{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "parallel-seder-plate", "title": "A Parallel Seder Plate", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "Here is an alternative Seder plate of symbols: A chili pepper in place of maror. A symbol of generations of hot and spic...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>Here is an alternative Seder plate of symbols:</p>\n\n<p>A chili pepper in place of maror. A symbol of generations of hot and spicy Jewish mothers and grandmothers who have taught us to approach life the way we eat a hot pepper: with humility.</p>\n\n<p>A pine cone in place of charoset. A symbol of the modern bondage of incarceration, as pine cones hide their nuts until we find a way to release them.</p>\n\n<p>An artichoke in place of karpas. A symbol of interfaith marriage, reminding us to peel away our protective and tough outer layers to find the soft heart within.</p>\n\n<p>A piece of dark bitter chocolate in place of chazeret. A symbol of the respect of free trade, and of adding sweetness to reform the bitter into something comforting.</p>\n\n<p>An olive branch in place of the z'roa. A symbol of actively seeking peace rather than waiting for it to pass over us.</p>\n\n<p>A pineapple in place of the beitzah. A symbol of leaving mitzrayim, working through the hard shell - mental or physical - to find the good within.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Alternative Seder plate ideas on Haggadot.com", "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": 227, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Parallel Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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 watched the terror attacks in horror, an...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>Last year Paris and Belgium. This year London, Stockholm and St. Petersburg. We watched the terror attacks in horror, and once again the calls go out for security and privacy tools that governments can abuse, under the banner of our safety. If we value our freedom, we must value our privacy and that of others as well, and we must protect the free development of science and math as they are the lenses into the practice of freedom and the freedom of practice. We cannot make science work \"only for the good guys.\"</p>\n\n<p>How are we supposed to digest the ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea at the same time we are sensitive to the denial of science? Former Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman offers a clue in a lecture at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: “We must avoid the suggestion that science and faith are mutually exclusive — they are different manifestations of the human experience.\" Science tells us the odds in life, and faith tells us to place the bet.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Shirley Tilghman, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Schneier", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 229, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Science and Faith | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "introduction-44-0", "title": "An Introduction in Musical Analog", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "The seder is divided into two halves - the story of our past redemption from bondage in Egypt, and the future redemption...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>The seder is divided into two halves - the story of our past redemption from bondage in Egypt, and the future redemption of our selves from \"spiritual hametz\" - arrogance, indulgence and selfishness.  The Seder is like a concert - a nicely composed first set, a break for a meal, a raucous second set and the encore in Jerusalem.</p>\n\n<p>The Haggadah speaks to us as children and as adults, before and after slavery, but it focuses on patterns of four - four cups of wine, four questions, four children, and four words - <strong>bring, deliver, redeem, take </strong>- to describe our physical and spiritual journey.  It is the most musical of our holidays, and the most subject to interpretation.</p>\n\n<p>The choices we make in our youth help mold who we become. Part of telling the Passover story is to ensure that our children use it as a guide to making good choices as they struggle with a generation of challenges.  </p>\n\n<p>Choose the introduction that seems so out of place. Choose a second hand guitar because it teaches you discipline. Choose your heroes' amazing tones in words and sounds. Choose wearing a cape, because it’s who you are. Choose staying out all night because life is lived out loud. Make the choices that bring, deliver, redeem and take us to a world free from all forms of bondage.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The \"Geulah Papyrus\", and adapted from Alex Lifeson’s induction of “Yes” into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; My Jewish Learning Passover themes", "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": 227, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "An Introduction in Musical Analog | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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 now break the middle matzah into two pieces. The host should wrap up the larger of the pieces and, at some point between now and the end of dinner, hide it. This piece is called the afikomen, literally “dessert” in Greek. After dinner, the guests will have to hunt for the afikomen in order to wrap up the meal… and win a prize.