{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "matzah-29", "title": "Matzah", "author": "Jake Goodman", "author_handle": "chickencool36077522", "author_initials": "JG", "covertext": "Techie instructions continued: Carefully release the bottom matzah. Recite the blessing on the remaining whole matzah an...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Techie instructions continued: Carefully release the bottom matzah. Recite the blessing on the remaining whole matzah and the broken matzah: \"Blessed be You, L-rd our G-d, King of the World, Who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning eating matzah.\" Break off a piece from each of the two matzos for yourself and for each of those sitting at your table. Pass them around. What we're doing is covering both our bases, ensuring that we experience both the poverty and humility that matzah represents (the broken matzah) and the freedom and healing it brings (the whole matzah). Supplement the two pieces of matzah from the Seder Plate with more matzah, so that everybody gets at least 2 oz. of matzah altogether (about two thirds of a large shemura matzah.) Hey, it’s a mitzvah after all! Don’t forget to recline to the left while you munch—just like with the wine. Soul Since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, matzah is the only opportunity we have to actually eat a mitzvah. That’s right, the matzah you are eating is pure G-dliness. In fact, it has enough G-dly energy to blast your soul out of the deepest ditch into the highest heights. The Zohar calls matzah “Bread of Faith” and “Bread of Healing”. Did I say “faith?” Well, actually, that’s a rather feeble translation. “Emunah” is the word in Hebrew, and it means a lot more than “I believe, brother!” Faith can often be something people rely upon when they don’t care to think too much. Emunah is when you go beyond thinking and you get somewhere your mind could have never brought you to. Emunah is when you touch that place where your soul and the essence of the Infinite Light are one. It’s a point that nothing can describe. Where there are no words, no doubts, no uncertainty, no confusion—nothing else but a magnificent oneness before which all the challenges of life vanish like a puff of vapor. Eating matzah is a means of plugging your entire self into that reservoir. Your physical body digests the Emunah of your soul, everything is integrated back into one, your body and spirit are whole and harmonious. How on earth, you may ask, can a mixture of water and wheat from the ground baked in an oven contain a spiritual cure? Well, welcome to the Jewish People, where there is no dichotomy of spirit and matter, soul and body. Where the spiritual transforms into physicality and material objects rise to become spiritual in a perpetual chemistry of exchange. Where bodies are healed by empowering the soul and souls are nourished by the rituals of the body. After all, we live in the world of a single G-d.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 195, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Matzah | Passover haggadah by Jake Goodman", "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/matzah-29", "og:title": "Matzah | Passover haggadah by Jake Goodman", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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You could leave the table to go to the kitchen.</p>\n\n<p>What? We just sat down and now we have to get up and leave already? Well, that’s a fairly normal migration pattern for Jews.</p>\n\n<p>On the other hand, you could bring a basin and towel to the table.</p>\n\n<p>Pour the water to cover your right hand. Repeat. Repeat again. Ditto for your left hand.</p>\n\n<p>That’s how the kohanim (\"priests\") did it when they entered the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.</p>\n\n<p>Dry hands.</p>\n\n<p>Usually, we would recite a blessing at this point. When we wash the second time before eating the matzah, we’ll say it then. But not now.</p>\n\n<p>Our hands are the primary tools to interact with our environment. They generally obey our emotions: Love, fear, compassion, the urge to win, to be appreciated, to express ourselves, to dominate. Our emotions, in turn, reflect our mental state.</p>\n\n<p>But, too often, each faculty of our psyche sits in its cell, exiled from one another. The mind sees one way, the heart feels another and our interface with the world ends up one messy tzimmes.</p>\n\n<p>Water represents the healing power of wisdom. Water flows downward, carrying its essential simplicity to each thing. It brings them together as a single living, growing whole. 