{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "maggid-egyptian-kariates", "title": "Maggid of Egyptian Kariates ", "author": "Avraham Schutte", "author_handle": "xabafox", "author_initials": "AS", "covertext": "In the name of the Redeemer of Israel who responds to those who seek him (NB)Praise YHWH. I will praise YHWH with my who...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<center><strong>In the name of the Redeemer of Israel</strong> <br /><strong>who responds to those who seek him (NB)</strong></center><p>Praise YHWH. I will praise YHWH with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. The works of YHWH are great, sought out by all them that have pleasure therein. His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endures forever. He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: YHWH is gracious and full of compassion. He has given meat to them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant. He has shown his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. He sent redemption to his people: he has commanded his covenant forever: holy and reverend is his name. The fear of YHWH is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures forever (Ps 111,1-10).</p><p>I will remember the works of YHWH: surely I will remember your wonders of old. I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of your doings. Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people. You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah (Ps 77,12-16 [11-15]). You are YHWH the God, who chose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham (Neh 9,7). <strong>And thus you informed, Abraham our father of the oppression of his seed in a land that was not their as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And he said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them; four hundred years. And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance (Gen 15,13-14). Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies. He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtly with his servants (Ps 105,23-25).</p><p><strong>And thus the Egyptians dealt subtly with our fathers and oppressed them and enslaved them and embittered their lives as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor (Ex 1,14).</p><p><strong>And Pharaoh and Egypt issued two more decrees upon our forefathers. The first decree was through the midwives as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah. And he said, When you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then you shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live (Ex 1,15-16).</p><p><strong>A second decree was through his people as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive (Ex 1,22). <strong>And YHWH saved them from them and kept them alive as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live; yea, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live (Ez 16,6). For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant (Ps 105,42). And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect to them (Ex 2,24-25).</p><p><strong>For YHWH saw the suffering of our forefathers in Egypt and favored them and pitied them and sent them a savior and redeemer to redeem them and save them as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And YHWH said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows (Ex 3,7). Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt (Ex 3,10). He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen. They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham (Ps 105,26-27). Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants (Ps 135,9).</p><p><strong>And they are the ten plagues with which YHWH smote Pharaoh and Egypt (NB)</strong></p><p><strong>First, blood;</strong> <br /><strong>Second, frogs;</strong> <br /><strong>Third, lice;</strong> <br /><strong>Fourth, swarms;</strong> <br /><strong>Fifth, pestilence;</strong> <br /><strong>Sixth, boils;</strong> <br /><strong>Seventh, hail;</strong> <br /><strong>Eighth, locusts;</strong> <br /><strong>Ninth, darkness;</strong> <br /><strong>Tenth, first-born, to smite and to kill as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And it came to pass, that at midnight YHWH smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead (Ex 12,29-30). They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish (Isa 26,14). Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving (Ps 69,29-31 [28-30]). Sing to YHWH, praise YHWH: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers (Jer 20,13). <strong>And thus YHWH our God commanded us through Moses our teacher to tell our children and our children's children as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am YHWH (Ex 10,2).</p><p>And you shalt speak and say before YHWH your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: And when we cried to YHWH God of our fathers, YHWH heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression: And YHWH brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders (Dt 26,5-8). How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan. And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham (Ps 78,43-51). He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes (Ps 105,37). And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness (Ps 105,43). O bless our God, you people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard. Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to be moved (Ps 66,8-8). YHWH has done great things for us; whereof we are glad (Ps 126,3). And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures forever (Ps 126,34). Blessed be YHWH, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth (Ps 124,6).