{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "gratitude-for-the-meal", "title": "Gratitude for the meal", "author": "Secular Synagogue", "author_handle": "denise-handlarski-1", "author_initials": "SS", "covertext": "The Barech section of the seder is a reminder to pause to be grateful for the meal we have eaten. Sometimes people speed...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p>The Barech section of the seder is a reminder to pause to be grateful for the meal we have eaten. Sometimes people speed through blessings to check the box of barech but let's take a special moment to be mindful. <br />\n<br />\nWe are grateful for the earth that provides beauty, sustenance, and abundance. </p>\n\n<p>We are grateful for the farmers, the grocer store workers, all those who work to ensure food arrives at our table. </p>\n\n<p>We are grateful for those who prepared our food. </p>\n\n<p>We are grateful for those who share our meal and our seder.</p>\n\n<p>We are grateful for those who work to ensure food access and security for all. </p>\n\n<p>We are grateful for our food, nourishing us in body and soul. </p>\n\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": 271, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Gratitude for the meal | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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, like all those many others, respect this tradition while we make it our own. </p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "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": 325, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Welcome! | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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": "dayenu-647", "title": "Dayenu", "author": "Secular Synagogue", "author_handle": "denise-handlarski-1", "author_initials": "SS", "covertext": "At the seder we say/sing that: If we had been brought out of Egypt, Dayenu If we had received Torah, Dayenu If we had re...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p>At the seder we say/sing that:</p>\n\n<p>If we had been brought out of Egypt, Dayenu</p>\n\n<p>If we had received Torah, Dayenu</p>\n\n<p>If we had received Manna, Dayenu</p>\n\n<p>Etc.</p>\n\n<p>Dayenu means “it would have been enough.” The idea is to be grateful for what one has; to count our blessings. Think of dayenu as a template for gratitude. </p>\n\n<p>But think, too, about how actually it is to enough to be satisfied when there is still suffering and oppression. Some say “lo dayenu,” meaning, “it is not enough.” </p>\n\n<p>When we are free and others are not, lo dayenu</p>\n\n<p>We work to find the balance between being grateful for what is right with our lives and with the world, and also striving for more that fulfills us and more that increases justice in the world. </p>\n\n<p>From Marti Keller:</p>\n\n<p>DAH YAY NU “ It would have been enough.”</p>\n\n<p>Everyone Join in Song ( we will just sing the Chorus)</p>\n\n<p>EE-LOO HO-TSI AH-NOO</p>\n\n<p>HO-TSI AH-NOO MEE-MITS-RAY-YEEM</p>\n\n<p>HO-TSI AH-NOO MEE MITS-RA-YEEM</p>\n\n<p>DAH YAY-NOO.</p>\n\n<p>DAH-DAH YAY-NOO, DAH DAH YAY-NOO</p>\n\n<p>DAH DAH YAY-NOO, DAH=YAY NOO DAH YAY NOO</p>\n\n<p>Dayenu- the recognition of and giving of blessings of life, no matter what trials. No matter what we have been given to work with.</p>\n\n<p>It is after the telling of the parting of the Sea of Reeds and the Egyptian army has been turned back, after Miriam, Moses' sister, dances as she crosses over the shallow river bed that the Dayenu is sung. We are told that the Dayenu is a blessing is for all that led to the deliverance of the Jewish people. The traditional Dayenu has 15 verses, shaped and modified over the centuries:15 different thanks and praises.</p>\n\n<p>Dayenu. Dayenu. Dayenu.</p>\n\n<p>One rabbi has said that it is a Zen Koan in the midst of a bible story. Even before we are freed, we are given enough, we are given what we need. In the story of the Exodus, even before we are given the tablets of laws, we are given enough, we are given what we need. Even before we cross into the Promised Land, even if we never reach it, we are given what we need.</p>\n\n<p>The story of the Exodus, the Passover myth, the Dayenu blessings, remind us of the difference between freedom—being released from captivity or slavery from being physically bound or imprisoned—and true liberation from all the emotional and social oppressions that keep us captive. The kind of liberation that finally frees us from just surviving, the most superficial safety, and allows for the kind of salvation and redemption that in freeing us, frees the whole world…</p>\n\n<p>As one Passover Hagadaah urges us- we can sing Dah Yay Nu to celebrate each step we take toward liberation as if it were enough and then start on the next step. We can say today, though, these gifts are not enough unless we apply these lessons to our daily lives. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "urchatz-handwashing-2", "title": "Urchatz - handwashing", "author": "Secular Synagogue", "author_handle": "denise-handlarski-1", "author_initials": "SS", "covertext": "Hand washing – submitted by Carly Sutherland Carly sent many things reminding us of the link between handwashing and Cov...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Hand washing – submitted by Carly Sutherland</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Carly sent many things reminding us of the link between handwashing and Covid-19 prevention, not the least of which is a reminder that those of us who have access to running water and homes that can accommodate social distancing and cleanliness are very lucky indeed. Not everyone enjoys these freedoms. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>There have been many handwashing jokes about Passover this year! Here’s a fun one:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Soap is sold out </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>No sanitizer here don’t bother coming in </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Cleanliness is next to godliness </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>To wash our hands is to keep the fear at bay </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>To tell ourselves we’ll live another day </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Holiness and desperation intertwined. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>My husband’s hands split from soap and alcohol </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Performing rites of Groceries, of Medication, of Doctors and Pharmacies </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>For those who cannot.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> Kids sing happy birthday </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Come on Eileen, COVID-19 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>She was a dancing queen, young and sweet, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>in quarantine </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>I dance in my kitchen, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>sauteing onions Boiling water for asparagus. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Soap is scarce, but I have water </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>I have water </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>We are not worried about water </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>For now, for now. For now </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>While Flint is left </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>While climate changes </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>While the underpaid and uninsured become the high priestesses </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Of Food, of Supply Chain, of Post Office, of Janitorial. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>May we remember what sacredness this has taught us</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> May we remember to share our blessings </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>May we remember to see the divine in others </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>May we see the sacred in what we take for granted </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Better than we did before. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Oh please Oh please Oh please</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>", "cliptype": "", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Urchatz", "slug": "urchatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 272, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Urchatz - handwashing | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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/urchatz-handwashing-2", "og:title": "Urchatz - handwashing | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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-761", "title": "Dayenu", "author": "Secular Synagogue", "author_handle": "denise-handlarski-1", "author_initials": "SS", "covertext": "Submitted by Michelle Sajadi: Dayeinu: What in our lives do we take for granted, but may actually be enough for us? Let'...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p>Submitted by Michelle Sajadi:</p>\n\n\n\n<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dayeinu: What in our lives do we take for granted, but may actually be enough for us? Let's share! After each person shares, respond: Dayeinu!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>\n\n<div> </div>\n\n<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><span><span><span>As we gather virtually this year, at this difficult time, let's think about the aspects of our lives that we take for granted, but actually may be enough for us. This year, Dayenu will be about gratitude for those things. In turn, please recite what would have been enough for you.</span></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>\n\n<div> </div>\n\n<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><span><span><span>Mine: I am grateful this year to be able to celebrate with my loved ones. While I wish we could be together in person, I'm thankful that we have the means to connect virtually and to make those connections meaningful.</span></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>\n\n<div> </div>\n\n<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><span><span><span>Group: Day-Day-Einu, Day-Day-Einu, Day-Day-Einu, Dayeinu Dayeinu!</span></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>\n\n<div> </div>\n\n<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><span><span><span>etc...