</p>\n\n<p>We eat matzah in memory of the quick flight of our ancestors from Egypt. As slaves, they had faced many false starts before finally being let go. So when the word of their freedom came, they took whatever dough they had and ran with it before it had the chance to rise, leaving it looking something like matzah.</p>\n\n<p>Uncover and hold up the three pieces of matzah and say:</p>\n\n<p>This is the bread of poverty which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. All who are hungry, come and eat; all who are needy, come and celebrate Passover with us. This year we are here; next year we will be in Israel. This year we are slaves; next year we will be free.</p>\n\n<p>This year, our matzah comes from Vermatzah and is \"eco Kosher\" - baked with a broader sense of “good practice” in everyday life that draws on the deep well-springs of Jewish wisdom and tradition about the relationships between human beings and the earth</p>\n\n<p>Our great uncle Ziemel Resnick shared a tent with David Ben Gurion in World War I. Years later, his seders in Asbury Park were the stuff of family legend, mildly terrifying to a six year old, where you would share the table with a 2nd cousin and a NJ state politician, not sure who was who. Once found, Uncle Ziemel fit the Afikomen back into the middle matzah, to show that it was in fact the missing piece, and he would say “Nothing that is broken off is lost as long as the children remember to search for it.” He knew the sacrifices that would be made to overcome the willful negligence of the British and the aggression of the Arab states to create an independent Israel. Uncle Ziemel’s searches included guns, ammunition, explosives, and parts for tanks and airplanes, funneled to the Haganah by way of secret meetings atop an Asbury Park ferris wheel. He remembered all of his fights for freedom, each and every Seder.</p>\n\n<p>Pesach leads us to look at things in before and after states - chametz and Kosher L'Pesach.  Slavery and freedom.  Winter and Spring. Before and after the meal.  The middle matzah and the afikomen.  For some of these, once the change occurs, there's no going back to the before state.  But what is kosher can be made trayfe; freedom can erode into different kinds of slavery.  Part of our figurative search must be to identify and then address the comfort and complacency that let us slide backwards.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Stuff of family legend, Vermatzah.com, Josh Fleet's \"Geulah Papyrus\"", "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": 240, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Uncle Ziemel's Afikomen | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "miriams-cup-91", "title": "Miriam's Cup", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "A decade after the introduction of an orange on the seder plate, the ritual of Miriam’s Cup emerged from a Rosh Chodesh...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>A decade after the introduction of an orange on the seder plate, the ritual of Miriam’s Cup emerged from a Rosh Chodesh group in Boston as another way to honor women during the seder. Miriam’s Cup builds upon the message of the orange, transforming our seder into an empowering and inclusive experience.</p>\n\n<p>We add a cup of water next to our Seder plate, to draw attention to the importance of Miriam and the other women of the Exodus story, women who have sometimes been overlooked but about whom our tradition says, \"If it wasn’t for the righteousness of women of that generation we would not have been redeemed from Egypt\" (Babylonian Talmud, <a href=\"http://www.sefaria.org/Sotah.9b?lang=he-en\">Sotah 9b</a>).</p>\n\n<p>Water played a role in Miriam’s life from the first time we meet her, watching over the infant Moses on the Nile, through her triumphant crossing of the Red Sea. The rabbis attribute to Miriam the well that traveled with the Israelites throughout their wandering in the desert. In the Book of Numbers, the well dries up immediately following Miriam’s death. She led the Israelites in song at the shores of the Red Sea, transforming what should have been a terrifying escape into a celebration of freedom.</p>\n\n<p>Miriam’s Cup is a symbol of all that sustains us through our own journeys, while Elijah’s Cup is a symbol of a future Messianic time.</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": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 217, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Miriam's Cup | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "why-new-haggadah", "title": "Why A New Haggadah", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "“Hagaddah” means “the telling.” Our friend Steve collects Haggadot, because each one tells the story a little differentl...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>“Hagaddah” means “the telling.”</p>\n\n<p>Our friend Steve collects Haggadot, because each one tells the story a little differently. The story is the same each year, but our context, our perspective, our emphasis is different, and that is the whole point of retelling the story.</p>\n\n<p>This has been a different year.  What will we tell about it in future years?  Mad Max style stories of social meltdown?  Stories of signs and wonders?   Each year we tell the story differently because we see ourselves differently. </p>\n\n<p>Previous Haggadot were shaped by a chance encounter with a Chabad rabbi in the parking lot of a Phish concert. From there it was on to Josh Fleet and his \"Geulah Papyrus\" Haggadah and to  Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater's \"Shir Ge'ulah\" Haggadah - the song of liberation.  