</p><p><strong>Blessed be our God and the God of our fathers who performed miracles and gallantry and marvels for our forefathers in these days and at this time; And He saved them and redeemed them and delivered them from the domination of Pharaoh King of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and He took them out with silver and gold, in joy and song, from suffering to respite, from slavery to freedom and led them upright; For YHWH chose them to be to him a chosen people from among the nations, and He made them great and raised them up high above and took great vengeance upon their enemies and He gave them his wonderful Torah as an inheritance and He gave them Holidays of happiness and joy. Blessed is He and exalted beyond all blessing and praise (cf. Ezra 9,5) forever and for eternity, Selah (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>Blessed is He who kept us alive and sustained us and made us survive until this time, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>Let it be the will of YHWH our God that He cause to happen speedily, to us and all his people the house of Israel, all the good news and consolation spoken by all of his prophets and may He make us worthy to see the time of our salvation and may we all ascend to YHWH our God happy and with a good heart to rejoice in the joy of Jerusalem and the joy of the Temple of YHWH. And then shall we bring Passover sacrifices and offer burnt offerings and peace offerings and we will thank and praise the eternal Rock, the perfect God who chose us from all the nations and separated us from all the tongues. And we will sing and rejoice and say(NB):</strong></p><p>And my soul shall be joyful in YHWH: it shall rejoice in his salvation. All my bones shall say, YHWH, who is like to you, which delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoils him (Ps 35,9-10)? He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his holy ones; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise YHWH (Ps 148,14). Praise YHWH. Praise, O servants of YHWH, praise the name of YHWH. Blessed be the name of YHWH from this time forth and forevermore. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same YHWH's name is to be praised. YHWH is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. Who is like to YHWH our God, who dwells on high, Who comes down to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise YHWH (Ps 113,1-9).</p><p>When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? Oh Jordan, that you were driven back? Oh mountains, that skipped like rams; and little hills, like lambs? Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters (Ps 114,1-8).</p><p>Not to us, O YHWH, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth's sake (Ps 115,1). He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: YHWH is gracious and full of compassion (Ps 111,4). From generation to generation they shall praise your works, and shall declare your mighty acts (Ps 145,4). So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you thanks forever: we will shew forth your praise to all generations (Ps 79,13). But we will bless YHWH from this time forth and forevermore. Praise YHWH (Ps 115,18).</p><p>You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently (Ps 119,4). And Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of YHWH (Lev 23,44).</p><p>These are the feasts of YHWH, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons (Lev 23,4). Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you (Ex 12,15-16). In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even (Ex 12,18). It is a night of watching for YHWH to bring them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of watching for YHWH for all the children of Israel in their generations (Ex 12,42).</p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us with the days of holidays of joy and the times and holy convocations and this Feast of Unleavened Bread, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe, who has kept us alive and sustained us and made us survive until this time in peace, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p>O give thanks to YHWH; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever. O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy endures forever. O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endures forever (Ps 136,1-3).</p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe, who has blessed his people Israel with this Feast of Unleavened Bread and with the Holidays of joy and holy convocations, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who gives us joy and happiness and creates the fruit of the vine, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>[And all the participants shall taste (of the wine) and afterwards take unleavened bread and bitter herbs in your hand and say]</strong></p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us about eating unleavened bread and bitter herbs, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>[And make the bread blessing and say]</strong></p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us to eat unleavened bread for seven days and who brings bread of affliction out of the earth, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>[And when the Holiday falls out on the Sabbath say this blessing]</strong></p><p>And Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of YHWH (Lev 23,44).</p><p>Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, Concerning the feasts of YHWH, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of YHWH in all your dwellings (Lev 23,2-3).</p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who sanctifies his people Israel from all the nations and blesses and makes great and sanctifies and chooses this day of the Sabbath, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>[And take the cup of wine in your hand and make the blessing saying]</strong></p><p><strong>Time to sanctify (NB):</strong> Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made (Gen 2,1-3).</p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who blesses and sanctifies his people Israel with this Feast of Unleavened Bread and with Holidays of joy and holy convocations, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>And bless our God king of the universe who created the vine and from its wine makes happy the hearts of men as it is written (NB):</strong></p><p>And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart (Ps 104,15).