Marxist Maror

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We dip maror into charoset in order to associate the bitterness of slavery with the work that caused so much of this bitterness.\n\nScholars inform us that bitter herbs were eaten at the Spring festival in ancient times. The sharpness of the taste awakened the senses and made the people feel at one with nature’s revival.Maror is the moment of quantity turning into quality, when the accumulated horrors of capitalism crystalize and the working class awakens to the need for a new reality, for socialism.\n\nAs we bite into the maror let the bitterness of our toil under capitalism transform into a toil for the liberation of the working class from the chains of capitalism.\n\n Ba-ruch a-tah A-do-nai, E-lo-hey-nu Me-lech ha-o-lam, A-sher ki-d’-sha-nu b’-mitz-vo-tav, v’-tzi-va-nu Al a-chilat ma-ror. \n\nBlessed are you, Power of the universe, who makes us holy through your commandments, and commands us to eat Maror.\n\n Sources \n\n<a href=\"http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover/The_Seder/Seder_Plate_and_Table.shtml\">http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover/The_Seder/Seder_Plate_and_Table.shtml</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.eszter.com/Haggadah.pdf\">http://www.eszter.com/Haggadah.pdf</a>\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": "Maror", "slug": "maror" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 277, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Marxist Maror | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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The first documented evidence of parts of the Haggadah is found in the Mishnah (edited ca. 200 CE). The arrangement of the table, the psalms, benedictions, and other recited matter of today coincide substantially with the program laid down in the Mishnah. Midrashim (commentaries) were added and most of the version we now have was completed by the end of the Talmudic period (500-600 CE). 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We all are engaged in struggle, personally, in this country, and internationally.\n\nWe dedicate this first cup of wine to the workers around the world who have taken the streets, the buildings, the cities in protest of an economic system that oppresses us, starves us, keeps us unemployed and uninformed.\n\nTonight we come together to recount the story of the Exodus, the first example in the Jewish tradition of workers taking a stand against their oppressors and walking out to create a new society to free them from oppression. 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As Marxists, this means fitting a God concept within dialectical and historical materialism, a project I've been engaged in for quite some time.\n\nThe Hebrew word to pray, lehitpalel, is actually a reflexive verb meaning to think about oneself or reflect upon oneself. As a dialectical materialists I do not believe in a higher or greater power outside humanity and the material reality. What I do believe in, what I have felt and experienced over and over, is the power of human community and solidarity to enact change in our world. When we pray we give ourselves the opportunity to reflect on the positive things we have in our world and the negative things that we need to continue to fight against.\n\nWe can connect with history and community through prayer, saying the words that have been said for thousands of years but which are given new meanings by each generation. We can say prayers and sing them, we can think them and feel them. We can act our prayer in our kindnesses and political activities. There is an opportunity in each thing that we do to open our eyes and expand our consciousness of all the human and natural processes going on around us. And with this awareness we can change the world.\n\nThe Passover seder contains many powerful symbols and teachings about liberation, social and political change, and bringing together communities. 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Blessings over wine, called kiddush from the...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "We start the seder with the blessing over the first of four cups of wine. Blessings over wine, called kiddush from the Hebrew word meaning holy, set aside, or marked off, are a fixture of Jewish tradition and usually mark the beginning of holidays and celebrations. Wine has been a part of many different religious observances since biblical times, and by saying a special prayer over the wine we are marking off our activities of before the holiday from those inside. Kiddush demarcates holy time, so we start our seder with this blessing.\n\nAs Marxists, we can use the ritual observance of Kiddush as a way to bring attention to and elevate issues we simply accept in our day to day lives. 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This time, we wash without reciting a blessing. The absence of a blessing here acknowledges that the custom of washing one’s hands before eating vegetables, while once a part of Jewish ritual, is no longer practiced. This hand-washing is a vestige of that custom. 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Karpas represents the initial flourishing of the Israelites during the first years in Egypt. At the end of the biblical book of Genesis, Joseph moves his family to Egypt, where he becomes the second-in-command to Pharaoh. Protected by Joseph’s exalted status, the family lives safely for several generations and proliferate greatly, becoming a great nation. The size of this growing population frightens the new Pharaoh, who enslaves the Israelites, lest they make war on Egypt. Even under slave conditions, the Israelites continue to reproduce, and Pharaoh eventually decrees that all baby boys be killed.\n\nEating karpas as the third step links our practice todayto ancient history. During the time of the temple,all formal dinners began with an appetizer. Karpas serves as an appetizer, to activate our hunger literally and figuratively for the rest of the seder.\n\nIn the course of the seder, we dip the karpas in salt water (Ashkenazi custom) or vinegar (Sephardi custom) in order to taste both the hope of new birth and the tears that the Israelite slaves shed over their condition.\n\nKarpas also symbolizes the new spring. 