{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "israel-0", "title": "Israel", "author": "Hannah Hirschland", "author_handle": "hannahhirschland126358", "author_initials": "HH", "covertext": "A Note on Israel Passover celebrates freedom, exemplified in the story of our Exodus from Egypt. That story leads our en...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><u><strong>A Note on Israel</strong></u></p>\n\n<p>Passover celebrates freedom, exemplified in the story of our Exodus from Egypt. That story leads our entry into Israel—not exactly a simple redemption tale. Especially not now, as Israelis and Palestinians continue to fight for their mutual Promised Land, and to shed blood in pursuit of its ownership. In light of that situation, some of us may have complicated feelings about identifying with Israel. But “Israel” doesn’t refer only to the Land. “Israel” is the name which was given to Jacob after he spent the night wrestling with an angel of God. Therefore “the people Israel” can be interpreted as “Godwrestling people”—“people who take on the holy obligation of engaging with the divine.”</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>When I see the word \"Israel\"</strong></u></p>\n\n<p>When I see the word Israel I see Isra-el wrestles with God God is victorious</p>\n\n<p>When I see the word I do not see the chosen few I see those few who choose</p>\n\n<p>Those few who choose to wrestle with You, a contest in which both wrestlers are one and in which the one is victorious</p>\n\n<p>I see those few who choose, among the many nations among all people, those few who choose to make love to you and those who say: I betroth myself to you whether it feels like honey or a thornbush because even the thornbush sometimes glows with fire of revelation</p>\n\n<p>When I see the world Israel I know many claim it as their own As a title a privilege a status As if God chose them</p>\n\n<p>they are right in this: God chooses but they are wrong in thinking: only them</p>\n\n<p>God breathes through many begotten sons and daughters God wrestles through his glorious perverts and professors</p>\n\n<p>and as there is only one contestant for better or for worse... this wrestling is an embrace of recognition and delight</p>\n\n<p>do you seek God? God seeks you. Who will you allow to be victorious?</p>\n\n<p>(—Jay Michaelson)</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "velveteenrabbi.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 205, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Israel | Passover haggadah by Hannah Hirschland", "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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On such a night as this, Israel went from degradation to joy....", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Long ago at this season, our people set out on a journey.</p>\n\n<p> <em>On such a night as this, Israel went from degradation to joy.</em> </p>\n\n<p>We give thanks for the liberation of days gone by.</p>\n\n<p> <em>And we pray for all who are still bound.</em> </p>\n\n<p>Eternal God, may all who hunger come to rejoice in a new Passover.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Let all the human family sit at Your table, drink the wine of deliverance, eat the bread of freedom.</em> </p>\n\n<p>Freedom from bondage</p>\n\n<p> <em>and freedom from oppression</em> </p>\n\n<p>Freedom from hunger</p>\n\n<p> <em>and freedom from want</em> </p>\n\n<p>Freedom from hatred <em>​</em> </p>\n\n<p> <em>and freedom from fear</em> </p>\n\n<p>Freedom to think</p>\n\n<p> <em>​and freedom to speak</em> </p>\n\n<p>Freedom to teach</p>\n\n<p> <em>and freedom to learn</em> </p>\n\n<p>Freedom to love <em>​</em> </p>\n\n<p> <em>and freedom to share</em> </p>\n\n<p>Freedom to hope</p>\n\n<p> <em>and freedom to rejoice</em> </p>\n\n<p>Soon, in our days</p>\n\n<p> <em>Amen</em> </p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Gates of Freedom, velveteenrabbi.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 205, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Gates of Freedom Introduction | Passover haggadah by Hannah Hirschland", "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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May this season, marking the deliverance of our people from Pharaoh, rouse us against anyone who keeps others in servitude. In gratitude for the freedom we enjoy, may we strive to bring about the liberation of all people everywhere. Lighting these candles, we create the sacred space of the Festival of Freedom; we sanctify the coming-together of our community.</p>\n\n<p>בָּ רוּך אַ תָּ ה יְ יָ, אֱ להֵ ינוּ רוּחַ הַ עוֹֹ לָ ם, אָ שֶ ר קִ דְ שָ נוּ בְּ מִ צְ וֹתָ יו וְ צִ וָ נוּ לְ הָ דלִ יק נֵ ר שֶ ל יוֹם טוֹֹ ב.