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Why just this little itty-bitty piece of vegetable?” -- then you know you’re doing things right. What do you answer them? You say, “We're doing this so you will ask questions.” And if they say, “So what’s the answer?” -- just repeat, as above. That’s the best answer. Because you can’t learn if you don’t ask questions. And the first thing to learn is that not all questions have answers. That’s a distinctive mark of Jewish education: More than we teach our children how to answer, we teach them how to ask -- and how to be patient in their search for answers. Dip it into saltwater. Like our earlier reclining with our cup of wine, we're engaging in a display of expansiveness and sovereignty, mimicking the custom of nobility and hoity-toity folk to precede their meals with an bite of appetizer dipped in a dip. Also: karpas (the Hebrew word for \"greens\" and \"vegetable\") read backwards forms an acronym of a phrase meaning \"600,000 [were enslaved with] spirit-breaking labor,\" and the saltwater in which it is dipped are the tears they shed. This duality will repeat itself throughout to Seder. Telling the story of the Exodus means reliving how things were before (slavery and suffering) and what was achieved (freedom). We'll drink wine (joy, liberty) and we'll eat the maror (bitterness, slavery). At times, the same food or ritual will embody both aspects. Say the blessing for vegetables (\"Borei Pri Haadamah\"), and have in mind also the \"bitter herbs\" we'll be eating later. Munch it down. Munch good. You’re not going to get much more for a while. Soul We need to re-taste the breaking labor of Egypt to liberate ourselves from it once again. It was this labor that prepared us for freedom. It was this labor that gave us a humble spirit to accept wisdom. Today, as well, you can choose to achieve this humble spirit by enduring the battle to survive the rat race. There will be plenty of futile, hamster-wheel tasks to bring you to your knees. Or you could choose another path: achieving true humility with the realization of just how small we earthly creatures are. That will free you from the need to experience materialistic futility. Choose your battle. 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According to Kabbalah, the world is created through five contractions of light. Hide the package until the end of the Seder when it will be eaten as the Afikoman, or dessert (step #12). In many houses, the children hide the afikoman and the adults have to find it at the end of the meal. In others, the adults hide it and the children find it. Either way, it keeps the kids up and in suspense until the end of the meal. Many Sephardic Jews have the tradition of tying the afikoman under the arms of the children, who carry it like that all night, just like when we left Egypt. Soul Why is there so much broken in this world? Why did the Cosmic Designer make a world where hearts break, lives shatter, beauty crumbles? A whole vessel can contain its measure, but a broken one can hold the Infinite. Matzah is called the poor man’s bread. He is low and broken. And it is this brokenness that allows him to open his soul and escape his Egypt. As long as we feel whole, there is no room left for us to grow. It is when we realize we are but a fragment, that we need the others around us, that so much of us is missing -- that is when miracles begin.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 198, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Yachatz | Passover haggadah by Jake Goodman", "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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(As for the meat and the potatoes your stomach is longing for, you can probably smell them simmering in the kitchen. Hold on, we’ll get there.) Fill the second cup of wine, following which the children ask the four questions. Of course, they can always ask more. No children? Let an adult ask. There’s just you? You be the child, and G-d will be the father. While you’re at it, ask Him a few other difficult questions for us all. Continue with the telling of the story, as written in your Haggadah. Hey, you’re not limited to the Haggadah’s version! That was written so that everybody would have something to say. But now is your chance to get creative. Tell every story you know about the exodus. Examine every word of the Haggadah and get into the deeper meaning. Keep it real, make it profound. Here's a basic summery of what we'll be talking about: The Haggadah is two narratives bundled together, each of which (like any good story) has a distressing beginning and a happy ending. The central narrative is the story of the Exodus: how at first \"We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt\" and then \"G-d took us out with a Mighty Hand.\" The larger story is how \"In the beginning, our ancestors were idol-worshippers\" and then \"G-d brought us to Him, to His service.