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At some seders an...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "Next we break middle of the three matzahs and lay aside the larger piece to be hidden as the afikomen. At some seders an adult hides the afikomen for the children to find, at other the children hide the afikomen and the adults try to find it. Either way the children end up with some sort of prize, which keeps them engaged and awake through what can be a long and boring ceremony. Even at seders without children present, having one person hide the afikomen for the rest to find can be a fun change from our sitting and talking.\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": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 163, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Breaking the Middle Matzah | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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One question is why do we break the matzah now when i...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "There are many explanations for the breaking of the middle matzah. One question is why do we break the matzah now when it is not needed until later in the ceremony?\n\nBecause a key to freedom is to anticipate the future and make it real. We cannot move forward with our project of revolution if we stay only in the mindset of our current crisis. Many people who call themselves Marxists are stuck in the pessimism of the day. But armed with the lessons of history and dialectical materialist analysis, we understand that the working class can and will unite to rise up against capitalism. We need to prepare now, before the uprising, to be the leadership from within the working class. We learn in the story of Passover that Moses and Aaron prepared and secured their leadership long before the people rose up to leave. So too must we build our authority in our time.\n\nThe broken middle matzah also represents all those separated from their families or communities, from the Jews expelled from Jerusalem by the Romans to the Native Americans sent to reservations and enslaved, to the millions living in refugee camps around the world and the Palestinians removed from their homes. We cannot conclude the seder without the broken piece being found, and we cannot have true liberation until all those who are separated are given the freedom to cross borders and reunite with those they love.\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "http://jcua.org/document.doc?id=10", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 201, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Symbolism of the Middle Matzah | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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 three main components of Maggid:\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>Four Questions - traditionally said by the youngest child present</li>\n\t<li>Four Children -commentary on the four types of approaches to the questions</li>\n\t<li>Telling of the Exodus story including our ancestors slavery in Egypt</li>\n</ul>\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": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 221, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "And You Shall Tell Them On This Night... | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "second-cup-freedom-oppression", "title": "Second Cup for Freedom from Oppression", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "The second cup of wine is dedicated to all those struggling for freedom today, struggling to be freed from economic oppr...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "The second cup of wine is dedicated to all those struggling for freedom today, struggling to be freed from economic oppression, psychological imprisonment, and debt bondage. The Israelites of the Exodus story were not captured from foreign lands and maintained as possessions as the slaves of the 19th century, but were forced through economic and social necessity to work against their will, or face starvation and death.\n\nSo too is the face of human trafficking today. An estimated 21 to 36 million people are enslaved around the world today, the majority working in labor-intensive industries like food production and brick making. While some slaves are captured or tricked into slavery through false contracts, others are given loans they are expected to work off, with interest accumulation that makes it impossible to leave. Slaves are profitable and plentiful workers, especially in places where the population growth outstrips the jobs available, such as in under-industrialized parts of the world.\n\nWithout capitalism there would be no slavery. When the workers collectively own and control the means of production we can have full employment with fair compensation, and there will be no issues of uneven development. Socialism is the answer to the crisis of capitalism and it is the answer to ending enslavement.\n\nLet the second cup stand for this struggle.\n\n Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech Haolam, borei p'ri hagafen. \n\nBlessed are you, Sprit of the universe, who makes the fruit of the vine.\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "http://www.freetheslaves.net/about-slavery/slavery-today/", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 239, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Second Cup for Freedom from Oppression | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/second-cup-freedom-oppression", "og:title": "Second Cup for Freedom from Oppression | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "four-children-marxist-approach", "title": "The Four Children - A Marxist Approach", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "At Passover each year, we read the story of our ancestors’ pursuit of liberation from oppression. When confronting this...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "At Passover each year, we read the story of our ancestors’ pursuit of liberation from oppression. When confronting this history, how do we answer our children or our contacts when they ask us how to pursue justice in our time?\n\nWHAT DOES THE REVOLUTIONARY CHILD ASK?\n\n“The Torah tells me, ‘Justice, justice you shall pursue,’ but how can I pursue justice?”