Eliahu | Make Your Own Passover Haggadah

Eliyahu

We open the door and invite Eliyahu and Miriam into our homes. To show how truly free we are, we send our youngest to open the door.

Elijah the prophet - may we create a world where everyone experiences redemption and freedom, growth and possibility. Let all who are hungry be fed, let all who are bereaved be comforted, let all who suffer find release.

Eliyahu Hanavi, Eliyahu Hatishbi,
Eliyahu Eliyahu EliyahuHagiladi,
Bimherah beyamenu Yavo Elenu
Im Mashiach Ben David.

Elijah the Prophet, Elijahthe Tishbite,
Elijah the Giladite,

haggadah Section: Bareich

Featured clips

-- Ten Plagues

Ten Plagues - Frog

by Haggadot

Nirtzah

Passover is the night for reckless dreams

by Mikaela Mathern

Introduction

March on Washington, 1963

by Haggadot

Urchatz

Urchatz - Dip Hands

by Lisa Friedman

The beginning of the seder seems strange. We start with kiddush as we normally would when we begin any festive meal. Then we wash, but without a blessing, and break bread without eating it.What’s going on here?It seems that the beginning of the seder is kind of a false start. We act as if we are going to begin the meal but then we realize that we can’t – we can’t really eat this meal until we understand it, until we...

Commentary / Readings

Gender

by Zoe Kaplan

This piece was written by Rabbi Elliot Kukla, the first out transgender rabbi. He was ordained in 2006 at HUC-JIR’s Los Angeles campus, and now works as a chaplain at the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. A few years ago at Kol Nidre I delivered a sermon on the power of diversity to my congregation in Toronto. Afterwards, in the swirling crowd I felt someone tug at my jacket. I turned around to find a nine-year-old by in lavender shiny “Powerpuffs”...

Kadesh

First Cup of Wine

by Deb Putnoi

Nirtzah

Next Year in Jerusalem

by JewBelong

Introduction

Passing the Red Sea Introduction

by Mary Chezick

Welcome to Sinai. As you have just crossed the Red Sea, you have had to make many hard choices: freedom or slavery? Pettiness or tolerance? Materialism or life. In many ways, we are in shock of our recent actions. We find ourselves reflecting on what we’ve done. Did we really just leave Egypt? Did a band of slaves—no—ex-slaves really push the leader of one of the greatest empires of our time to let his workforce just leave? Many of us are...

Tzafun

Shalom Sesame: Les Matzarables

by Haggadot

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

The Passover Symbols, The Orange & Miriam's Cup

by Jewish Women's Archive

The Passover SymbolsWe have now told the story of Passover… but wait! We’re not quite done. There are still some symbols on our seder plate we haven’t talked about yet. Rabban Gamliel would say that whoever didn’t explain the shank bone, matzah, and marror (or bitter herbs) hasn’t done Passover justice.The shank bone represents the Pesach, the special lamb sacrifice made in the days of the Temple for the Passover holiday. It is called the pesach, from the Hebrew word meaning...

Cover

Silenced

by Lauren Kahn

Hallel

Blessed are you who made me free

by Sunny Nguyen

-- Four Children

Four Children

by Matan Inc

-- Four Children

Pesah Man (Sing to tune of Piano Man)

by Eli Garfinkel

It’s eight o’clock on a festive eve The Haggadah sons shuffle past They are wise, and wicked, and simpleton And one who doesn’t know how to ask The wise son says “Dad, wontcha call on me.” I know the Torah and the codes They’re good and they’re sweet And I know ‘em complete The others might as well take a doze. La-di-die-diddy-die. . . Sing us a song you’re the Pesah man Sing us a song tonight Well we’re all in...

Introduction

Intro

by Dara Sabadin

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...

Urchatz

by Haggadot

Urchatz

Urchatz - Wash Your Hands To Prepare for the Seder

by Jewish Boston

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...

-- Four Children

4 Responses to Living in Unacceptable Times

by Emilia Diamant

More clips from Ady Fisberg Levine

-- Exodus Story