</span></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>\n\n<div> </div>\n\n<div><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><font><font><span><span><span>In addition, I love this analysis (Jonathan Ratner, available on Haggadot.com):</span></span></span></font></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>\n\n<div>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>One of the primary purposes of the Passover seder is to make us feel as if we personally experienced the exodus from Egypt and the redemption from slavery to freedom. This is no less true for the way we understand the Dayenu song. Dayenu provides a powerful contemporary hashkafah (outlook on life), a call to mindfulness about the way we currently lead our lives. We live in an era when capitalism is our state (and increasingly global) religion. Consumption is unfettered by any internal sense of restraint, from the amount of soda we can drink to how much money Wall Street executives can make. We live in a world where it is okay that the richest 85 people in the world have total wealth equal to that of the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dayenu reminds us that there is another way. Judaism offers an outlook on wealth, consumption, and sufficiency (sova) that is very counter-cultural. InPirkei Avot(Ethics of our Fathers) 4:1, Ben Zoma teaches: “Who is rich? The one who is content with what one has.” Even more austere, the Talmud instructs: “An individual who can eat barley bread but eats wheat bread is guilty of transgressing the law of bal tashchit (unlawful waste). Rabbi Papa states: one who can drink beer but drinks wine instead is guilty of transgressing the law of bal tashchit.” (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 140b). Judaism is not, to be sure, an ascetic religion. We are encouraged to carve out occasions for excess, for enjoying the finer parts of living—on Shabbat, holidays, and other joyous occasions. But the wisdom of Judaism is that, if we want to experience delight on these special occasions, we also need moments of restraint. It is the juxtaposition of restraint and largess that creates a life of meaning.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Beyond the individual experience, we also are becoming increasingly aware of the global consequences of championing unbridled materialism over a sense of sufficiency. From income inequality to climate change, our refusal to entertain limits on what we do and how much we consume are wreaking destructive consequences. By returning to a sense of Dayenu, of thinking deeply about what is enough, we have the potential to change ourselves and our world. May we be blessed, on this Pesah and beyond, to replace the idolatry of consumption with an embrace of all that we have.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n</div>", "cliptype": "", "clipsource": null, "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": 261, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dayenu | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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-761", "og:title": "Dayenu | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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": "passover-5781-a-new-kind-of-desert", "title": "Passover 5782 - a new kind of desert", "author": "Secular Synagogue", "author_handle": "denise-handlarski-1", "author_initials": "SS", "covertext": "When we gathered over zoom in 5780/ 2020 with our families and communities, most people thought that it was an anomaloy;...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p>When we gathered over zoom in 5780/ 2020 with our families and communities, most people thought that it was an anomaloy; that by the next year Passover could be \"normal\" once again. While we are grateful for vaccines, it is clear that there is no \"normal\" to return to. Things remain altered; we are changed.</p>\n\n<p>The pandemic reminds me of the Exodus narrative itself. The telling of the story at our seder usually ends as the Israelites cross the sea and begin wandering in the desert. To me, however, the wandering is everything. While the early taste of freedom is met with sweetness and song, the feeling didn't last. Some Israelites long to return to Egypt because even to live enslaved seems preferable sometimes than to live with uncertainty. The people often forget to be grateful for their freedom and kvetch (complain) about their conditions and situation. Moses, their leader, quickly learns he needs help to lead. He builds a team and with that team  <em>the </em> people figure out how to be  <em>a </em> people. It can't happen overnight. It takes many many years of wandering.</p>\n\n<p>Here we are together -- online. We are not newly in this landscape, we have been wandering in it for a while. Like all who wander, we are not sure exactly where we're going or how we will get there. We feel uncertain. Like the Israelites, we may long to \"go back\" to how things used to be, even though, when we really think about it, things weren't all that great for many of us. It is hard to live with uncertainty. It can be hard to remember to stay grateful for the things that can bring us together -- digital technologies, creative programming, and more. Leaders are emerging during this time but the best among them are realizing that to lead is to make sure no one is left behind. We need a team. We need each other. </p>\n\n<p>This new desert, this wandering, is our opportunity to come together as Jews and as thriving, vibrant, beautiful communities. I, for one, do not wish to \"go back.