\n\nEmpower him 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.”\n\nGive him readings, invite him to protests and public speeches, and encourage him to learn and to build the revolutionary organization.\n\nWHAT DOES THE SKEPTICAL CHILD ASK?\n\n“How can I solve problems of such enormity?”\n\nEncourage her by explaining that she need not solve the problems, she must only do what she is capable of doing. As we read in Pirke Avot, “It is not your responsibility to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.”\n\nShow her the long history of class struggle, the consistency of the working class rising up against the capitalist class and the few examples of success. Let her read about the Russian revolution and see the most backwards capitalist country in its time turn into the most progressive in just a few weeks of socialism. These examples are our guide.\n\nWHAT DOES THE INDIFFERENT CHILD SAY?\n\n“It’s not my responsibility.”\n\nPersuade him 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.”\n\nShow how capitalism is destroying the earth so that none of us can live on it. Show how crisis affects people of all classes, not just the most oppressed. Finally, show how the failure to build leadership leads to confusion at best, and bloody reaction at worst.\n\nAND THE UNINFORMED CHILD WHO DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO ASK...\n\nPrompt her to see herself as an inheritor of our people’s legacy. As it says in Deuteronomy, “You must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”\n\nTell her about the infinite possibilities of socialism, the promises of the transitional program, and the joyous future we can build under socialism.\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from http://www.haggadot.com/clip/four-children-ajws", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Children", "slug": "four-children" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 365, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Four Children - A Marxist Approach | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "marxist-four-questions", "title": "Marxist Four Questions", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "The traditional four questions ask about the symbols of the seder: why do we eat matzah, why do we eat bitter herbs, why...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "The traditional four questions ask about the symbols of the seder: why do we eat matzah, why do we eat bitter herbs, why do we lean. But these are not all the symbols we can inquire about.\n\n1. On all other nights we each eat off our own plate. Why on this night do we have one communal seder plate?\n\n2. On all other nights we talk freely at the table. Why on this night do we have a discussion led by the haggadah?\n\n3. On all other nights we eat alone, or with immediate family. Why on this night do we eat with a community?\n\n4. On all other nights we tell stories from our day. Why on this night do we tell stories from an ancient, mythical past?\n\nAnd the answers:\n\n1. The seder plate: The original Seder had a definite Greco-Roman and Middle Eastern flavor, most notably a Greek style of dining with the participants actually reclining on low couches, pillows, or carpets around a central location. The various Seder items were placed on several low tables, which were carried in and out of the room at designated points in the ceremony and placed in front of the Seder leader. This practice is maintained today by many Yemenites and other Eastern Jews. A problem emerged in Europe, however, where during the early medieval period the practice developed to dine around a single large table while seated upright in chairs. At first, instead of bringing in and out the small tables, the various Seder items were merely arranged in a large wicker basket (around 1000 CE) and then later on a large platter, which could be moved at appropriate times. Eventually, craftsmen created a special plate (ke’arah) to hold the traditional foods. Whereas the original moveable tables contained all of the items to be consumed at the Seder, this was impractical for the relatively small Seder plate. Therefore, the custom developed among Sephardim and Ashkenazim (but not Mizrachim) of only putting a symbolic amount of food on the Seder plate and separately serving the bulk of it. In the 16th century, Italian Jews and Sephardim began making artistic Seder plates from brass, porcelain, and wood, a practice later adopted by Ashkenazim as well.\n\n2. Haggadah: The word Haggadah comes from the Torah command - \"And you shall tell ( v'Higadeta ) your children on that day...\" It is believed that the obligation to tell the story of the Exodus was observed by Jews' ancestors ever since the actual Exodus itself. The scriptural command (Exodus 13:8) to tell the story of the exodus to our children is interpreted as a positive commandment. The creation of the haggadah happened over hundreds of years, with different components of ritual and story telling added by different scholars. We use the haggadah as a guide to the stories of our past as well as revaluing the symbols and traditions of Passover to be relevant to us in our time. We don't believe in any supernatural or external power to ourselves, so the power of the seder is what it evokes in us, not gathering mitzvah points to be tabulated in the afterlife.\n\n3. Community: The Exodus from Egypt is the first experience of the Israelites as a distinct people from those around them. Interestingly, not only the \"pure\" Israelites, those descended from Joseph, came out of Egypt but an assorted group of people captured by war or imperial expansion who were inspired by the revolutionary fervor and decided to join in the revolt. The story of the exodus has been inspirational throughout the generations and for many more people than just the Jews! We want to invite as many people as possible to share in our vision of liberation so we can act collectively to bring about our freedom.