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Haggadah Section: -- Cup #2 & Dayenu
no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well.

no one would leave home unless home chased you, fire under feet, hot blood in your belly.

it's not something you ever thought about doing, and so when you did - you carried the anthem under your breath, waiting until the airport toilet to tear up the passport and swallow, each mouthful of paper making it clear that you would not be going back. you have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.

who would choose to spend days and nights in the stomach of a truck unless the miles travelled meant something more than journey.

and if you survive and you are greeted on the other side with go home blacks, refugees dirty immigrants, asylum seekers sucking our country dry of milk, dark, with their hands out smell strange, savage - look what they've done to their own countries, what will they do to ours?

for now, forget about pride your survival is more important. i want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark home is the barrel of the gun and no one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore unless home tells you to leave what you could not behind, even if it was human. no one leaves home until home is a damp voice in your ear saying leave, run now, i don't know what i've become.

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Honoring The People Of Ukraine
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    Introduction
  • Prayer for Ukraine
  • 2022 Ukraine Refugee Crisis
  • "Седер на Песах". авторка Зоя Черкаська-Ннаді
  • The Sunflower on Our Seder Table: For Ukraine
  • Nigun | Ukraine | Jewish folk tune
    • Commentary / Readings
  • Winter is Over: Ukrainian Schoolchild's Poem, 1920, NLI
  • Poem by a Ukrainian Schoolchild, 1920, NLI
  • A Prayer for Peace and the people of Ukraine
  • An Extraordinary Word for Good
    • Yachatz
  • From Amidst Brokenness
    • Maggid - Beginning
  • Sunflower Seeds on My Seder Plate
  • JDC Ukraine
  • Prayer for the People of Ukraine
    • -- Four Questions
  • Four Questions in Ukrainian
    • -- Four Children
  • "Четверо дітей". Авторка Зоя Черкаська-Ннаді
    • -- Exodus Story
  • Never Again? This Passover Share Thoughts on the War in Ukraine
  • Take Only What Is Most Important
    • -- Cup #2 & Dayenu
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  • Sunflowers On Your Table
    • Bareich
  • Kavannah for Opening the Door for Elijah
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  • Sunflowers
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