Here's To You, Harry (or whatever your name is, person who is reading this Haggadah)

We move through stanzas of praise and gratitude — like magical spells and incantations — to the heroes, encouraging influences, and sources of strength in our lives:

Our teachers, who believed in us and taught us tough but essential lessons;

Our parents, who sheltered us and provided us with our connections to the past;

Our faith, in a Divine entity or an essential human kindess, or something else;

The friends and mentors we've found along the way, who share our blood or our sense of responsibility;

And we raise this last glass to them.

Grape juicium leviOH-sa!

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haggadah Section: Hallel

Source: Esther Kustanowitz

Featured clips

Introduction

Four Questions in Fictional Languages

by Haggadot

-- Four Questions

The Four Representation Questions

by Esther Kustanowitz

-- Four Children

Four Is Fantastic

by Esther Kustanowitz

-- Four Children

Star Wars Four Children

by Mamie Stewart

-- Four Children

The Four Children of Star Wars

by ReformJudaism.org

-- Four Children

The Four Children Interacting

by Esther Kustanowitz

-- Four Children

The Four Children Interacting

by Esther Kustanowitz

-- Exodus Story

Leaving Egypt

by Esther Kustanowitz

-- Ten Plagues

Plaguing Egypt

by Esther Kustanowitz

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Infinity Stone Dayenu

by Haggadot

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Dayenu As "What If?"

by Esther Kustanowitz

More clips from Esther Kustanowitz

-- Four Questions

Nephew Gil and The Case of the Missing Challah

by Esther Kustanowitz

Cover

Free to Be...

by Esther Kustanowitz

(Author's Note: This was originally published in the NY Jewish Week in 2008.) Free to Be... Growing up, I often listened to a work of feminism undercover as children’s album and book — “Free to Be You and Me.” From “Free to Be,” I learned that I could be anything, that parents were people and that “every boy in this land learns to be his own man, and in this land every girl grows to be her own woman.” I learned...

Maggid - Beginning

Spring Cleaning

by Esther Kustanowitz

(Author's Note: This was originally published in the NY Jewish Week in April 2008.) Spring Cleaning I’ve been cleaning my apartment in increments: a shelf here, a desk drawer there, purge a file folder or four. Part of it was tax-practical, to find my 2007 receipts so I could claim deductions for my freelance lifestyle—part of it was Passover, lurking as it does beyond the hamantashen. But in plumbing the depths of cabinets and drawers, there were unexpected finds. Earrings I...