\n\n4. Ancient past: We view the stories of the Torah not as literal truth or lived history, but as mythical stories that our ancestors created to explain their origins as a people. Still, these stories have incredibly powerful messages that Jews have studied and revalued throughout the centuries. In our lives we often talk about what is happening here and now, and we live with our heads in the present and future, but we rarely get a chance to suspend our thoughts in our current time and look far back into the past. By reading and discussing ancient mythic stories we can learn about the societies of our ancestors and their worldview, and we can also gain insight into the universalities of human experience that have carried through subsequent modes of production. We see that the struggle between rich and poor, worker and owner is the same struggle we face today, and just as our ancestors had to escape and transform their society, so too must we.\n\n Sources \n\n<a href=\"http://ohr.edu/835\">http://ohr.edu/835</a>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.emunah.org/magazine_detail.php?id=101\">https://www.emunah.org/magazine_detail.php?id=101</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover/The_Seder.shtml\">http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover/The_Seder.shtml</a>\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": "-- Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 235, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Marxist Four Questions | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/marxist-four-questions", "og:title": "Marxist Four Questions | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "kashrut-working-conditions", "title": "Kashrut of Working Conditions", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "It was practice of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak each Passover to supervise the bakeries of Berditchev. In addition to the kashrut...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "It was practice of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak each Passover to supervise the bakeries of Berditchev. In addition to the kashrut of the matzot, he was concerned with the working conditions of the women and children employees. One year, observing that they were being exploited, being forced to work from early morning until late at night, he approached the bakery owner. “Our enemies used to cause great consternation among our people,“ he said, “charging that we use non-Jewish blood to bake our matzah. Today, however, God knows and you know as well that this is a foolish lie. But among our many sins, I see that there are Jewish bakers who prepare their matzah with Jewish blood, with the blood of the poor Jewish women and children from whom, unfortunately, they squeeze out the last bit of strength.”\n\nAs we eat this matzah, the bread of affliction, we remember the conditions of the unseen workers who help to bring us food. We follow in the example of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev and acknowledge that the kashrut of our food also depends on the conditions of the workers who make it for us.\n\nLet us commit ourselves to ending this barbaric economic system of capitalism that continues to enslave workers around the world.\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech haolam, Hamotzi lechem min haaretz. \n\nBlessed are you, Spirit of the Universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "http://uuja.org/holidays/lit/Economic_Justice_haggadah.pdf", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 231, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Kashrut of Working Conditions | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/kashrut-working-conditions", "og:title": "Kashrut of Working Conditions | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "explaining-motzi-matzah", "title": "Explaining Motzi-Matzah", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "Now we share the matzah around the table. The matzah is called the bread of affliction, representative of the meager foo...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "Now we share the matzah around the table. The matzah is called the bread of affliction, representative of the meager food given to slaves. It also represents freedom, as the midrash about the exodus explains, the Israelites had to leave Egypt quickly once they were given permission, and in ancient times bread rose by collecting the naturally-occurring yeast in the air. However this took a very long time, so the Israelites simply took their dough without letting it rise and baked it in the hot Egyptian sun. The result was a flat, cracker-like bread, which is more or less the matzah we eat today.\n\nThe modern matzah owes its shape and cheap price to the ingenuity of Behr Manischewitz, a Lithuanian Jew who immigrated to Cincinnati in 1886. It's unclear why he and his family immigrated, possibly because the Cincinnati Jewish community needed a ritual slaughterer (shochet) and Behr was known as a respected shochet to some Jews in the US. Many shochets were also matzah bakers, including Behr's father, and Behr capitalized on the growth of the American Jewish communities by opening a matzah factory.\n\nMatzah had previously been baked in synagogue bakeries or contracted by synagogues to outside bakeries under rabbinical supervision, but as the communities in the US didn't revolve around a small number of shuls as in the Old Country, many of the tasks that had been communal and located in the shuls, such as kosher meat and mikvahs, were brought out of the synagogues and became independent entities. Matzah baking took the same route, and in the middle of the 19th century independent matzah bakers started to appear.\n\nHowever, maintaining kashrus in a bakery separate from the synagogue proved difficult. Matzah baking is a difficult and precise process, where there can only be 18 minutes between water and flour contact and the baking of the matzah, and no contaminants can be present. Several rabbis, including Manischewitz, went into the matzah baking business to counter this trend.\n\nThe biggest change in American matzah factories was the introduction of machines in the production process. There were many rabbinical debates over the halachic validity of using machines, a debate which continues to this day. The first machine was introduced to roll out the matzah, invented in 1838 by a French Jew named Isaac Singer. Manischewitz took the automation to the next level, using at least three different machines as part of the matzah making process: one that partially kneaded the dough, one that rolled it, and one that stretched the dough, perforated it, and cut it. Later he introduced a gas-fired matzah baking oven (which allowed for better and more even distribution and control of heat) and an enormously important (and patented) \"traveling-carrier bakeoven,\" a conveyor belt system that made it possible to automate the whole process of matzah baking: the dough was placed on one end and it slowly moved through the oven chambers emerging as evenly-baked identically shaped matzah on the other end.