</p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who blesses and sanctifies the day of the Sabbath for his people Israel, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>And bless our God king of the universe who gives us joy and happiness and creates the fruit of the vine, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>[And all the participants shall taste (of the wine) and afterwards take unleavened bread and bitter herbs in your hand and say]</strong></p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us about eating unleavened bread and bitter herbs, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>[And make the bread blessing and say]</strong></p><p><strong>Blessed are you YHWH our God, king of the universe who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us to eat unleavened bread for seven days and who brings bread of affliction out of the earth, Amen (NB).</strong></p><p><strong>[Blessing after the Meal]</strong></p><p><strong>[When the holiday falls out on the Sabbath skip \"YHWH is good to all\" and say here \"And the children of Israel shall keep\"]</strong></p><p>YHWH is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works (Ps 145,9). Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever: And has redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endures forever (Ps 136,23-24). <strong>Blessed be he (NB)</strong> who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures forever. O give thanks to the God of heaven: for his mercy endures forever (Ps 136,23-26). Let your mercy, O YHWH, be upon us, according as we hope in you (Ps 33,22). Blessed be YHWH forevermore. Amen, and Amen (Ps 89,53 [52]). Blessed be you, YHWH God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O YHWH is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O YHWH, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come of you, and you reign over all; and in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all. Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name (1Chr 29,10-13). But we will bless YHWH from this time forth and forevermore. Praise YHWH (Ps 115,18). The eyes of all wait upon you; and you give them their meat in due season. You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing (Ps 145,15-16). <strong>Sate us with satisfaction and hunger distance from us and feed us our daily food and may your table be set for all. We live by your great tolerance and good kindness and we are sustained by the opening of your hand. For you are He who feeds and sustains and supports all and prepares food and sustenance for all your creatures that you created. Blessed are you YHWH who feeds all, Amen. Let us thank YHWH for his kindness and for his wonderful works to man (cf. Ps 107,8) (NB).</strong> For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness (Ps 107,9). They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied (Ps 37,19).</p><p><strong>[And on the Sabbath and Holiday (i.e. when the holiday falls out on Sabbath) say this]</strong></p><p>And the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days YHWH made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed (Ex 31,16-17). And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said to them, These are the words which YHWH has commanded, that you should do them. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of rest to YHWH: whosoever does work therein shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the Sabbath day (Ex 35,1-3). You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am YHWH (Lev 19,30). You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my Sabbaths: I am YHWH your God (Lev 19,3).</p><p>These are the feasts of YHWH, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their seasons (Lev 23,4). And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to YHWH throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread (Ex 12,14-20). Seven days you shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to YHWH. Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with you, neither shall there be leaven seen with you in all your quarters. And you shalt shew your son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which YHWH did to me when I came forth out of Egypt. And it shall be for a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that YHWH's law may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand has YHWH brought you out of Egypt. You shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year (Ex 13,6-10).</p><p>And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which YHWH our God has commanded you? Then you shalt say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and YHWH brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: And YHWH shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers. And YHWH commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear YHWH our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before YHWH our God, as he has commanded us (Dt 6,20-25). And you shall serve YHWH your God, and he shall bless your bread, and your water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you (Ex 23,25). And houses full of all good things, which you did not filled, and dug wells, which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant; when you shalt have eaten and be full (Dt 6,11). When you have eaten and are full, then you shalt bless YHWH your God for the good land which he has given you (Dt 8,10). Bless YHWH, O house of Israel: bless YHWH, O house of Aaron: Bless YHWH, O house of Levi: you that fear YHWH, bless YHWH. Blessed be YHWH out of Zion, who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise YHWH (Ps 135,19-21).</p><p>Praise YHWH. Praise, O servants of YHWH, praise the name of YHWH. Blessed be the name of YHWH from this time forth and forevermore. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same YHWH's name is to be praised. YHWH is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. Who is like to YHWH our God, who dwells on high, Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth! He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people. He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise YHWH (Ps 113,1-9).