{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "introduction-399", "title": "Introduction", "author": "Liam Davis", "author_handle": "lrd16142176", "author_initials": "LD", "covertext": "Here’s a game: If you were allowed to only keep one Jewish ritual, what would it be? It could be anything—fasting on Yom...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Here’s a game: If you were allowed to only keep one Jewish ritual, what would it be? It could be anything—fasting on Yom Kippur, refusing to intermarry, shatnez—but you have to choose only one. My answer, in case you haven’t already guessed, is the Passover Seder, which I’d argue gives you more bang for the buck than any tradition, of any religion: a long drama that rivals Game of Thrones, with babies floating on rivers, sticks turning into snakes, plagues, a knockout liberation scene, plus a formal Q&amp;A session, a series of bizarre food items imbued with utterly ingenious symbolism, and more.</p>\n\n<p>And yet, even with all this competition, Passover’s most inspired feature is still its meta-message: A group of people had a terrifying, transcendent experience together, and they built themselves into a cohesive religious and political entity by telling the story of that complex, painful, magical, problematic event over and over and over again. The point couldn’t be clearer: Narrative is vital to life—the engine of progress, both for individuals and for civilization.</p>\n\n<p>But what if the narrative, or a part of it, makes you uncomfortable? There’s certainly no shortage of triggers in this one. What then?</p>\n\n<p>A few years ago, I attended a Seder hosted by a friend who, in her fifties, married a man who isn’t Jewish. Suddenly she found herself about to preside over a dinner during which the death of non-Jews is celebrated and Jews declare themselves “chosen”—all in front of her now-beloved non-Jewish spouse and stepchildren. Her first inclination was to replace the Hagaddah she had used her whole life with a more anodyne one. But, as she explained to me while we set the table together that night, she soon realized that doing so would actually subvert the entire purpose of the Seder, which is to challenge and engage. If she did not believe in or could not support one or more of these things, she should take the opportunity explicitly encouraged by the Seder to say so.</p>\n\n<p>For her, a commitment to the tradition and its text went hand in hand with overtly rejecting parts of it, and doing so in front of her new family members made it even more memorable. “It’s not like we Jews have kept the whole chosen idea a secret,” she said, wryly. “I think it was meaningful for my stepdaughter to hear it explained in historical context, and also frankly a relief to hear me say that I personally didn’t believe it.”</p>\n\n<p>It’s worth noting here that there’s no dictate against adding anything to the Seder; in fact, it’s the whole point: talk, talk, question, question, talk. Do you hate the idea that innocent Egyptians had to be killed in order for Jews to be liberated? Say so. 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We may no longer live in fear of global annihilation, but if we refuse to free ourselves of our own nuclear weapons, we are not truly safe.  We may enjoy a standard of living that is the envy of the world, but so long as hundreds of millions endure the agony of an empty stomach or the anguish of unemployment, we can not truly prosper. </p>\n\n<p>Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.  When we lead with our hopes instead of our fears, we do things that no other nations can do, no other nations will do.  So we have to lift up our eyes today and consider the day of peace with justice that our generation wants for this world. </p>\n\n<p>I'd suggest that peace with justice begins with the example we set here at home, for we know from our own histories that intolerance breeds injustice.  Whether it's based on race, or religion, gender or sexual orientation, we are stronger when all our people -- no matter who they are or what they look like -- are granted opportunity, and when our wives and our daughters have the same opportunities as our husbands and our sons.</p>\n\n<p>When we respect the faiths practiced in our churches and synagogues, our mosques and our temples, we're more secure.  When we welcome the immigrant with his talents or her dreams, we are renewed. When we stand up for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters and treat their love and their rights equally under the law, we defend our own liberty as well.  We are more free when all people can pursue their own happiness. And as long as lines exist in our hearts that separate us from those who don’t look like us, or think like us, or worship as we do, then we're going to have to work harder to wash the divisions that exist outside of our hearts away. </p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Pres. 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We must get out of the narrow place in our thinking and look at the world not as a resource, but as a focus for awe, wonder, and amazement. We must reject the societal story that identifies success and progress with endless growth and accumulation of things. Instead we will focus on acknowledging that we already have enough; we need to stop exploiting our resources and instead care for the earth.</p>\n\n<p>We are descended from slaves, people who staged the first successful slave rebellion in recorded history. Ever since, our people has kept alive the story of liberation, and the consciousness that cruelty and oppression are not inevitable “facts of life” but conditions that can be changed.</p>\n\n<p>The task may seem more overwhelming to us today than in previous moments. Today there is no longer some easily identifiable external evil force playing the role of Pharaoh. Instead, we live in an increasingly unified global economic and political system that brings well-being to some even as it increases the misery of others.</p>\n\n<p>We are in the midst of a huge spiritual and environmental crisis. Our society has lost its way. Yet most of us are even embarrassed to talk about this seriously, so certain are we that we could never do anything to transform this reality, and fearful that we will be met with cynicism and derision for even allowing ourselves to think about challenging the kind of technocratic and alienating rationality that parades itself as “progress” in the current world.</p>\n\n<p>Affirming that, we dip the greens on our Seder plate in joy at the beauty and goodness of this earth and its vegetation, and recommitting ourselves to do all we can to stop those processes in our society that are contributing to the destruction of the earth.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Rabbi Michael Learner", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 206, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Karpas | Passover haggadah by Liam Davis", "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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Our ways teach us that giving our lives in various ways for the protection of the rivers is giving our lives for the well-being of humanity and of this planet.</p>\n\n<p>Let us wake up! Let us wake up, humankind! We’re out of time. We must shake our conscience free of the rapacious capitalism, racism, and patriarchy that will only assure our own self-destruction. The Gualcarque River has called upon us, as have other gravely threatened rivers. We must answer their call. Our Mother Earth, militarized, fenced-in, poisoned, a place where basic rights are systematically violated, demands that we take action. Let us build societies that are able to coexist in a dignified way, in a way that protects life. Let us come together and remain hopeful as we defend and care for the blood of this Earth and of its spirits.</p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Berta Cáceres", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 186, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Quote | Passover haggadah by Liam Davis", "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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Can one Matzo be both a symbol of wretchedness and deliverance?</p>\n\n<p>Matzo is a paradox.</p>\n\n<p>The matzo enables us to taste slavery— to imagine what it means to be denied our right to live free and healthy lives. We eat this matzo to relive the oppression our ancestors experienced, but in doing so, we also exercise our privilege. We exercise the privilege of suffering, the opportunity to feel pain for a moment but not have it last for longer than we wish. We can break our bread of affliction, just as we can choose to end our suffering.</p>\n\n<p>But, while we will soon enjoy a large meal and end the seder night as free people, millions of people around the world can not leave the affliction of hunger behind. As we break the middle matzo, let us awaken to their cries and declare:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Kol dichfin yeitei v’yeichol—let all who are hungry, come and eat</strong></p>\n\n<p>Let us bring autonomy to all people over their sources of sustenance.</p>\n\n<p>Let us end the exploitation of natural resources so that the land may nourish its inhabitants.</p>\n\n<p>Let us assist communities in bolstering themselves against the destruction wrought by our own community.</p>\n\n<p>Let us bring our world leaders to recognize food as a basic human right and to implement policies and programs that put an end to world hunger.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Hashata avdei—this year we are still slaves. Leshanah haba’ah b’nei chorin—next year we will be free people.</strong></p>\n\n<p>This year, hunger and malnutrition are still the greatest risks to good health around the world. 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