{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "passover-auschwitz", "title": "Passover in Auschwitz", "author": "Alex Amchi", "author_handle": "alex-amchi", "author_initials": "AA", "covertext": "Menachem Mendel of Kotzk maintained that \"whoever believes in miracles is a fool; and whoever does not believe in miracl...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104798/conversions/profile442032652622931-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104798/profile442032652622931", "body": "<blockquote>\n<p>Menachem Mendel of Kotzk maintained that \"whoever believes in miracles is a fool; and whoever does not believe in miracles is an atheist.\"</p>\n\n<p>How can the idea of the miraculous be meaningful to us today? We may be guided by the biblical Hebrew term for miracle, nes, which means \"sign.\" A miracle is an event that signifies something of significance, something that makes an important difference in my life or in the life of my community. A miracle is an intimation of an experience of transcending meaning. The sign-miracle does not refer to something beyond or contrary to logic or nature. It refers to events and experiences that make us take notice of the extraordinary in the ordinary, the wonder in the everyday, the marvel in the routine. Signs do not violate reason or nature. They are natural moments in our lives that we recognize as transforming.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>—Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Passover in Auschwitz, as told by Rabbi Nissen Mangel</strong></p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>How it happened I don't know, suddenly we hear tonight is Pesach / Passover. Passover as everyone knows is the festival of liberation, when the Jewish people were liberated from the bondage, the enslavement in Egypt, the liberation. And people celebrate, Passover!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We heard tonight is Passover; our barrack had over 1,000 inmates who were Jews. We have to celebrate! Afterwards, at that time I didn’t think of it, what did we celebrate? Liberty? Freedom? We were much more enslaved than the Jews in Egypt... In Egypt not six million Jews were killed, not even one million were killed. Children were drowned in the Nile, but one and a half million children in the Holocaust. They at least had some food in Egypt, what did we have? We were eating earthworms, but nobody questions that it is a festival, a holiday of liberation, we have to celebrate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone sits up on their cot. How do we celebrate? It’s called the Haggada; there is a certain ritual, a certain prayer that you say. I remembered the \"Mah Nishtana,\" I said with my childish voice loud, and the whole barrack, a thousand people, sings after me. Someone else remembered \"Shema Yisroel,\" a different section. We sang \"Ani Ma'amin\" (\"I believe\"). singing songs of liberation from Egypt</p>\n\n\n\n<p>And can you imagine 1,000 people singing, the SS comes in... Such a thing is unheard of! Singing in a concentration camp, in a death camp? Singing? The SS comes in with his rifle, and he says \"If you don’t go to sleep immediately, you will all be shot!\" and it wasn't just a threat, he meant it.  So of course everyone hit their pillow, the plank of wood. Believe me ladies and gentlemen it didn't take 10 minutes. The SS walked out of the barrack, and everyone jumped up again to sing. This time he comes in again, furious! He held up the gun, \"Everyone go to sleep.” If you don't do this immediately everyone will be shot!\" Of course everyone laid down again. He came, he left, a third time.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone sat up singing, praying... we couldn't dance but, we were celebrating the festival of liberation. Was everyone in this barracks religious? Certainly not, I am sure there were some assimilated Jews, nonreligious Jews. But at this moment everyone realized it was Passover, the day of liberation. Not one person protested! No one said, \"If you want to do it, go do it somewhere else!\" “And sing there and pray there, but don't endanger my life.” Not one person raised their voice like this. Then I saw every Jew is a believer! The only question, some unconsciously, some consciously. This is when I saw every Jew believes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three times the SS warned us, you are going to be shot, to be killed. We know the SS did this! But we jumped up and continued celebrating. He came in and he looked around bewildered, and we were sure this was our end... 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Z'man cheiruteinu, (b'ahavah,) mikra kodesh, zeicher litziat mitzrayim. Ki vanu vacharta v'otanu kidashta mikol ha’amim. (v'shabat) umo’adei kod’shecha (b'ahavah uv'ratzon) b'simchah uv'sason hinchaltanu. Baruch atah Adonai, m'kadeish (h’shabbat v') Yisrael v'hazmanim.</em> </p>\n\n<p>Praised are you, Adonai, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, Who has chosen us from among all people, and languages, and made us holy through Your mitzvot, giving us lovingly [Shabbat for rest] festivals for joy, and special times for celebration, this [Shabbat and this] Passover, this [given in love] this sacred gathering to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt. You have chosen us, You have shared Your holiness with us among all other peoples. For with [Shabbat and] festive revelations of Your holiness, happiness and joy You have granted us [lovingly] joyfully the holidays. Praised are you, Adonai, Who sanctifies [Shabbat], Israel and the festivals.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.haggadot.com/clip/traditional-urchatz\"><strong>Urchatz</strong></a></p>\n\n<p> <em>Ritually wash hands without reciting the blessing. The need for hand washing before eating vegetables is no longer a ritual requirement, however, it is included here in the traditional Seder.</em> </p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.haggadot.com/clip/traditional-karpas\"><strong>Karpas</strong></a></p>\n\n<p> <em>Take less than a kezayit (the volume of one olive) of the karpas, dip it into salt-water, and recite the following blessing:</em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה</strong></p>\n\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha’olam, borei p’ri ha’adamah.</p>\n\n<p>Blessed are You, Lord, our God, Ruler of the universe, who creates the fruit of the earth.</p>\n\n<p><em>Then EAT it! </em></p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.haggadot.com/clip/traditional-yachatz\"><strong>Yachatz</strong></a></p>\n\n<p> <em>Take the middle matzah and break it into two, one piece larger than the other.</em> </p>\n\n<p> <em>The larger piece is set aside to serve as Afikoman, the dessert. 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Next year, we will be free.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Refill the wine cups, but don’t drink yet.</em> </p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.haggadot.com/clip/traditional-four-questions\"><strong>Four Questions</strong></a></p>\n\n<p>מַה נִּשְּׁתַּנָה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילוֹת?</p>\n\n<p> <em>Mah nish-ta-na ha-lai-lah ha-zeh mikol ha-lei-lot?</em> </p>\n\n<p>Why is this night of Passover different from all other nights of the year?</p>\n\n<p>שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין חָמֵץ וּמַצָּה, הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה - כּוּלוֹ מַצָּה.</p>\n\n<p> <em>She-b'chol ha-lei-lot anu och'lin cha-meitz u-matzah. Ha-laylah hazeh kulo matzah.</em> </p>\n\n<p>On all other nights, we eat either leavened or unleavened bread, why on this night do we eat only matzah?</p>\n\n<p>שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין שְׁאָר יְרָקוֹת, - הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מָרוֹר.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Sheb'chol ha-lei-lot anu och'lin sh'ar y'rakot. 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