It borrows from the \"JewBelong\" inclusive Haggadah.</p>\n\n<p>It is the sum of a year of changing, difficult, stressful view points, and a story of how we will find our way out -- a figurative Afikomen search.</p>\n\n<p>\"All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars\" -- Neil Peart</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Steve S, long time friend, Jane Leavy \"Last Boy\"", "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": 209, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why A New Haggadah | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "orange-seder-plate-38", "title": "Orange On The Seder Plate", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "In the early 1980s, Susanna Heschel was lecturing at Oberlin College Hillel and discovered a feminist themed Haggadah th...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>In the early 1980s, Susanna Heschel was lecturing at Oberlin College Hillel and discovered a feminist themed Haggadah that suggested putting a crust of bread on the Seder plate to represent groups that were marginalized in Judaism, especially women. Heschel changed that practice so that an orange would be used – not violating the rules of Passover, and to symbolize the fruitfulness of inclusion. Heschel adds that oranges have seeds so we remember to spit out hate, bigotry, and exclusion.</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": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 212, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Orange On The Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "plagues-privilege-and-science", "title": "Plagues, Privilege and Science", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "After nine plagues, it is likely the Egyptian food sources were teetering between inedible and inhumane: insects breedin...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>After nine plagues, it is likely the Egyptian food sources were teetering between inedible and inhumane: insects breeding disease, water damage leading to mold and rot, carcasses of dead animals taking their toll. What if the first born died because they ate first and the most among family members, and brought about their own deaths? Perhaps the 10th plague tells us about the dangers of privilege.</p>\n\n<p>John Scalzi defines privilege as \"playing the game of life on the lowest difficulty setting.\" If you're a cis white straight male, you play at \"easy\"; if you're a person of color, a woman, gay or trans, the difficulty goes up simply by showing up for life. Passover teaches us to remember that we were strangers in a strange land, and to remove privilege as we go forward.</p>\n\n<p>The plagues also show us a picture of increasing ecological disaster - a scientific admonition to literally \"repair the world\" through our actions.  How are we supposed to digest the ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea as miracles while also believing in the science of climate change and global ecology?  Former Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman offers a clue in a lecture at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: “We must avoid the suggestion that science and faith are mutually exclusive — they are different manifestations of the human experience.\" Science tells us the odds in life, and faith tells us to place the bet.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "John Scalzi whatever.scalzi.com, Shirley Tilghman lecture", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 221, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Plagues, Privilege and Science | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "moses-jam-session", "title": "Moses Jam Session", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "You've all been asleep, you would not believe me Them voices tellin' me, you will soon receive me Standin' on the beach,...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p> <em>You've all been asleep, you would not believe me<br />\nThem voices tellin' me, you will soon receive me<br />\nStandin' on the beach, the sea will part before me<br />\nFire wheel burning in the air! -Grateful Dead, \"Estimated Prophet\", lyrics by John Perry Barlow</em> </p>\n\n<p>John Perry Barlow died earlier this year, leaving behind a legacy of political writing that shapes our freedoms in the age of the Internet.</p>\n\n<p>While this song sounds a lot like Elijah, it's also a good description of Moses: the \"fire wheel burning in the air\" or the burning bush, the sea parting, the voices telling Moses to get the Israelites moving.</p>\n\n<p>Moses was not so much a prophet as a reluctant rock star with a message about freedom. He was, in modern terms, parts Bruce Springsteen, John Perry Barlow, and Bob Dylan.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "David Dodd, dead.net annotation; John Perry Barlow wikipedia page; Tom Chatt; Hal Stern", "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": 218, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Moses Jam Session | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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/moses-jam-session", "og:title": "Moses Jam Session | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "rachtzah-138", "title": "Rachtzah", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "“Mitzrayim,” Hebrew for Egypt, literally means narrow straits. Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more tha...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>“Mitzrayim,” Hebrew for Egypt, literally means narrow straits. Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more than the literal escape from slavery, more than an escape from a place of narrow straits, an obviously accurate physical description of Egypt, but metaphorically the leaving behind or “exodus” from a narrow place – the place that squeezes the life out of the human soul and body. Mitzrayim is viewed as an intrinsically constrictive state; a state where we are unable to express ourselves and be free, to be who we are as we seek to define ourselves to others.</p>\n\n<p>How will we bring, deliver, redeem and take ourselves out of the straits?</p>\n\n<p> <em>Be patient. </em> <br />\n <em>Expand your sense of the possible.</em> <br />\n <em>Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.</em> <br />\n <em>Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.</em> <br />\n <em>Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.</em> <br />\n <em>Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.</em> <br />\n <em>Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.</em> <br />\n <em>Understand humility.</em> <br />\n <em>Foster dignity.</em> <br />\n <em>Endure.</em> </p>\n\n<p> <em>10 of the 25 \"Principles of Adult Behavior\" , by John Perry Barlow</em> </p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah; John Perry Barlow's \"25 Principles of Adult Behavior\"", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Rachtzah", "slug": "rachtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 221, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Rachtzah | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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/rachtzah-138", "og:title": "Rachtzah | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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-daughters-14", "title": "Four Daughters", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "Around our tables sit four daughters: Wise Daughter The wise daughter understands that not everything is as it appears....", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>Around our tables sit four daughters:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Wise Daughter</strong></p>\n\n<p>The wise daughter understands that not everything is as it appears. She is the one who speaks up, confident that her opinion counts. She is the one who can take the tradition and ritual that is placed before her, turn it over and over, and find personal meaning in it. She is the one who can find the secrets in the empty spaces between the letters of the Torah. She is the one who claims a place for herself.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Wicked Daughter</strong></p>\n\n<p>The wicked daughter is the one who dares to challenge the simplistic answers she has been given. She is the one who asks too many questions. She is the one not content to remain in her prescribed place. She is the one who breaks the mold. She is the one who challenges the status quo. Some call her wicked and rebellious but we call her daring and courageous.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Simple Daughter</strong></p>\n\n<p>The simple daughter is the one who accepts what she is given without asking for more. She is the one who trusts easily and believes what she is told. She is the one who prefers waiting and watching over seeking and acting. She is the one who believes that the redemption from Egypt was the final act of freedom. She is the one who follows in the footsteps of others.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Daughter Who Does Not Know How To Ask</strong></p>\n\n<p>Last is the daughter who does not know how to ask. She is one who obeys and does not question. She is the one who is content to be invisible. She has yet to find her voice.</p>\n\n<p>The four questions, like most of the seder, are meant to be participatory.  They are a jumping off point for exploration of the themes of Passover and our identities as modern Jews.   According to the Babylonian Talmud, the ancient rabbis would remove the seder plate in an effort to stimulate discussion, exempting the table from the \"mah nishtana\" if the questions flowed.  Even the Hebrew lends itself to discussion, as the word for simple - <em>tam</em> - also means \"perfect.\"   The simple son or daughter asks the most perfect question around which everyone may learn.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Rabbi Alon Ferency, Shir Ge'ulah Haggadah", "featured": 0, "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": 230, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Four Daughters | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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/four-daughters-14", "og:title": "Four Daughters | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "candle-lighting-117", "title": "Candle Lighting", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "The seder officially begins with a physical act: lighting the candles. In Jewish tradition, lighting candles and saying...