{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "passover-symbols-61", "title": "Passover Symbols", "author": "Oliver Thompson", "author_handle": "oliver-thompson", "author_initials": "OT", "covertext": "We have now told the story of Passover, but we’re not quite done. There are still some symbols on our seder plate we hav...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105704/conversions/profile10204473075866929-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105704/profile10204473075866929", "body": "<p>We have now told the story of Passover, but we’re not quite done. There are still some symbols on our seder plate we haven’t talked about yet. The rabbis would say that whoever didn’t explain the shank bone, matzah, and marror (or bitter herbs) hasn’t done Passover justice. The shank bone represents the Pesach, the special lamb sacrifice made in the days of the Temple for the Passover holiday. It is called the pesach, from the Hebrew word meaning “to pass over,” because God passed over the houses of our ancestors in Egypt when visiting plagues upon our oppressors. On our table we have chosen to substitute beets to represent the red blood of the Pesach while honoring the vegetarians at our seder table. The matzah reminds us that when our ancestors were finally free to leave Egypt, there was no time to pack or prepare. Our ancestors grabbed whatever dough was made and set out on their journey, letting their dough bake into matzah as they fled. The bitter herbs provide a visceral reminder of the bitterness of slavery, the life of hard labor our ancestors experienced in Egypt.</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Possible topics for discussion]</em> </p>\n\n<p>What sacrifices are we willing to make to invite G-d's grace in our lives?</p>\n\n<p>How have we been hurried or rushed during opportunities for freedom or liberation?</p>\n\n<p>What bitterness have we experienced when perpetrating, witnessing, or being subjected to slavery, oppression, or persecution.</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": 196, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Passover Symbols | Passover haggadah by Oliver Thompson", "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 have been fortunate to sit at the table of...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105704/conversions/profile10204473075866929-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105704/profile10204473075866929", "body": "<p>Welcome and thank you all for being at the Thompson-Elliott family Seder. We have been fortunate to sit at the table of other families who have shown us such grace and generosity. 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It is customary that everyone pours for somoene else, thus introducing the spirit of cooperation to the table. The seder starts with wine and then gives us three more opportunities to refill our cup and drink.</p>\n\n<p><strong>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן</strong></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>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who blesses us, sanctified us with commandments, and lovingly gave to us the Holiday of Matzah. Tonight we celebrate our liberation from personal, social, economic and environmental bondage. 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Why did we leave? The job? Were we through with Boise? Did we need to begin a new chapter in our lives? We were uncertain about many things. The economy, tearing ourselves from the place we had raised a family. Our move was very difficult physically and emotionally. There were many things we clung to here in Boise. People, places and things that were familiar to us and gave us comfort. Yet we had to leave.</p>\n\n<p>We moved in June of 2008 to a house on a mountaintop. In June of 2009, we moved again to a more traditional neighborhood. In June 2010, after navigating many unknowns and transitions we returned to Boise. But Boise was new again and we as a family were once again settled.</p>\n\n<p>At some point along the way, my kids had turned me on to Lada Gaga. One of her big hits was a tune called Speechless wherin she pleads with her father to undergo complicated but life-saving surgery. 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Inky made a decision, or perhaps heard a call from a higher power to escape the comfy but constraining confines of his tank at the National Aquarium of New Zealand and is at large somewhere in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of New Zealand's north island.</p>\n\n<p>Near as experts can figure from his splotchy tracks, Mr. Inky squeezed through a slight gap at the top of his tank, flopped to the floor, then slithered about eight feet overland to slide down a drainpipe more than 160 feet long, and finally to plop into the bay.</p>\n\n<p>Like the Israelites who risked death by drowning when they crossed the red sea, Inky risked death by, well whatever the opposite of drowning is for cephalopod molluscs.</p>\n\n<p>Alix Harvey, an aquarist at Britain's Marine Biological Association, told the  <em>New York Times</em>, \"Octopuses are fantastic escape artists.\" But here's where I disagree with Mr. Harvey when he states, \"We should be careful not to project human traits onto octopuses.\" Inky chose to bolt from surroundings in which he was safe, secure, and hand fed, for the dangers of an open sea that teems sharks, seals, and whales that might eat him. 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Having retold stories, recalled historic movements of liberation, and reflected on the struggles people still face for freedom and equality, we are ready to embark on a year that we hope will bring positive change in the world and freedom to people everywhere.</p>\n\n<p>And since the laws of Kashrut prohibit eating Octopi, perhaps this year, we can include Inky in our declarations.</p>\n\n<p>NEXT YEAR IN THE OPEN OCEAN!</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>\n\n<p>NEXT YEAR MAY BE ALL BE FREE!</p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "New York Times, April 16, 2016", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11853/inky.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/11853/conversions/inky-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Conclusion", "slug": "conclusion" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 206, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Inky's quest for freedom | Passover haggadah by Oliver Thompson", "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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Our tradition speaks of four different types of children who might react differently to the Passover Seder. Expanding on this definition, lets think of these children instead as \"Open Minds\" that are open to new thought, new ideas, and new interpretations of timeless traditions. It is our job to make our story accessible to all the members of our community, so we think about how we might best reach each type of new mind: What does the wise mind say?</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Ask an 'open mind' to read the 1st question]</em> </p>\n\n<p>The <strong>Wise </strong>mind asks... 'What are the testimonies and laws which God commanded us to do?'</p>\n\n<p>You must teach the open mind the rules of observing the holiday of Passover.</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Ask an 'open mind' to read the 2nd question]</em> </p>\n\n<p>The <strong>alienated </strong>mind asks... 'What does this service mean to you? To you and not to yourself!'</p>\n\n<p>Because when we take ourselves out of the community, we miss the point. 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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\n\n<p>[Possible topics for discussion]</p>\n\n<p>Could we be making the same mistakes? 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