{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "passover-during-a-plague", "title": "Passover during a plague", "author": "Thomas Michel", "author_handle": "thomas-michel", "author_initials": "TM", "covertext": "The essay below was pubished 2 years ago: this is our 3rd \"Plague Passover\".  This year, Covid-19 has taken a (probably...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The essay below was pubished 2 years ago: this is our 3rd \"Plague Passover\".  This year, Covid-19 has taken a (probably temporary) back seat to the war in Ukraine and impending climate catastrophes and dire existential threats to our fellow humans and to our planet.  Still, let us read and remember.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span><span><b>The Power of Passover During a Plague</b></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>By Alana Newhouse</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>New York Times, March 30, 2020</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>This year, Passover falls at the beginning of April — smack in the middle of what some experts estimate will be the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in America. It’s not just the timing of the holiday — built around a retelling of the Jews’ exodus from slavery in Egypt — that feels off. It’s that every aspect of its story and rituals now seems almost cruelly ironic.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>The Passover Seder centers on the experience of being thrust out of our homes, but these days we feel trapped inside of them. The story involves miraculous plagues that saved us; today we pray for the end of one. There’s the commandment to clean our homes of all non-Passover food, which we just spent innumerable hours and dollars hoarding.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>Then there’s the real heartbreaker: The Seder is when we traditionally gather with family, friends and even strangers. “Let all who are hungry come and eat,” we say. These days, many of us can’t even be in the same house as our own parents or children. We don’t come within six feet of strangers.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>And yet, there will still be Passover. Indeed, I’ve come to think of Passover as the stem cell of the Jewish people, a reserve of core source material with the proven ability to generate new meaning and solace in circumstances even more extreme than what we are living through now.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span>Perhaps you’re disappointed because you can’t celebrate the way we’re used to. But do you also remember matzo, the unleavened cracker we eat because Jews rushed out of their homes before their bread could rise? The entire holiday is rooted in glorifying a moment when life unfolded in very unexpected ways — and human beings found meaning, even liberation, in it…</span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>…Most Jews throughout history have not been free, whether from murderous regimes or famines or pandemics. What we have been is devoted to the idea that we deserve to be. “The Haggadah’s purpose is not, in fact, to present a narrative,” Rabbi Mendel Herson, associate dean of the Rabbinical College of America, explained to me. “It’s a how-to guide to finding our own personal liberation”…</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>…Last week, a group of major Orthodox rabbis in Israel announced that they would permit people to use Zoom videoconferencing for their Seders — a previously unimaginable accommodation to stringent Jewish law. But that’s the point. We may be away from loved ones, or shut out of communal spaces. We may not be <span>preparing with the same vigor</span>, or shopping with the same zeal. But we will do what millions of Jews have done before us: manifest our hope for liberation.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>That is our obligation, and our privilege. 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He told Pharaoh to build storehouses and fill them with grain. When years of famine struck, there was food to eat in Egypt. The Pharaoh was so grateful that when Joseph's brothers came in search of food, he invited them to settle. They lived there for many years and became known as the Israelites. After a while, a new king ruled over Egypt \"who knew not Joseph.\" He enslaved the Israelites because they were becoming \"too many and too might for us.\" Taskmasters were set over them and they were afflicted with burdens and they were made to build cities and pyramids for the Egyptians. Generations passed and a new Pharaoh feared a prophecy that a male child would be born to the Hebrew slaves who would lead a rebellion among the slaves and threaten the Pharaoh's throne. This Pharaoh ordered that all newborn boys be thrown into the Nile River. A Levite couple, Amram and Yocheved, would not kill their newborn son, and Yocheved tried to save her baby by setting him adrift on an ark of bulrushes on the river Nile. The Pharoah's daughter, coming to bathe in the river, found the child. She felt pity for the helpless child and decided to keep him as her own. She named him Moshe (Moses), which means \"drawn from the water.\" Moses grew to manhood at the Pharoah's palace, but he could not ignore the suffering of his people. God came to Moses and said to him: \"I am the God of your ancestors. I have seen the suffering of the Israelites and I have heard their cries. I am ready to take them out of Egypt and bring them to a new land, a land flowing with milk and honey.\" God told Moses to return to Egypt to bring the message of freedom to the Israelites, to lead the them into Canaan, the land promised to Abraham. When Moses asked Pharaoh to free the Israelites, he refused, so God brought ten plagues on the Egyptians, including a river of blood, an invasion of frogs, and the death of first-born children. Each plague frightened the Pharaoh, and each time, he promised to free the slaves. But when each plague ended, Pharaoh did not keep his word. It was only after the last plague, the death of the first-born of the Egyptians, that Pharaoh agreed to let the Israelites go. To make sure that no Israelite first-born was destroyed by mistake, the Israelites marked their doorways with the blood of the Paschal lamb so that the Angel of Death would \" pass over their houses.