\" Of course I am glad for a return to some pre-pandemic realities like being able to gather, to hug, to do some of the activities I miss. But there is no \"going back,\" there is only forging ahead. Out of this desert wandering I long for a brighter future in which no one is left behind. I long for a future built on meaningful commitments to diversity and equity. I long for a future in which we work <em>for</em> a future by resolving to protect our planet. I long for a future in which our Jewish communities grow stronger by becoming more inclusive and celebratory of the ways in which our differences make us better, rather than letting difference divide us. Finally, I wish for us that however we make our way through this desert, we rememeber that we need each other and we act accordingly long into the future. </p>\n\n<p>This has been a hard time but I remain hopeful and grateful. May we celebrate the freedoms we enjoy and may we resolve to keep fighting for greater freedom for all. </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Favorites 2021", "slug": "favorites-2021-1", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": "Passover 5782 - a new kind of desert | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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 r...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p>For almost every year I can remember, this meal has tasted like brisket cooked with carrots, onions, and potatoes. The recipe handed down from a great grandmother, tweaked by each generation and smothered in gravy served in both fine china from my parents’ wedding and Tupperware older than I am. This meal has tasted like hot, soothing and simple matzah ball soup, simmered over the stove for long hours, each ball shaped lovingly by my mother’s Catholic hands. For my interfaith family, the Passover Seder has always been a joyous meeting of multiple worlds, a woven tapestry or shawl in a familiar and comforting pattern. A table full of family and friends of multiple faiths and backgrounds, laughing, singing, eating, and drinking together. For many years I took the same picture of my parents smiling over the candles, glasses of blackberry Manischewitz in their hands. I look at these pictures and see my dad’s mustache come and go; my mom’s hair change from long and blonde to bald and covered, to short and gray. The other faces around the table have changed as well. Three of my beloved grandparents have stopped appearing in the photos, and the fourth I’ve only seen over Zoom for the past year. Last year this meal tasted like tacos delivered from a local restaurant, and my picture of my parents is a Zoom screenshot. But we did our best. And this year, we will do the same. I am determined to be present and appreciative of family, food, wine and tradition. May we all strive to be present and appreciative together, regardless of what life brings and how our meals taste.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Shulchan Oreich", "slug": "shulchan-oreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 245, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The meal - by Jess Hoffman | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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": "take-action-on-refugees-migrants-where-you-are", "title": "Take action on refugees/migrants where you are", "author": "Secular Synagogue", "author_handle": "denise-handlarski-1", "author_initials": "SS", "covertext": "The narrative of Passover is a story of moving towards freedom; an Exodus that ends with the promise of a new land, a ne...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p>The narrative of Passover is a story of moving towards freedom; an Exodus that ends with the promise of a new land, a new start. Let's move towards action at the seder, not just talking about liberation but helping others towards it: Here are some resources:</p>\n\n<p>US:</p>\n\n<p>https://www.hias.org/get-involved/take-action</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.raicestexas.org%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2Ma_mDSgr671wHZRhVEfGg7WQaNtDFXq5uddPXf8qnixAzdg0W4JWhC-o&amp;h=AT3R5S1rnv6pRroXTgGihbyEBeZSsyB2y-6rLTuxnvnJAO8GDE8WB27gh4xcrTVPiW1zgnl-eWn1CD2-Az1YSomwMGG3oYPmMamtjkLxbZKWTyMy8kyX7hbyiW_m8qrQNQ&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c%5B0%5D=AT3wKP7q0CCKle--iUd8Bss7HnDpEfaMp7SqbTL5OJaRf-tBYplk1NDjoGQpGIdYeJ6jziQl3RnEUWVZ7qGo1JYIqKHwZRHWHBsjg3OQOYHgguYw4GmaUEZPM67iH7EA9qVzvGtB-w3umzRJmwRdXZtbXffQkkkMMuI\">https://www.raicestexas.org</a></p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.borderangels.org/?fbclid=IwAR0OJ-wvmV5l7soV1DTzvuShoNKKfBYS2rObmw-jAzHKsP2w8UA7Pg9tbWI\">https://www.borderangels.org</a></p>\n\n<p>Canada: </p>\n\n<p>https://jiastoronto.org/jias-volunteer/</p>\n\n<p>UK:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://donate4refugees.org/what-we-do-2021?fbclid=IwAR0Fnvt0kWfBqzXvIYCeU7Ss6HmqbDsJJM1-R-ybjIZEqdwiSW22es12h2I\">https://donate4refugees.org/what-we-do-2021</a></p>\n\n<p>Europe:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.rescue.org/refugees-europe?fbclid=IwAR0ADYyrCJc53qL-hcOEyCoEeRiSMBIUIDFMcA0qxmbJV6O3ca4jyningpc\">https://www.rescue.org/refugees-europe</a></p>\n\n<p>US and Israel/Palestine: </p>\n\n<p>https://truah.org/campaigns/</p>\n\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "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": 234, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Take action on refugees/migrants where you are | Passover haggadah by Secular Synagogue", "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 wis...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/conversions/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/386141/CAE0D829-2CA6-4EB7-B64E-D5433BD30451.png", "body": "<p>It is traditional to end the seder by setting an intention for where we wish to be next year as we meet for Seder. I wish for us to be together, online, in our international, intersectional, intergenerational community. I wish for us to be able to say that we worked hard for freedom and justice. I wish for us to remember to meet challenges with learning, laughter, and love. And, always, to find a little more joy and lot less \"oy\". 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