</p><p>When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? Oh Jordan, that you were driven back? Oh mountains, that skipped like rams; and little hills, like lambs? Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; Which turned the rock into standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters (114,1-8).</p><p>Not to us, O YHWH, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your mercy, and for your truth's sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he has done whatsoever he has pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like to them; so is every one that trusts in them. O Israel, trust you in YHWH: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in YHWH: he is their help and their shield. You that fear YHWH, trust in YHWH: he is their help and their shield. YHWH has been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear YHWH, both small and great. YHWH shall increase you more and more, you and your children. You are blessed of YHWH which made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are YHWH's: but the earth has he given to the children of men. The dead praise not YHWH, neither any that go down into silence. But we will bless YHWH from this time forth and forevermore. Praise YHWH (Ps 115,1-18).</p><p>I love YHWH, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell seized hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of YHWH; O YHWH, I beseech you, deliver my soul. Gracious is YHWH, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. YHWH preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. Return to your rest, O my soul; for YHWH has dealt bountifully with you. For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk before YHWH in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. What shall I render to YHWH for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of YHWH. I will pay my vows to YHWH now in the presence of all his people. Precious in the sight of YHWH is the death of his saints. O YHWH, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds. I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of YHWH. I will pay my vows to YHWH now in the presence of all his people. In the courts of YHWH's house, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise YHWH (Ps 116,1-19).</p><p>O praise YHWH, all you nations: praise him, all you people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of YHWH endures forever. Praise YHWH (Ps 117,1-2).</p><p>O give thanks to YHWH; for he is good: because his mercy endures forever. Let Israel now say, that his mercy endures forever. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endures forever. Let them now that fear YHWH say, that his mercy endures forever. I called upon YHWH in distress: YHWH answered me, and set me in a large place. YHWH is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do to me? YHWH takes my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me. It is better to trust in YHWH than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in YHWH than to put confidence in princes. All nations compassed me about: but in the name of YHWH will I destroy them. They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of YHWH I will destroy them. They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of YHWH I will destroy them. You have thrust sore at me that I might fall: but YHWH helped me. YHWH is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of YHWH does valiantly. The right hand of YHWH is exalted: the right hand of YHWH does valiantly. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of YHWH. YHWH has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise YHWH: This gate of YHWH, into which the righteous shall enter. I will praise you: for you have heard me, and are become my salvation. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is YHWH's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day which YHWH has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I beseech you, O YHWH: O YHWH, I beseech you, send now prosperity. Blessed be he that comes in the name of YHWH: we have blessed you out of the house of YHWH. God is YHWH, who has shown us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise you: you are my God, I will exalt you. O give thanks to YHWH; for he is good: for his mercy endures forever (Ps 118,1-29).</p><p>YHWH will give strength to his people; YHWH will bless his people with peace (Ps 29,11). Blessed be YHWH forevermore. Amen, and Amen (Ps 89,53 [52]).</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "\"Order of the Haggadah of the Feast of Passover According to the Custom of the Karaite Jews\", The National Religious Council Publication, Jerusalem 1973 The translation of Biblical verses ar", "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": 236, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Maggid of Egyptian Kariates | Passover haggadah by Avraham Schutte", "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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There are parades, picnics, parties and firework displays all expressing national pride in the Zionist dream of a Jewish State in the Land of Israel after almost 2,000 years. We showed them, say the politicians in their speeches. With our own sweat and blood and against all odds we created a nation. We're proud to be Israelis.</p><p><span></span></p><p>This style of celebration, noisy and flag-waving and proud, captures something of the spirit that led a nation to declare its independence. A similar spirit surges up in France on Bastille Day and in the U.S.A on the 4^th of July as with many other nations on their birthdays. These celebrations are secular in their entirety, bearing a striking unlikeness to the Independence Day described in the Tora, our true Independence Day, a day called Passover.