\" The Israelites feared that Pharaoh would not keep his promise to release them, so they prepared to leave Egypt in a great hurry. They did not have time to allow the dough to rise to make bread to take with them, so they baked a simple, unleavened bread. The Israelites did not leave Egypt alone; a “mixed multitude” went with them. 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It’s not just the timing of the holiday — built around a retelling of the Jews’ exodus from slavery in Egypt — that feels off. It’s that every aspect of its story and rituals now seems almost cruelly ironic.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>The Passover Seder centers on the experience of being thrust out of our homes, but these days we feel trapped inside of them. The story involves miraculous plagues that saved us; today we pray for the end of one. There’s the commandment to clean our homes of all non-Passover food, which we just spent innumerable hours and dollars hoarding.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>Then there’s the real heartbreaker: The Seder is when we traditionally gather with family, friends and even strangers. “Let all who are hungry come and eat,” we say. These days, many of us can’t even be in the same house as our own parents or children. We don’t come within six feet of strangers.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span>And yet, there will still be Passover. Indeed, I’ve come to think of Passover as the stem cell of the Jewish people, a reserve of core source material with the proven ability to generate new meaning and solace in circumstances even more extreme than what we are living through now…</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span>…Most Jews throughout history have not been free, whether from murderous regimes or famines or pandemics. What we have been is devoted to the idea that we deserve to be. “The Haggadah’s purpose is not, in fact, to present a narrative,” Rabbi Mendel Herson, associate dean of the Rabbinical College of America, explained to me. “It’s a how-to guide to finding our own personal liberation.”</span></span></span></p>\n\n\n\n<p><span><span><span>That is our obligation, and our privilege. 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We succumb to compassion fatigue—aware that we cannot possibly respond to every injustice that arises around the world. On this night, we are reminded that our legacy as the descendants of slaves creates in us a different kind of responsibility—we must protect the stranger because we were strangers in the land of Egypt. </span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span>Let us add a fifth question to this year’s Seder. 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This year, whether you’re participating in a Seder in your home or connecting virtually with your family and friends, we hope you will embrace the spirit of Passover by engaging in meaningful conversations about freedom and justice.</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>1. </span></span></span><i><span><span><span>Dayenu </span></span></span></i><span><span><span>means “enough.” What does it mean to have enough? When do you say </span></span></span><i><span><span><span>Dayenu </span></span></span></i><span><span><span>in your life? </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>2. </span></span></span><span><span>As COVID-19 continues to threaten our global community, how do you stay resilient and grounded in </span></span><span><span><span>the face of uncertainty?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>3. </span></span></span><span><span>If you were to add a new food to the Seder plate to symbolize the journey to freedom, </span></span><span><span><span>what would it be — and why?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>4. </span></span></span><span><span>What does freedom mean to you? </span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>5. </span></span></span><span><span>How can you speak out against ‘modern day Pharaohs’ who undermine freedom and democracy in our </span></span><span><span><span>world?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>6. </span></span></span><span><span>We retell the Passover story in each generation. What do you want the next generation to remember </span></span><span><span><span>about how you responded to today’s challenges? </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>7. </span></span></span><span><span>Reciting the ‘10 Plagues’ is one of the most dramatic moments in the Passover </span></span><i><span><span><span>Seder</span></span></span></i><span><span><span>. What are some of the plagues that threaten our planet today?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>8. </span></span></span><span><span>The </span></span><i><span><span><span>Haggadah </span></span></span></i><span><span><span>concludes with a hopeful aspiration for the coming year. What’s your hope for your life and for our collective future this year? </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>9. </span></span></span><span><span>What actions will you take in the year ahead to pursue justice for people around the world? </span></span></span></span></span></p>\n\n\n\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>To download AJWS’s social justice Haggadah and other original resources for Passover, visit </span></span></span><span><span><i><span><span><span>www.ajws.org/passover</span></span></span></i></span></span><span><span><span>.</span></span></span></span></span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "American Jewish World Service", "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": 162, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dinner | Passover haggadah by Thomas Michel", "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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