</p>\n\n<p>Baruch atah, Adonai, eloheinu ruach ha’olam, asher kidshanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu l’hadlik ner shel Yom Tov.</p>\n\n<p>Blessed are you, Adonai our God, Breath of Life, who sanctifies us with your commandment to kindle the holiday lights.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Kadesh", "slug": "kadesh" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 211, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Sanctifying the day | Passover haggadah by Hannah Hirschland", "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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They opened windows to the sun hung lines for the airing out of blankets and covers using fire air and water in the cleaning.</p>\n\n<p>In the month of nisan before the parting seas called them out of the old life our ancient mothers went down to the river they went down to the river to prepare their garments for the spring.</p>\n\n<p>Hands pounded rock voices drummed out song there is new life inside us Shekhinah prepares for Her birth.</p>\n\n<p>So we labor all women cleaning and washing now with our brothers now with our sons cleaning the inner house through the moon of nisan.</p>\n\n<p>On the eve of the full moon we search our houses by the light of a candle for the last trace of winter for the last crumbs grown stale inside us for the last darkness still in our hearts.</p>\n\n<p>Washing our hands we say a blessing over water… We light a candle and search in the listening silence search the high places and the low places inside you search the attic and the basement the crevices and crannies the corners of unused rooms. Look in your pockets and the pockets of those around you for the traces of Mitzrayim.</p>\n\n<p>Some use a feather some use a knife to enter the hard places.</p>\n\n<p>Some destroy Hametz with fire others throw it to the wind others toss it to the sea. 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Thi...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><u><strong>Welcome the Stranger </strong></u> 04.21.16</p>\n\n<p>As others flee through deserts, across oceans, radical religious empathy is in order.</p>\n\n<p>This Friday evening, Jews around the world will begin their Passover meals with the ancient story of our journey from slavery to freedom, the galvanizing narrative that has been at the center of our identity and morality as a people for more than 3,500 years.</p>\n\n<p>A “night different from all other nights,” as the Haggadah teaches, the symbolic meal has served as a source of strength, inspiration, questions and arguments that have animated for every generation what it means to live a life of meaning wherever we have settled—under monarchies, dictatorships or thriving, pluralist democracies such as here in the United States.</p>\n\n<p>Consider just the foods. Matzah, the bread of affliction; Maror, the bitter herb of slavery; Parsley dipped in salt water, tears of oppression drenching the rebirth of spring. And then there are the mythic tellings, dramas wrought to keep the children glued to the table: Ten Plagues, from flies and lice to darkness and the killing of the First Born. And triumphantly, impossibly, the parting of the Red Sea, through which the Israelites narrowly escaped an Egyptian army in hot pursuit. A happy, miraculous ending.</p>\n\n<p>Such triumphs are a precious rarity in our world today, where we are bearing witness to more than 60 million refugees worldwide, the greatest such crisis to confront humanity since the close of the Second World War.</p>\n\n<p>The great war photographer Robert Capa imagined a Passover innovation called <a href=\"http://booksproseandverse.blogspot.com/2013/12/robert-capa-slightly-out-of-focus-memoir.html\">Crossover Day</a>, where the children of the soldiers who survived the beach of Easy Red on D-Day, would “after finishing a couple of cans of C-rations… ask their fathers, ‘What makes this day different from all other days?’” And the fathers would then recount their own tale of a very human vanquishing of evil and totalitarianism.</p>\n\n<p>Today, social media is inundated with delicious recipes for seder meals but deeper, more urgent questions and symbols demand a place at the table as well.</p>\n\n<p>Last year, we saw the body of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian child drowned alongside his mother and 5-year-old brother, washed ashore. He is asking us, demanding of us, from the other side: “How is this year different from all other years?” Or perhaps he even echoes God, who, when accusing Cain in the murder of his brother Abel, says, “Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the land.”</p>\n\n<p>Aylan Kurdi is Syrian. He’s Afghani. He’s from the Congo, from Guatemala, from Mexico, and he’s a Jew from Poland, from Germany, from Egypt. He’s you and me.