up the dough they had prepared and fled. But the hot sun beat as they carried the dough along with them and baked it into the flat unleavened bread we call matzah. In memory of this, we eat only matzah, no bread, during Passover. This matzah represents our rush to freedom. All: On all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables. Why on this night do we make certain to eat bitter herbs? Reader: Avadot hayinu. We were slaves. We eat maror to remind us how bitter our ancestors’ lives were made by their enslavement in Mitzrayim. All: On all other nights we do not usually dip food once. Why on this night do we dip twice? Reader: Avadot hayinu. We were slaves. The first time we dip our greens to taste the brine of enslavement. We also dip to remind ourselves of all life and growth, of earth and sea, which gives us sustenance and comes to life again in the springtime. The second time we dip the maror into the charoset. The charoset reminds us of the mortar that our ancestors mixed as slaves in Mitzrayim. But our charoset is made of fruit and nuts, to show us that our ancestors were able to withstand the bitterness of slavery because it was sweetened by the hope of freedom. All: On all other nights we sit on straight chairs. Why on this night do we relax and recline on pillows during the seder? Reader: Avadot hayinu. We were slaves. Long ago, the wealthy Romans rested on couches during their feasts. Slaves were not allowed to rest, not even while they ate. Since our ancestors were freed from slavery, we recline to remind our selves that we, like our ancestors, can overcome bondage in our own time. We also recline to remind ourselves that rest and rejuvenation are vital to continuing our struggles. We should take pleasure in reclining, even as we share our difficult stories. A) Some of the questions people are really asking as they participate in a seder: 1. How many more hours until we eat? 2. Why on this night do some of us traditionally eat balls of reconstituted fish parts? 3. Will G-d strike me down if I get up to go to the bathroom during the maggid? 4. Why on this night do said fish balls always have slice of carrot on top, and is it true that jelled broth is in fact the Jewish people’s most enduring contribution to humanity? (2) B) A little discussion, eh? Share four questions that are coming up for you at this time. 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Haggadah Section: Commentary / Readings

“Mitzrayim,” Hebrew for Egypt, literally means narrow straits. Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more than the literal escape from slavery, more than an escape from a place of narrow straights, an obviously accurate physical description of Egypt, but metaphorically the leaving behind or “exodus” from a narrow place – the place that squeezes the life out of the human soul and body. Mitzrayim is viewed as an intrinsically constrictive state; a state where we are unable to express ourselves and be free, to be who we are as we seek to define ourselves to others.

Besides the obvious homophone (words with different meanings and different spellings but the same pronunciation) of strait and straight, which parallels the Israelites liberation and escape from narrow straits, a place of oppression, our GLBT community often seeks escape from narrow-minded straights. We gather here today as the result of GLBT activists that struggled and fought for the rights and privileges we have today and from the support of countless GLBT allies in the straight community. Those allies who have stood by us personally in our lives and those who we will never know that have stood by countless other GLBTs in our community today and historically. These straight allies have escaped narrow mindedness and chose the path of justice and righteousness.

We spend a lot of time focusing on those outside our community that we feel hold us down and fail to recognize us as equal or worthy of equal rights, but at what point will we focus on what holds us back from within the GLBT community? How can we work from within our community to improve how we view ourselves, our souls and the value of our gender identity and sexual orientation?

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