\n\nThese machines produced square, uniformly tasting matzahs that could be easily boxed and shipped with minimal breakage. Handmade matzah was and still is basically round, easily breakable, and largely variant from box to box. Manischewitz matzahs are much cheaper than handmade matzahs because there is less congealed labor time in each square, and while the traditional authorities may balk at the idea of an automated process different from the time-tested traditions, the automation of matzah making is an example of how introduction of mechanized production can increase yield and decrease fatigue and difficulty for workers. Rolling and kneading are labor intensive processes done by hand and time is lost when the workers have to carefully clean their hands and surfaces to avoid contamination. Neither of these are an issue with machine matzahs. With proper safety oversight and workers control we can make sure that the automation of production, already a significant change in how we produce commodities, can serve to relieve stress and worker hours needed to serve the entire working class, rather than making jobs precarious and inflating the profits of the capitalists.\n\n Sources \n\n<a href=\"http://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive/HowMatzahBecameSquare.pdf\">http://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive/HowMatzahBecameSquare.pdf</a>\n\nR. Amy Bernstein of Kehilat Israel Torah study class\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": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 218, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Explaining Motzi-Matzah | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/explaining-motzi-matzah", "og:title": "Explaining Motzi-Matzah | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "explaining-korech", "title": "Explaining Korech", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "In keeping with the custom instituted by Hillel, the great Talmudic sage, a sandwich of matzah and maror is eaten. Break...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "In keeping with the custom instituted by Hillel, the great Talmudic sage, a sandwich of matzah and maror is eaten. Break off two pieces of the bottom matzah, which together should be at least one ounce. Again, take at least one ounce of bitter herbs and dip them in the charoset. Place this between the two pieces of matzah and eat the sandwich while reclining.\n\nIn the days of the second temple in Jerusalem, Rabbi Hillel was a great teacher who would discuss the Passover story until the dawn of the next day. Once he was asked to teach the whole Torah while standing on one foot. Hillel said: “Do onto others as you would have them do unto you. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary. Now go and study.”\n\nDuring Passover, Hillel would eat a sandwich of the lamb offering plus matzah and maror, in order to perform the Law: “With unleavened bread and bitter herbs shall they eat it.” Since we no longer make sacrifices at the Temple, the tradition has changed to eating a Hillel sandwich of matzah, maror and charoset.\n\nRabbi Levi reminds us that while the men toiled at making bricks without straw, the women never lost hope. They brought food and water to the fields, and encouraged the men to have sex with them, so as to bring the next generation into the world. R. Levi suggests that the sweetness of charoset is about the Jewish women’s way of relating to slavery and the slaves. True, the enslavement was bitter, both physically brutal and psychologically degrading, but the Jewish women didn’t lose hope. They helped maintain the dignity of their husbands, and raised a new generation of Jewish children.\n\nRav Kook, the first chief rabbi of Israel, taught that the Hillel sandwich represents bringing together the symbolic messages of the matzah and the marror. The sages disputed the validity of such bundling together of mitzvahs, because they didn't want to make it seem like the mitzvot are a burden. But for Hillel, the bitterness of slavery embodied in the maror is combined with the freedom of matzah prepared as we left Egypt represents the \"yoke of heaven,\" where one commits doggedly as a slave to the service of God and thus uncovers an even greater spiritual freedom.\n\nFor us, the contradiction of the slavery of maror and the freedom of matzah represents the transitional period we face after a revolution and before the establishment of socialism. We are weighed down by the consciousness of the oppressed hammered into us throughout our lives in capitalism, and we have to grapple with this just as we grapple with transforming a degenerate economic system into a prospering one. Just as the generation who left Egypt in the exodus could not go into the land of Israel, so too will the generation who carry out the revolution not be the ones to fully bring socialism into being. We will toil for its establishment with all our hearts and abilities, but we cannot undo the decades of internalized messages of unworthiness. It is for our children to bring us to our promised land, the spread of socialism around the world.\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "http://sedersforyou.tripod.com/05.30th-seder.pdf, http://ravkooktorah.org/PESACH_68.htm", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Koreich", "slug": "koreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 412, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Explaining Korech | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "tzafun-afikomen-out-hiding", "title": "Tzafun - Afikomen out of hiding", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "After the meal, the half-matzah which had been “hidden,” set aside for the afikoman (“dessert”), is found and then eaten...