</p>\n\n<p>Our telling of the Passover demands and the Haggadah teaches that as we hold the Matzah we recite, “This is the bread of affliction. Let all who are hungry come and eat.” Jewish tradition is quite clear that through the year and especially in this season, at this moment, in this time, we are to see ourselves as if we have just left Egypt.</p>\n\n<p>This is radical religious empathy at its best. The Sages who wrote the Haggadah seemed to intuit that the Passover message would resonate for future generations of Jews if they were able to see themselves in others’ struggles for redemption and in so doing, join hands in a greater universal struggle for freedom and justice for all.</p>\n\n<p>The Passover Seder, then, was designed to be prophetic and discomforting, a paradoxically extravagant and joyous meal of comfort and celebration, staged for the pedagogic purpose of moving us to redemptive action that keeps the story by prompting action to save those most in need.</p>\n\n<p>More than a century ago, as European empires gave way to burgeoning revolutionary movements, Jews of Eastern and Central Europe moved en masse, fleeing pogroms and persecution for freedom on safer shores. So many of the more than 3 million Jews who came to the United States between 1880 and 1920 were aided by <a href=\"http://www.hias.org/\">HIAS</a>, the the Jewish nonprofit dedicated to refugee resettlement.</p>\n\n<p>It’s a testimony to the adaptive characteristics of human reinvention that while Jews on the whole are no longer refugees, with the majority of the world’s Jews living in America and Israel, HIAS is one of many organizations which have recast its mission to carry on its values of compassion and hospitality.</p>\n\n<p>“Welcome the stranger. Protect the refugee.” These are the first words one sees on the<a href=\"http://www.hias.org/\">HIAS website</a> and they speak to this core idea, especially in this Passover season, that none of us are truly free until all are free. This year, the group has <a href=\"http://www.hias.org/passover2016\">a Passover supplement</a>, to encourage discussion and offer avenues for meaningful action. At the 92Y, where I work, we are partnering with the Multi-Faith Alliance for Syrian Refugees to send personal hygiene kits to thousands of people stranded in Greece and Turkey.</p>\n\n<p>Each small action helps prompt and develop a necessary and ongoing awareness of the parallels between our own history as a people and that of others, opening the door not just for Elijah the Prophet but for each of us to find ways to welcome the stranger, who we once were in this land, and build bridges of understanding and compassion and refuge.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Daily Beast, Adam Bachman", "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": 204, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "At the Seder Dinner as 60 Million Refugees Wander in the Wilderness | Passover haggadah by Hannah Hirschland", "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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You haven’t said goodbye to the places where you hid as a child, to the friends who aren’t interested in the journey, to the graves you’ve tended.</p>\n\n<p>But if you wait until you feel fully ready you may never take the leap at all and Infinity is calling you forth out of this birth canal and into the future’s wide expanse.</p>\n\n<p>Learn to improvise flat cakes without yeast. Learn to read new alphabets. Wear God like a cloak and stride forth with confidence. You won’t know where you’re going</p>\n\n<p>but you have the words of our sages, the songs of our mothers, the inspiration wrapped in your kneading bowl. 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We have pushed the limits of our imaginations, embracing the idea that we, too, were slaves in Egypt, and we, too, will celebrate next year’s seder in a Jerusalem filled with peace. We have savored the taste of a dry, humble cracker—at once the bread of poverty and the symbol of our redemption. Tonight, we have shared our table with prophets and let the voices of our ancestors mingle with our own songs of praise. And now, that intensity begins to fade away. We look around through tired eyes—there is wine spilled on the table, matzah crumbs cover the floor. It is time to do the dishes.</p>\n\n<p>We are poised, right now, somewhere between Jerusalem and our kitchen sinks. The demands of the ordinary pull us away from the seder’s extraordinary delights, and we are faced with the task of keeping the songs of freedom ringing in our ears. There is no easy way to do this; no simple formula can guide every one of us. 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