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>The seder officially begins with a physical act: lighting the candles. In Jewish tradition, lighting candles and saying a blessing over them marks a time of transition, from the day that is ending to the one that is beginning, from ordinary time to sacred time. Lighting the candles is an important part of our Passover celebration because their flickering light reminds us of the importance of keeping the fragile flame of freedom alive in the world.</p>\n\n<p>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה, יְיָ אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ, מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֺלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָֽׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֺתָּיו, וְצִוָֽנוּ לְהַדְלִיק נֵר שֶׁל יוֹם טוֹב</p>\n\n<p> <em>Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Yom Tov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has sanctified us with laws and commanded us to light the festival lights.</p>\n\n<p>As we light the festival candles, we acknowledge that as they brighten our Passover table, good thoughts, good words, and good deeds brighten our days.</p>\n\n<p>Why do we light two candles, when the prayer uses the singular \"neir\" for one?  We are told in the 4th commandment to \"remember\" and \"keep\" the Sabbath and the two candles reflect the two acts.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Haggadot.com, Shir Geulah", "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": 221, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Candle Lighting | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "telling-our-story-28", "title": "Telling Our Story", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "Our story starts in ancient times, with Abraham, the first person to have the idea that maybe all those little statues h...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>Our story starts in ancient times, with Abraham, the first person to have the idea that maybe all those little statues his contemporaries worshiped as gods were just statues. The idea of one God, invisible and all-powerful, inspired him to leave his family and begin a new people in Canaan, the land that would one day bear his grandson Jacob’s adopted name, Israel.</p>\n\n<p>God had made a promise to Abraham that his family would become a great nation, but this promise came with a frightening vision of the troubles along the way: “Your descendants will dwell for a time in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and afflicted for four hundred years; however, I will punish the nation that enslaved them, and afterwards they shall leave with great wealth.\"</p>\n\n<p>This promise has sustained our ancestors and us.</p>\n\n<p>For not only one enemy has risen against us to annihilate us, but in every generation there are those who rise against us. But God saves us from those who seek to harm us.</p>\n\n<p>In the years our ancestors lived in Egypt, our numbers grew, and soon the family of Jacob became the People of Israel. Pharaoh and the leaders of Egypt were alarmed by this great nation growing within their borders, so they enslaved us. We were forced to perform hard labor, building cities for the pharoahs. The Egyptians feared that even as slaves, the Israelites might grow strong and rebel. So Pharaoh decreed that Israelite baby boys should be drowned, to prevent the Israelites from overthrowing those who had enslaved them.</p>\n\n<p>But God heard the cries of the Israelites. And God brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and outstretched arm, with great awe, miraculous signs and wonders. God brought us out not by angel or messenger, but through God’s own intervention.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Jewish Boston", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 233, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Telling Our Story | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "ten-plagues-420", "title": "The Ten Plagues", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "Wine in the Passover seder represents the joy, celebration, and redemption of the Jewish people, taken from slavery to f...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>Wine in the Passover seder represents the joy, celebration, and redemption of the Jewish people, taken from slavery to freedom. We spill drops of wine – we sacrifice bits of joy of the Exodus’ conclusion – when we count the ten plagues that HaShem brought on Pharoah and the Egyptians. The Jews’ freedom was earned at the cost of others’ suffering, and because of this, we do not lick our fingers after we spill drops of wine.</p>\n\n<p>Throughout Jewish law and teachings, it is improper to take delight in another’s hardship. We do not enjoy the sweetness of wine as we remember how G-d made our ancestors’ captors suffer.</p>\n\n<p>As we rejoice at our deliverance from slavery, we acknowledge that our freedom was hard-earned. We pour out a drop of wine for each of the plagues as we recite them.</p>\n\n<p>Dip a finger or a spoon into your wine glass for a drop for each plague.</p>\n\n<p>These are the ten plagues which God brought down on the Egyptians:</p>\n\n<p>Blood | dam | <strong>דָּם</strong></p>\n\n<p>Frogs | tzfardeiya | <strong>צְפַרְדֵּֽעַ</strong></p>\n\n<p>Lice | kinim | <strong>כִּנִּים</strong></p>\n\n<p>Beasts | arov | <strong>עָרוֹב</strong></p>\n\n<p>Cattle disease | dever | <strong>דֶּֽבֶר</strong></p>\n\n<p>Boils | sh’chin | <strong>שְׁחִין</strong></p>\n\n<p>Hail | barad | <strong>בָּרָד</strong></p>\n\n<p>Locusts | arbeh |<strong> אַרְבֶּה</strong></p>\n\n<p>Darkness | choshech | <strong>חֹֽשֶׁךְ</strong></p>\n\n<p>Death of the Firstborn | makat b’chorot | <strong>מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת</strong></p>\n\n<p>The Egyptians needed ten plagues because after each one they were able to come up with excuses and explanations rather than change their behavior.