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "After the meal, the half-matzah which had been “hidden,” set aside for the afikoman (“dessert”), is found and then eaten. Everyone should eat at least 1½ ounces of matzah, reclining, before midnight. After eating the afikoman, we do not eat or drink anything except for the two remaining cups of wine.\n\nWe read earlier in the seder about the afikomen and some of what it represents. Why do we save the afikomen for the end? We often say that socialism is international or it is nothing. We are obligated in the class struggle here in our own country, but that doesn't mean ignoring the class struggle that is carried out throughout the world. As Marx and Engels say in the Communist Manifesto, workers have no nation, and while the borders established by capitalism define political and economic challenges unique to each section of the proletariat, the system we are fighting is global and the capitalists are united internationally, so we must unite as well.\n\nWe eat the afikomen at the end of our seder because we know that the revolution will not be complete until each of the pieces of the world proletariat are united in struggle. As we eat the matzah that represents both our slavery and our liberation, let us bring together all the pieces of our international and the class struggle in our renewed efforts to bring freedom at last.\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": "Tzafun", "slug": "tzafun" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 266, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Tzafun - Afikomen out of hiding | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "miriam-and-elijahs-cups", "title": "Miriam and Elijah's Cups", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "It is customary to fill a cup of wine for the prophet Elijah, who in messianic literature will announce the coming of th...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "It is customary to fill a cup of wine for the prophet Elijah, who in messianic literature will announce the coming of the messiah so we open the door for him to enter and usher in an age of peace and harmony.\n\nAt our seder we have two cups at the center. One is for Elijah, and the other for Miriam. Miriam's cup is filled with water, to remember the well that followed Miriam through the desert after crossing the Red Sea and keeping the Israelites from dying of thirst. Miriam represents the long history of women's contributions to Judaism and to the world that are often overshadowed or silenced in favor of the stories of men. There are many midrashic examples of women's leadership, from the women marching forward into the Red Sea to make the waters part to the women refusing to take part in the creation of the golden calf. These are stories that don't make it into the final editing of the Bible, but are added later as the rabbis felt them to be important.\n\nIn our lives we seek to bring forward those stories of women's leadership: the International Women's Day strike that launched the Russian Revolution, the brilliance of Rosa Luxembourg and contributions of Nadezhda Krupskaya, and the many strikes led and carried out by women workers. Those are the stories not as often told, but as essential to our struggle against capitalism as the stories of male workers. We must put those stories on the table, open our Marxist agitation to women who often get marginalized in our ranks, and fight for the liberation of all people.\n\nWe cannot have sexism and patriarchy without class society. Let Miriam stand as the prophet of true equality and freedom for all.\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": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 237, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Miriam and Elijah's Cups | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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We recognize all the things that God gave the Israelites...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "Singing Dayenu is a much loved tradition at the Passover seder. We recognize all the things that God gave the Israelites throughout their exodus and journey in the desert, and respond with the phrase \"Dayenu - it would have sufficed us.\" But even without a supernatural God we can still sing Dayenu honestly.\n\nPart 1: Appreciate what do you have\n\nDayenu is a song all about appreciating what we have and what we’ve been given. In this time of economic and social crisis it is easy to get lost in the great lists of things we don’t have, and the demands we are always fighting for, but we cannot just be pessimists and self-pittiers. Rather, we should take stock of what we do have and really appreciate those gifts.\n\nIf I only had one cat instead of two, dayenu! \nIf I had a house and not a car, dayenu! \nIf I had a job but was not in school, dayenu!\n\nPart 2: Fight for what we still need\n\nThe original text of the song goes through the story of the exodus and after each step says “danyenu,” it would have sufficed.\n\n English Translation: \n\nIf He had brought us out of Egypt buthadn’t executed justice upon the Egyptians, dayenu \nIf He had executed justice upon the Egyptians buthadn’t executed justice upon their gods, dayenu \nIf He had executed justice upon their gods but hadn’t slain their first-born, dayenu\n\nAs we move through the story, we start to realize that, as up-beat as the song is, we in fact would not have sufficed with only half the exodus. Particularly the middle five stanzas:\n\n6) If He had split the sea for us. \n7) If He had led us through on dry land. \n8) If He had drowned our oppressors. \n9) If He had provided for our needs in the wilderness for 40 years. \n10) If He had fed us manna.\n\nIf God had split the sea but not led us through on dry land, we would have drowned. If God had led us through on dry land but not drowned our oppressors, they would have killed us. If God drowned our oppressors but not provided for our needs in the wilderness for 40 years, we would have starved, dyed of thirst, and/or gone insane.\n\nSo why do we say “dayenu” after each line? Because I would argue we are not just saying it would have been enough in general, but it would have been enough for God godself to stop with half the miracle and we could have figured it out ourselves. If God had split the sea but not led us through on dry land, we’d figure out how to swim. If God led us through on dry land but not drowned our oppressors, we could have fought our way to freedom. If God had drowned our oppressors we could have scavenged for food. But without help we would lose members of our group to the tragedy.