{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "home-warsan-shire-0", "title": "\"Home\" by Warsan Shire", "author": "M Herschfeld", "author_handle": "moses-hetfield", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "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 a...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/383858/conversions/smile-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/383858/smile.png", "body": "<p>no one leaves home unless<br />\nhome is the mouth of a shark<br />\nyou only run for the border<br />\nwhen you see the whole city running as well.</p>\n\n<p>your neighbors running faster than you<br />\nbreath bloody in their throats<br />\nthe boy you went to school with<br />\nwho kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory<br />\nis holding a gun bigger than his body<br />\nyou only leave home<br />\nwhen home won’t let you stay.</p>\n\n<p>no one leaves home unless home chases you<br />\nfire under feet<br />\nhot blood in your belly<br />\nit’s not something you ever thought of doing<br />\nuntil the blade burnt threats into<br />\nyour neck<br />\nand even then you carried the anthem under<br />\nyour breath<br />\nonly tearing up your passport in an airport toilets<br />\nsobbing as each mouthful of paper<br />\nmade it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.</p>\n\n<p>you have to understand,<br />\nthat no one puts their children in a boat<br />\nunless the water is safer than the land.<br />\nno one burns their palms<br />\nunder trains<br />\nbeneath carriages<br />\nno one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck<br />\nfeeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled<br />\nmeans something more than journey.<br />\nno one crawls under fences<br />\nno one wants to be beaten<br />\npitied</p>\n\n<p>no one chooses refugee camps<br />\nor strip searches where your<br />\nbody is left aching<br />\nor prison,<br />\nbecause prison is safer<br />\nthan a city of fire<br />\nand one prison guard<br />\nin the night<br />\nis better than a truckload<br />\nof men who look like your father<br />\nno one could take it<br />\nno one could stomach it<br />\nno one skin would be tough enough</p>\n\n<p>the<br />\ngo home blacks<br />\nrefugees<br />\ndirty immigrants<br />\nasylum seekers<br />\nsucking our country dry<br />\nniggers with their hands out<br />\nthey smell strange<br />\nsavage<br />\nmessed up their country and now they want<br />\nto mess ours up<br />\nhow do the words<br />\nthe dirty looks<br />\nroll off your backs<br />\nmaybe because the blow is softer<br />\nthan a limb torn off</p>\n\n<p>or the words are more tender<br />\nthan fourteen men between<br />\nyour legs<br />\nor the insults are easier<br />\nto swallow<br />\nthan rubble<br />\nthan bone<br />\nthan your child body<br />\nin pieces.<br />\ni want to go home,<br />\nbut home is the mouth of a shark<br />\nhome is the barrel of the gun<br />\nand no one would leave home<br />\nunless home chased you to the shore<br />\nunless home told you<br />\nto quicken your legs<br />\nleave your clothes behind<br />\ncrawl through the desert<br />\nwade through the oceans<br />\ndrown<br />\nsave<br />\nbe hunger<br />\nbeg<br />\nforget pride<br />\nyour survival is more important</p>\n\n<p>no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear<br />\nsaying-<br />\nleave,<br />\nrun away from me now<br />\ni dont know what i’ve become<br />\nbut i know that anywhere<br />\nis safer than here</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Warsan Shire", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 194, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "\"Home\" by Warsan Shire | Passover haggadah by M Herschfeld", "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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Maror (Horseradish...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/383858/conversions/smile-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/383858/smile.png", "body": "<p><strong><u>The Seder Plate</u></strong></p>\n\n<p>The items on the Seder Plate remind us of different aspects of the Passover story.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Maror </em> (Horseradish) reminds us of the bitterness of our slavery in Egypt and the bitterness in all the lives of those who are still not free.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Charoset</em> (mixture of fruit, nuts, wine, and spices) represents the mortar we used for construction as slaves in Egypt.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Karpas</em> (parsley) represents the spring, a time of renewal.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Beitzah</em> (egg/tofu) represents hope for a new life after liberation.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Zeroah</em> (shankbone/beet) represents the sacrifices that must be made to achieve liberation.</p>\n\n<p> <em>The orange</em> is a relatively new addition to the Seder Plate, which is included in many seders precisely because it is untraditional. 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Today we will use a modified version of this, adapted from a American Jewish World Service's <em>Global Justice Haggadah</em>. </p>\n\n<p>At Passover, we are confronted with the stories of our ancestors’ pursuit of liberation from oppression. When confronting this history, how do we answer our children when they ask us how to pursue justice in our time?</p>\n\n<p><strong>The activist child asks, <em>“The Torah tells me, ‘Justice, justice shall you pursue,’ but how can I pursue justice?”</em> </strong></p>\n\n<p>Empower this child always to seek pathways to advocate for the vulnerable. As Proverbs teaches, “Speak up for the mute, for the rights of the unfortunate. Speak up, judge righteously, champion the poor and the needy.”</p>\n\n<p><strong>The skeptical child asks, <em>“How could I solve problems of such enormity? What's the point in even trying?”</em> </strong></p>\n\n<p>Encourage this child by explaining that they need not solve the problems, they must only do what they are capable of doing. As we read in <em>Pirke Avot</em>, “It is not your responsibility to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.”</p>\n\n<p><strong>The indifferent child asks, <em>\"These problems aren't my fault, and they aren't affecting me, so why should I care?\"</em> </strong></p>\n\n<p>Persuade this child that responsibility cannot be shirked. As Abraham Joshua Heschel writes, “The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference. In a free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”</p>\n\n<p><strong>The uninformed child does not know enough to ask.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Teach this child about our people’s history and the Jewish value of <em>tikkun olam</em>, repairing the world. 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She adopted him and named him Moses (meaning “drawn from the water”).</p>\n\n<p>Years later, Moses came upon an Egyptian overseer beating an Israelite. Outraged, Moses slew the Egyptian, but then fled Egypt for fear that his action would be discovered. Following his escape, Moses settled down in a new community and worked as a shepherd. While herding sheep, he came upon a burning bush that was not consumed by the flames. G-d’s voice came forth from the bush, commanding Moses to go back and lead the Israelites out of Egypt.</p>\n\n<p>Moses went to Pharaoh and demanded the release of the Israelites. Pharaoh repeatedly said no--nine times. Each time he said no, another plague (blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts and darkness) struck Egypt. Finally, God struck dead all the Egyptian first born. After this final tenth plague, Pharaoh finally said “yes” and the Israelites left Egypt. </p>\n\n<p>Pharaoh changed his mind and sent his army to chase the Israelites, who were soon trapped between the Egyptian army and the Sea of Reeds. 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When Israel was in Egypt's land, <br />\nlet my people go; <br />\noppressed so hard they could not stand, <br />\nlet my people go.</p>\n\n<p><br />\n<strong>Refrain: <br />\nGo down, (go down) Moses, (Moses) <br />\nway down in Egypt's land; <br />\ntell old Pharaoh <br />\nto let my people go! </strong><br />\n<br />\n2. \"Thus spoke the Lord,\" bold Moses said, <br />\nlet my people go; <br />\n\"if not, I'll smite your first-born dead,\" <br />\nlet my people go. <br />\n(Refrain) <br />\n<br />\n3. No more shall they in bondage toil, <br />\nlet my people go; <br />\nlet them come out with Egypt's spoil, <br />\nlet my people go. <br />\n(Refrain) <br />\n<br />\n4. 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