</p>\n\n<p>Today, even more than in previous years, we face ten modern plagues that bring suffering around the globe:</p>\n\n<p>Making War, Teaching Hate, Spoiling the Earth, Perverting Government, Inciting Violence, Neglect of Human Needs, Oppression of Peoples and Nations, Corruption of Culture, Subjugation of Science, Erosion of Freedoms.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Jewish Boston", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 235, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "third-glass-wine-and-elijahs-cup", "title": "Third Glass of Wine and Elijah's Cup", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "The Third Glass of Wine We bless the third cup of wine: בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p><strong>The Third Glass of Wine</strong></p>\n\n<p>We bless the third cup of wine:</p>\n\n<p>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן</p>\n\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.</p>\n\n<p>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.</p>\n\n<p>Drink the third glass of wine!</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Cup of Elijah</strong></p>\n\n<p>We now open the front door to invite the prophet Elijah to join our seder.</p>\n\n<p>In the Bible, Elijah was a fierce defender of God to a disbelieving people. At the end of his life, rather than dying, he was whisked away to heaven. Tradition holds that he will return in advance of messianic days to herald a new era of peace, so we set a place for Elijah at many joyous, hopeful Jewish occasions, such as a baby’s bris and the Passover seder.</p>\n\n<p>אֵלִיָּֽהוּ הַנָּבִיא, אֵלִיָּֽהוּ הַתִּשְׁבִּי,</p>\n\n<p>אֵלִיָּֽהוּ, אֵלִיָּֽהוּ,אֵלִיָּֽהוּ הַגִּלְעָדִי.</p>\n\n<p>בִּמְהֵרָה בְיָמֵֽנוּ יָבוֹא אֵלֵֽינוּ</p>\n\n<p>עִם מָשִֽׁיחַ בֶּן דָּוִד,</p>\n\n<p>עִם מָשִֽׁיחַ בֶּן דָּוִד.</p>\n\n<p>Eliyahu hanavi Eliyahu hatishbi Eliyahu, Eliyahu, Eliyahu hagiladi Bimheirah b’yameinu, yavo eileinu Im mashiach ben-David, Im mashiach ben-David</p>\n\n<p>Elijah the prophet, the returning, the man of Gilad: return to us speedily, in our days with the messiah, son of David.</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": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 222, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Third Glass of Wine and Elijah's Cup | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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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Concern yo...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p> <em>Be patient. </em> <br />\n <em>Expand your sense of the possible.</em> <br />\n <em>Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.</em> <br />\n <em>Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.</em> <br />\n <em>Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.</em> <br />\n <em>Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.</em> <br />\n <em>Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.</em> <br />\n <em>Understand humility.</em> <br />\n <em>Foster dignity.</em> <br />\n <em>Endure.</em> </p>\n\n<p> <em>10 of the 25 \"Principles of Adult Behavior\" , by John Perry Barlow.</em> </p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "John Perry Barlow", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Favorites 2020", "slug": "favorites-2020", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Rachtzah", "slug": "rachtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 370, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Bring, Deliver, Redeem, Take: Principles of Adulthood | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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/bring-deliver-redeem-take-principles-adulthood", "og:title": "Bring, Deliver, Redeem, Take: Principles of Adulthood | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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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The classical interpretation is that by leaving the tzafun until late in the seder, the children will be incented to pay attention.  Once found, we loosely wrap the matzah to remind us that we packed in haste.</p>\n\n<p>As adults, however, tzafun tells us to listen more carefully to Uncle Ziemel and remember the search - what was hidden and now discovered?  What -isms are hidden - racism, sexism, ageism, classism -- and best left behind as we are spiritually redeemed from Egypt? </p>\n\n<p>In Jane Leavy's book \"Last Boy,\" her biography of Yankees star and her childhood hero Mickey Mantle, she distinguishes memory and memorabilia.  \"Memorabilia is a goal, a get...memory is a process, albeit a faulty one.\"  When we are focused on the memorabilia, the next object, we are enslaved to the pursuit of things.  The Afikomen is a literal \"get\", but it's a B plot to the main story that is the result of superimposing thousands of years of memories. </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Chabad.org \"Tzafun\" discussion, Jane Leavy's \"Last Boy\"", "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": 215, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Discovering The Hidden | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "and-you-and-i", "title": "A Night of Reckless Dreams", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "The end of the Seder is the conclusion of a journey, the one that takes us from child to adult, from bondage to freedom,...