\n\nDayenu is a call to collective action. If we join together to fight for one piece of liberation, say a living wage or free health care, but we don’t continue to fight until we are freed from the deepest roots of our chains, the capitalist system, then some people will be able to make it but some will not, and they will be lost to us. Each reform we win through class struggle is a step in the right direction, but if we don’t continue to take steps forward until we dismantle the entire power structure of the capitalist class, we will never reach the promise land.\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": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 262, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Two Approaches to Dayenu | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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The third cup is dedicated to remembering those who died in the...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "Now we fill our own glasses with winefor the third time. The third cup is dedicated to remembering those who died in the course of the struggle for revolution. Workers from all backgrounds and walks of life fought and died for the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War, the Spanish revolution, the Venezuelan revolution, the Haymarket Riot, and so many others. Some people see these sacrifices as revolutionary martyrdom and glorify the bloodshed. But we know socialism will not come on the backs of martyrs but through the struggle of the mass of workers living to build the new world.\n\nMost of the soldiers of the revolution did not join the barricades in order to give their lives for the revolution, but were willing to do so if the struggle failed. We remember their bravery, their hopes for success, their exuberance at victory, their optimism even in defeat. They fought to establish or keep working class control and to spread the inspiration of their struggle across the world. They fought even when the leadership failed them, even the heavy blows of counterrevolution gained the upper hand, even when the propaganda machines turned the world against them.\n\nLet their sacrifice inspire us to build our organization to greater heights and spread the future of socialism as far as possible. We the working class are the vast majority of people on earth, and we have the potential for bloodless revolution if we do not vacillate in our decisions. Let us remember the victories and defeats of revolutionary struggle throughout history and keep them near to us as a foundation for our progress today.\n\n Baruch atah adonai elohenu melech ha-olam, borei prei hagafen. \n\nBlessed are you, Sovereign of the universe, who gives us the fruit of the vine.\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": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 258, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Third Cup for Rememberance | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "fourth-cup-right-joy", "title": "Fourth Cup for a Right to Joy", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "The last of our four cups is dedicated to the right of every human being to enjoy themselves and their lives fully, with...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "The last of our four cups is dedicated to the right of every human being to enjoy themselves and their lives fully, without fear of oppression, without constant worry about food security or how to pay the bills. We are incredibly alienated from ourselves and the people around us by the daily grind of living under capitalism. We don't have time to enjoy ourselves from the constant work, obligations, and sheer exhaustion. One of the best things about socialism is when the point of production is to fulfill the needs of the people, and not for accumulation of capital, we can have more people working fewer hours each, giving more time for everyone to enjoy themselves and find fulfillment and self-actualization in their lives. The flourishing of art and culture in the Soviet Union, especially in the 1920s, is a testament to the possibilities opened by free time. Think of the music that can be created, the plays that can be written, the inventions that can be discovered, the sleep that we've all been lacking for most of our lives, if only we didn't have to work so much. Not to mention the impact of mental illness triggered and deepened by stress and worry.\n\nWith this glass we commit to promoting the right to joy for every person, not just the tiny minority who don't have to work for a living. This is the beautiful future promised by socialism, and we are the agents to bring it into the world.\n\n Baruch atah adonai Elohenu melech ha-olam borei pri hagafen. \n\nBlessed are you, Sovereign of the universe, who gives us the fruit of the vine.\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": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 252, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Fourth Cup for a Right to Joy | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "hallelujah-1", "title": "Hallelujah", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music,...