</p><p><span></span></p><p>We can trace our birth as a nation back to a dark, foreboding night, our last in Egypt (Exodus, Chapter 12). There are no parades, picnics, parties or firework displays to commemorate this event. Everything takes place inside a home, with a family or cluster of families gathered around a table. Participants partake in a meal consisting of a roasted lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread, while reciting portions of the Mikra, which relate to YHWH's promises and deeds in connection with our redemption. This Independence Day is a service dedicated to YHWH whose deliverance of us from bondage was an expression of his love for his chosen people. Each item, the roasted lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread all have their place and their significance. It is not a party. We were born in slavery, a fact that exerts a sobering influence and places the attainment of any subsequent glory into correct perspective, and a fact that teaches humility.</p><p><span></span></p><p>More than anything else, our Independence Day, our Freedom Festival expresses this one fact: YHWH did it. No armies stood against the mighty Egyptians. Freedom came in the blackest night while families huddled around the Passover table, their bags packed, waiting for deliverance. Deliverance not just from the bondage of the body and physical pleasures of life but from spiritual servitude. When YHWH's time came, the Egyptian captors not only released us, but begged us to go and showered us with gold and riches. We remember that event with humility and praise; there is no room for pride. Later, when Pharaoh changed his mind and set his chariots loose upon our fleeing tribes, YHWH came through again. All Israel stood a trembling, already having doubts about their freedom. But YHWH destroyed the great Egyptian army affirming that he does not remain aloof and distant from the affairs of mankind. In the events of the Exodus we realized that YHWH was not just a national deity but the King of all Creation, the Master of History, YHWH is our Savior and he alone.</p><p><span></span></p><p>We were redeemed with a purpose, to serve YHWH and to keep his Tora. True freedom is not just the negation of slavery, in whatever form it manifests itself, but the willing acceptance of a higher discipline. Israel attained complete and true freedom at Sinai when we willingly accepted the discipline demanded by the Tora. We were released from subjection to an earthly master in order to prove our worth as a chosen people prepared to serve YHWH. The truth has therefore been impressed upon us: there is no absolute freedom! Only a choice of masters, we can serve YHWH and be free, or else serve man and be enslaved.</p><p><span></span></p><p>Therefore for us, the Children of Israel, independence from Egypt means dependence upon YHWH. This pattern of dependence was to continue throughout our time in the wilderness. When we ran out of water, YHWH provided. When food supplies failed, YHWH provided. When the 'Amelekites attacked, YHWH provided. Independence Day set the tone for a national history, the national history of YHWH's chosen people-Israel, a national history that is unlike the history of any other nation on earth for it is the history of the action of YHWH. A history that is intricately entwined with YHWH's plans for mankind, it is a sacred history.</p><p><span></span></p><p>YHWH comes back to the Exodus one hundred and fifty-six times throughout the Mikra as a way of describing himself: \"I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of Egypt.\" The bondage and Exodus are in fact quoted in connection with thirty-six commandments of the Tora and an additional thirty-one enactments make passing reference to it. Thus reflecting its importance to the historical consciousness of our people as an event woven into its very fabric and not as an isolated incident for \"and they will know that I am YHWH their God, who brought them out from the Land of Misrayim [Egypt].\" (Ex. 29:46)<a></a><a href=\"http://rekhavi.karaitejudaism.org/passover.shtml#_edn1\">[1]</a> The memory of past oppression was not to be forgotten, but to be recalled in all our dealings with our fellow man, to stand as a marker against oppression and the perversion of justice, the Egyptian bondage is cited as the prototype of human degradation: \"A sojourner you shall not maltreat and you shall not oppress him, for sojourners were you in the Land of Misrayim [Egypt].\" (Ex. 22:20) YHWH created mankind with freedom of choice, the free will to choose the good and reject the evil. To deny one this ability by subjecting them to subservience to a mortal is a crime against them and against YHWH who fashioned them. The equality of rights and privileges due to every member of society can therefore be seen as the very foundation of the Tora.</p><p><span></span></p><p>The Zionist dream is, in the words of David Ben-Gurion, to make us like other nations, the exact opposite of that which YHWH intended's for us, \"And you shall be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.\" (Ex. 19:6), \"Holy you shall be, because holy am I, YHWH your God.\" (Lev. 19:2) By the blatant disregard of the commandments for whose fulfillment Israel was chosen, by the misrepresentation of the teachings of the Tora, by the display of such conduct as will bring YHWH's association with Israel into disrepute, the God of history is defamed and the purpose of Israel's redemption is nullified. \"And YHWH spoke to Moshe saying: Speak to the Children of Yisrael, and say to them, I am YHWH your God. What is done in the Land of Misrayim [Egypt], wherein you were settled, you shall not do, and what is done in the land of Kena'an [Canaan], to which I am bringing you, you shall not do, and in their laws you shall not walk. My judgements you shall do, and my laws you shall keep to walk in them, I am YHWH your God. And you shall keep my laws and my judgements, which when a human does them, he lives by them, I am YHWH.\" (Lev. 18:1-5) We are YHWH's servants and not the servants of man-made laws.</p><p><span></span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "By Hakham Meir Yosef Rekhavi http://rekhavi.karaitejudaism.org/passover.shtml", "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": 238, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Passover: Our True Independence Day | Passover haggadah by Avraham Schutte", "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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