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>The end of the Seder is the conclusion of a journey, the one that takes us from child to adult, from bondage to freedom, from hidden to revealed, from questioning to certain of our actions.</p>\n\n<p>The Jews left Egypt and survived.</p>\n\n<p>Life is a wilderness and they were savage.<br />\nLife is an awakening and they were alert.<br />\nLife is a flowering and they blossomed.<br />\nLife is a struggle and they struggled.<br />\nLife is a gift and they were free to accept it.</p>\n\n<p>From \"Bashert\" by Irena Kelpsisz</p>\n\n<p>Rabbi David Hartman writes: “Passover is the night for reckless dreams; for visions about what a human being can be, what society can be, what people can be, what history may become.”</p>\n\n<p>In the year ahead may we travel safely, march forward, make space for others, and move past our limitations.</p>\n\n<p><strong>לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בִּירוּשָׁלָֽיִם</strong></p>\n\n<p> <em>L’shana haba-ah biy’rushalayim</em> </p>\n\n<p>NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM!</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Various Haggadot.com clips, Jewbelong.com", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Nirtzah", "slug": "nirtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 225, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Night of Reckless Dreams | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "moses-construction-company", "title": "Moses Construction Company", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "For two generations we have been told that the Israelites \"built the pyramids.\" But the great pyramids of Egypt were con...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>For two generations we have been told that the Israelites \"built the pyramids.\" But the great pyramids of Egypt were constructed in roughly 2300 BCE, about 1,000 years before it is estimated that the Israelites became enslaved in Mitzrayim. Exodus tells us that we build \"great <strong>cities</strong>, Pithon and Ramses\" but the Greek translation adds \"cities Pithon, Ramses and On\" - On is also known as Heliopolis, the City of the Sun. Many of the religious structures in Heliopolis were obelisks, a larger form of a religious pillar like those used by the Caananites in the time of Abraham.</p>\n\n<p>The prophet Jeremiah wrote of the downfall of Egypt, calling for the \"destruction of the pillars of the House of the Sun.\"  Heliopolis is written in Hebrew as \"Beit Shemesh,\" and the the pillars - \"matzevot\" in Hebrew -- were the obelisks engraved to Egyptian deities.</p>\n\n<p>Heliopolis was sacked by the Persians a few centuries later, as Jeremiah had accurately predicted, and the obelisks laid toppled until Julius Caesar sent his armies to retrieve them in the first century.  1,700 years later, they were distributed to major cities in the world, given the nickname \"Cleopatra's Needles\". One arrived in Central Park, New York where the inscriptions were interpreted to show that the original pillars had been defaced and modified by Ramses II, the pharoah mentioned in Exodus, during his continued construction of Heliopolis.</p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Jonathan Lipnick, Israel Institute for Biblical Studies", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/169989/pyramid.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/169989/conversions/pyramid-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 228, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Moses Construction Company | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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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It's a reminder of being a slave in Egypt, at the far end of a lashing.  Another interpretation is that it's a reference from Numbers 11:5-6, where the Israelites long for the onions they had in Egypt. The onion-slinging is a modern day repentence for their whining in the desert. However dismayed they were with the daily manna it was preferable to slavery. And finally, it eliminates hierarchy - kids hit parents, parents hit grandparents, cousins hit cousins, and it continues until someone gets an onion in the eye.</p>\n\n<p>Los Angeleno-Iranian Jew Sam Yebri writes \"One Passover, I even attacked the back of my mother's head because she had refused to buy me any video games that year. I was 17.\" </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Breslov Haggadah, Sam Yebri, The Geulah Papyrus,", "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": 233, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dayenu Interpreted | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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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Hillel Sandwich – Made from the old Reb...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p><strong>Bread O’ Affliction!</strong> – Sure, we wanted to use real bread, but who has the time?!</p>\n\n<p><strong>Hillel Sandwich</strong> – Made from the old Rebbe’s secret recipe! Where’s Elijah when ya need him?!</p>\n\n<p><strong>Burn Bush Burn!</strong> – Our spiciest ice cream peppered with Red Hots! You’ll never quite consume it!