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "Now I've heard there was a secret chord \nThat David played, and it pleased the Lord \nBut you don't really care for music, do you? \nIt goes like this \nThe fourth, the fifth \nThe minor fall, the major lift \nThe baffled king composing Hallelujah \n \nHallelujah \nHallelujah \nHallelujah \nHallelujah \n \nYour faith was strong but you needed proof \nYou saw her bathing on the roof \nHer beauty and the moonlight overthrew you \nShe tied you to a kitchen chair \nShe broke your throne, and she cut your hair \nAnd from your lips she drew the Hallelujah \n \nHallelujah, Hallelujah \nHallelujah, Hallelujah\n\nBaby I've been here before \nI've seen this room and I've walked this floor (you know) \nI used to live alone before I knew you \nAnd I've seen your flag on the marble arch \nand love is not a victory march \nIt's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah \n \nHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah... \n \nthere was a time when you let me know \nWhat's really going on below \nBut now you never show that to me, do you? \nBut remember when I moved in you \nAnd the holy dove was moving too \nAnd every breath we drew was Hallelujah \n \nHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah... \n \nMaybe there's a God above \nBut all I've ever learned from love \nWas how to shoot somebody who outdrew you \nAnd it's not a cry that you hear at night \nIt's not somebody who's seen the light \nIt's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah \n \nHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah... \nHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah... \nHallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah \nHallelujah, hallelujah \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": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 270, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Hallelujah | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/hallelujah-1", "og:title": "Hallelujah | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "wade-water-0", "title": "Wade in the Water", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "By Eva Cassidy Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water God's gonna trouble the water Who's that...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "By Eva Cassidy\n\nWade in the water \nWade in the water, children \nWade in the water \nGod's gonna trouble the water\n\nWho's that yonder dressed in red? \nWade in the water \nMust be the children that Moses led \nAnd God's gonna trouble the water\n\nWade in the water \nWade in the water, children \nWade in the water \nGod's gonna trouble the water\n\nWho's that yonder dressed in white? \nWade in the water \nMust be the children of the Israelites \nGod's gonna trouble the water\n\nWade in the water \nWade in the water, children \nWade in the water \nGod's gonna trouble the water\n\nWho's that yonder dressed in blue? \nWade in the water \nMust be the children that's coming through \nGod's gonna trouble the water, yeah\n\nWade in the water \nWade in the water, children \nWade in the water \nAnd God's gonna trouble the water\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": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 268, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Wade in the Water | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "go-down-moses-27", "title": "Go Down Moses", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "Go down Moses way down in Egypt land Tell all Pharaohs to let My people go When Israel was in Egypt land Let My people g...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": "Go down Moses way down in Egypt land \nTell all Pharaohs to let My people go\n\nWhen Israel was in Egypt land \nLet My people go \nOppressed so hard they could not stand \nLet My people go\n\nSo the God seyeth, Go down, Moses way down in Egypt land \nTell all Pharaohs to let My people go\n\nSo Moses went to Egypt land \nLet My people go \nHe made all Pharaohs understand \nLet My people go\n\nYes The Lord said, Go down, Moses way down in Egypt land \nTell all Pharaohs to let My people go\n\nThus spoke the Lord, bold Moses said \nLet My people go \nIf not I'll smite, your firstborns dead \nLet My people go\n\nGod, The Lord said, Go down, Moses way down in Egypt land \nTell all Pharaohs to let My people go\n\nTell all Pharaohs to let My people go\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": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 267, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Go Down Moses | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/go-down-moses-27", "og:title": "Go Down Moses | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "quote-r-heschel", "title": "Quote from R. Heschel", "author": "Sebastian Greenholtz", "author_handle": "sebastian-greenholtz", "author_initials": "SG", "covertext": "\"Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, ha...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/conversions/profile577963432341010-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104351/profile577963432341010", "body": " \"Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.\" \n\n—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1970\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": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 255, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Quote from R. Heschel | Passover haggadah by Sebastian Greenholtz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/quote-r-heschel", "og:title": "Quote from R. 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Haggadah Section: Maror

Take at least one ounce of the bitter herbs. Dip it in the charoset, then shake the latter off.

This bitter herb allows us to taste the bitterness of slavery. Today, most Jews use horseradish as maror. Originally, though, maror was probably a bitter lettuce, such as romaine, or a root, such as chicory. Like life in Egypt, these lettuces and roots taste sweet when one first bites into them, but then become bitter as one eats more. We dip maror into charoset in order to associate the bitterness of slavery with the work that caused so much of this bitterness.

Scholars inform us that bitter herbs were eaten at the Spring festival in ancient times. The sharpness of the taste awakened the senses and made the people feel at one with nature’s revival.Maror is the moment of quantity turning into quality, when the accumulated horrors of capitalism crystalize and the working class awakens to the need for a new reality, for socialism.

As we bite into the maror let the bitterness of our toil under capitalism transform into a toil for the liberation of the working class from the chains of capitalism.

Ba-ruch a-tah A-do-nai, E-lo-hey-nu Me-lech ha-o-lam, A-sher ki-d’-sha-nu b’-mitz-vo-tav, v’-tzi-va-nu Al a-chilat ma-ror.

Blessed are you, Power of the universe, who makes us holy through your commandments, and commands us to eat Maror.

Sources

http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover/The_Seder/Seder_Plate_and_Table.shtml

http://www.eszter.com/Haggadah.pdf

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