\" We'll trace the origins of the Jewish people starting with Abraham's rejection of his family's idolatry. We'll recount how the enslavement in Egypt -- but also the redemption and the \"great wealth\" that will be taken from there -- was foretold to Abraham at the \"Covenant Between the Pieces.\" We'll confirm that G-d's promise to Abraham has stood us by, not only in delivering us from Egypt but throughout Jewish history as \"in every generation, they pounce upon us to destroy us, but G-d saves us from their hands.\" We'll describe the terrible suffering of the Children of Israel in Egypt and the plagues brought upon the Egyptians. We'll sing of the fifteen great gifts G-d bestowed upon us, from the Exodus to the Splitting of the Sea to the Manna to the Giving of Torah to granting us the Holy Land and the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. We'll explain the significance of the Passover offering (in gratitude to G-d for passing over our homes when He smote the Egyptian firstborn), the matzah (\"because our fathers' dough did not have time to become leavened before G-d revealed Himself to them and redeemed them\") and the maror (the bitter herbs, which recall the bitterness of our exile and enslavement). We'll conclude with the first part of the Hallel (Psalms of praise) recited over the second cup of wine. Basic Rules of telling the story: · Get the children involved. · Tell it in first person, in the now. Don’t say, “Long ago, the ancient Hebrews…” Say, “When we were slaves in Egypt, the perverse socio-bureaucratic system thoroughly crushed every individual’s sense of self-worth!” Everything that happened there parallels something in each of our lives. We are truly living it now. We are simply examining our own lives in the dress of ancient Egypt. · It’s all about miracles. Moses and his signs and wonders. The Ten Plagues. The splitting of the sea. All those miracles happened so that we would look at the events of our daily life and recognize that these too are miracles. Tell it like it is: We are a people born of miracles. We endured by miracles. The very fact that we are here now telling this same story to our children in an unbroken chain of 3,316 years is an abrogation of natural law. We drink the second cup at the end of this step. Soul The exodus was not simply an event that happened to us. It is an event that we became. It is who we are. It is the life of each one of us, occurring again and again, in our wrestling match with the world, in our struggle with our own selves. We embody freedom in a constant mode of escape. Perhaps that is why Jews have always been the rebels of society, the ones who think out of the box. The experience of leaving Egypt left such an indelible mark on our souls, we never stopped doing it. A Jew who has stopped exiting Egypt has ceased to allow his soul to breathe. To tell the story is to bring that essential self into the open, to come face to face with who we really are and resuscitate it back to life. 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Anyways, it's good to get up and stretch a little, right?</p>\n\n<p>Pour the water to cover your right hand. Repeat. Repeat again. Ditto for your left hand.</p>\n\n<p>Say the blessing. \"Blessed be You, L-rd our G-d, King of the World, Who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the washing of the hands.\"</p>\n\n<p>Dry your hands.</p>\n\n<p>As long as we live in this world, freedom remains elusive: While moving forward, we are free. Stop, and we are bound and fettered again.</p>\n\n<p>That is why freedom is something you cannot buy nor steal. Never can you put freedom in your purse and say, “Freedom is mine forever!”</p>\n\n<p>For freedom is a marriage: Freedom is the bond our finite selves with the Infinite, the power to transcend the world while working inside it. It is a marriage of heaven and earth, spirit and matter, soul and body. And like any marriage, it is kept alive only by constant renewal. 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That's why we have three matzahs on our Seder plate -- so that in addition to the \"piece\" of matzah over which we tell the story of the Exodus, we'll have two whole matzahs over which to pronounce the \"Hamotzi\" blessing, praising and thanking G-d \"Who brings bread from the earth.\"</p>\n\n<p>Grab all three matzahs—the top one, the broken middle one and the bottom one—and pick them up a little.</p>\n\n<p>Say the blessing: \"Blessed be You, L-rd our G-d, King of the World, Who brings bread out of the earth\"</p>\n\n<p>Hold on… more techie instructions to follow in the next step.</p>\n\n<p>Soul<br />\nWe feel an affinity with the food we eat: We too are a miracle out of the earth.</p>\n\n<p>We and the bread share a common journey. The bread begins as a seed buried beneath the ground. And then, a miracle occurs: As it decomposes and loses its original form, it comes alive, begins to grow sprout and grow. 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