</p>\n\n<p><strong>Two Plagues Twisted!</strong> – Boils and locusts swirled together with a rich Red Sea core!</p>\n\n<p><strong>Gephilte Phish!</strong> – Random, minced fish pieces in a fabulous jellied froth!</p>\n\n<p><strong>Son Who Don’t Know How to Ask!</strong> – We mixed in not one, not two—but four cups of wine!! You don’t have to be wicked or wise (or simple, even!) to love this combination!</p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "McSweeneys.net, April 3, 2015", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/170004/charoset.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/170004/conversions/charoset-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maror", "slug": "maror" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 278, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Rejected Ben & Jerry's Passover Ice Cream Flavors | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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/charoset-31", "og:title": "Rejected Ben & Jerry's Passover Ice Cream Flavors | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/170004/conversions/charoset-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "miriam-s-cup-4", "title": "Miriam's Cup", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "Miriam’s Cup rests on the table, welcoming Miriam the prophet, sister of Moses and Aaron. It is a symbol of the well of...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>Miriam’s Cup rests on the table, welcoming Miriam the prophet, sister of Moses and Aaron. It is a symbol of the well of water that followed the people Israel through the wilderness. The well provided physical nourishment through water, but also spiritual nourishment, as a constant reminder of the Divine presence within the community. It remains on our table throughout our seder, guiding us in our journey as we reenact the exodus from slavery to freedom tonight.</p>\n\n<p>Miriam encouraged her people to sing and to dance on their way to freedom. We think of our own journey into uncharted landscapes, and of the song inside each of us waiting to be sung. Like Miriam, without knowing the steps, we should take a chance.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Shir Ge'ulah Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Urchatz", "slug": "urchatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 223, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Miriam's Cup | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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": "from-cuba-to-miami", "title": "Cross The Sea To Freedom", "author": "Hal Stern", "author_handle": "freeholdhal130378", "author_initials": "HS", "covertext": "Exodus 14 verses 19-21 tell the tail end of the Exodus, as the Jews approach the Red Sea with the Egyptian army in hot p...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/conversions/beijing08-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105943/beijing08.jpg", "body": "<p>Exodus 14 verses 19-21 tell the tail end of the Exodus, as the Jews approach the Red Sea with the Egyptian army in hot pursuit.  They are 3 verses of 72 characters each, a highly unusual pattern in the Torah.   If you reverse the order of the middle verse, as it deals with HaShem's severity in bringing darkness to the Egyptian army, and line up the 3 verses, reading down the columns as an acrostic you get the 72 \"Names of God\" revealed to the Israelites.   They are names in that they represent ways in which HaShem may be manifest in the world.   But even then, with all of the possibilities of calling for Divine help exposed, it's up to the Israelites to literally take the first step.</p>\n\n<p>God said to Moses, \"Why are you crying out to Me? Speak to the Children of Israel! Lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea, and split it.  Then the Children of Israel will corss the sea on dry land.\"  The Midrash explains that nothing happened until Nachshon ben Amminadav actually stepped into the waves at the last minute.  Prayer is good, but the Israelites had to get off the schneid and do something.   </p>\n\n<p>The first step to freedom is terrifying.  Especially when it involves water, violence, and the unknown.</p>\n\n<p>Tony Lopez was a Cuba-born sculptor whose large-scale roosters dot the \"Calle Ocho\" in Miami's Little Havana. He is also the creator of Miami's Holocaust Memorial, an outstretched hand reaching up - to the open sky, toward freedom.  Cuban artists who found refuge in Miami share similar tales - of imprisonment, of crossing the sea under uncertain conditions, of the joy of hearing their Miranda rights read when the Coast Guard arrested them because, for the first time, they had actual rights. Today, the \"Ladies in White\" attend Sunday Mass in Cuba, holding flowers, walking silently as an opposition group to the political imprisonment of journalists, librarians and activists.  </p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Miami Cuban history, Kabbalah online \"The 72 Names of G-D\", street mural on Calle Ocho", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/173916/IMG_7556.JPG", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/173916/conversions/IMG_7556-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 251, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Cross The Sea To Freedom | Passover haggadah by Hal Stern", "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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