{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "reeds-seder-table-moving-traditions-passover-exploration", "title": "Reeds on the Seder Table: A Moving Traditions Passover Exploration", "author": "Moving Traditions", "author_handle": "moving-traditions", "author_initials": "MT", "covertext": "Three Insights from the Tale of a Young Egyptian WomanThis Passover, we suggest adding the story of a courageous woman t...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/139877/conversions/MT_favicon400-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/139877/MT_favicon400.png", "body": "<p><strong>Three Insights from the Tale of a Young Egyptian Woman</strong></p><p><img src=\"http://movingtraditions.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/reeds-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"reeds-300x225.jpg\" />This Passover, we suggest adding the story of a courageous woman to round out your seder – that of Bat Paro, the daughter of Pharaoh. Adding reeds to the table will recall Bat Paro’s spirit and remind us to stand up for what is right.</p><p><strong>Sometimes You Need to Rebel against Authority</strong></p><p>The Midrash states that when Bat Paro was in the reeds by the river and saw the basket containing an abandoned Hebrew baby, her guards warned her not to defy her father’s command and save the child.  Bat Paro refused to obey their orders, and the angel Gabriel struck down the guards before they were able to harm her.  (Sotah 12b)</p><p><strong>Take Action and Go Beyond Your Expectations</strong></p><p>The Midrash states that when Bat Paro was in the river and the basket floated by, she could not reach the baby through the reeds. Miraculously, her arms stretched out beyond their normal reach and she was able to draw Moses forth from the water.  (Megillah 15b)</p><p><strong>Accept Help</strong></p><p>Once Bat Paro held the baby, the Midrash tells us that Miriam, who was only five years old at the time, ran up through the reeds and offered her a midwife to help care for the child. Bat Paro agreed to have Yocheved, Moses’s and Miriam’s mother, nurse the child. 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A boy is “hit on” as part of a practical joke. A girl is lured into an unwelcomed physical encounter.</p><p>Being fooled is one of the many challenges that teens face on a daily basis. The challenge is new – and old:</p><p>Rabbi Shalom Dov Bear, a 19^th century Chassidic sage, told his son:</p><p><em>There are three things you need to know to be a man: don’t fool yourself, don’t fool others, and don’t allow yourself to be fooled by others. And do it all without trying to impress anyone</em>.</p><p>In preparation for Passover, we’ve been thinking about the “don’t allow yourself to be fooled by others.”</p><p>Today, teens see a world where it is normal to fool people. It seems as if each week, a celebrity, athlete, or politician who has lied to the public admits their shame. TV shows and videos based on pranks form the core of the comedy diet. And every 79 seconds a thief will try to open a bank account with a stolen identity.</p><p>What are the roots of fraud? According to Midrash, the slavery of the Hebrews in Egypt began with being fooled.</p><p><em>In the Book of Exodus we read:<br /></em><em>“And the Egyptians made the children of Israel work vigorously.”<br /></em><em>What is the Hebrew word for vigorously? Parech.<br /></em><em>In Hebrew, Parech can also mean “peh rach” a “soft mouth” meaning “gentle speech”<br /></em><em>How did the Egyptians make the Hebrews work with “gentle speech?”<br /></em><em>Slavery began with Pharaoh saying: “I beg of you, as a special favor, work alongside me today.”<br /></em><em>Pharaoh picked up a basket and shovel and everyone followed him.</em><br /><em>But when it grew dark, he said to his men, “count up the bricks.”<br /></em><em>When they finished he said to the Hebrews:<br /></em><em>“This is the number of bricks that you must make for me everyday.”<br /></em><span>– Sotah 11b; Tanchuma B’haalotecha, 23.</span></p><p>According to this Midrash, the Hebrews got taken in by soft words. 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Sohn</em> </p>\n\n<p>I, Miriam, stand at the sea and turn<br />\nto face the desert stretching endless and still.<br />\nMy eyes are dazzled<br />\nThe sky brilliant blue<br />\nSunburnt sands unyielding white.<br />\nMy hands turn to dove wings.<br />\nMy arms<br />\nreach<br />\nfor the sky<br />\nand I want to sing<br />\nthe song rising inside me.<br />\nMy mouth open<br />\nI stop.<br />\nWhere are the words?<br />\nWhere the melody?<br />\nIn a moment of panic<br />\nMy eyes go blind.<br />\nCan I take a step<br />\nWithout knowing a<br />\nDestination?<br />\nWill I falter<br />\nWill I fall<br />\nWill the ground sink away from under me?<br />\nThe song still unformed— How can I sing?<br />\nTo take the first step—<br />\nTo sing a new song—<br />\nIs to close one’s eyes<br />\nand dive<br />\ninto unknown waters,<br />\nFor a moment knowing nothing risking all— But then to discover<br />\nThe waters are friendly<br />\nThe ground is firm.<br />\nAnd the song—<br />\nthe song rises again.<br />\nOut of my mouth<br />\ncome words lifting the wind. 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This year, to address the #metoo movement and our societal need for deep reckoning around gender, sexuality, and power, it is time to take a step further.</p>\n\n<p>I propose that we do so by adding mirrors to our seder plates this year.</p>\n\n<p>Before proceeding, a warning. The Rabbinic midrash that introduces the role of women’s mirrors in the Exodus imagines a past peopled only by heterosexual married couples. It ends with the birth of many, many children, as if there were only one ultimate path for women to contribute to the Jewish future. This is enough to keep some of us away. But I think that there is something about the significance of the mirror in this story that we all need to pay attention to.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Mirrors to Awaken and Embolden</strong></p>\n\n<p>Midrash Tanchuma describes how the Israelite women defied Pharaoh’s decree prohibiting sexual relations. The women made picnics in the fields for their labor-weary partners and then led them in playful flirtation.</p>\n\n<p>As translated by Aviva Zornberg, “The women would take mirrors and look into them with their husbands. A woman would say, ‘I am more beautiful than you,’ and then he would say, ‘I am more beautiful than you.’ As a result they would accustom themselves to desire and they were fruitful and multiplied.”</p>\n\n<p>Notice the steps here: the women take the lead, they are playful, they begin by seeing themselves as desirable – and with these crucial elements develop positive intimacy.</p>\n\n<p>The mirror is a tool these women use to not only affirm their inherent self-worth but to educate and awaken men to their own inherent self-worth so that they can meet as equals.</p>\n\n<p>I hope the story about the righteous women of Exodus will be a powerful source of inspiration for girls and women who are in the process of claiming their right to have and to express desire of all kinds.\nThose who walk in the world as men and boys can also learn from these ancient mirrors. Boys and men need mirrors that show them a vision different from what media and society encourage them to see. Rather than a distorted, oversized sense of themselves or a projected masculinity dependent on dominating women and less powerful men, boys need mirrors to help them see who they really are and can be — as human beings in need of love and validation, play, respect, boundaries, and freedom. I hope they will take from this story the heritage of sharing the lead more often, in all arenas of their lives as a surprisingly liberating pathway to their own freedom as boys and men.</p>\n\n<p>My hope is that transgender and non-binary teens will also find ways to use these ancient mirrors to recognize their own beauty and to have the sharing of their self-knowledge be greeted by parents, peers, and the larger community with appreciation for the diversity of human gender as a wondrous expression of what it means to be free.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Mirrors Help Teens Resist</strong></p>\n\n<p>I have seen teens receive such “mirrors” through the work of Moving Traditions, where teens of all genders come to appreciate their own multi-faceted beauty, see one another as subjects, and resist the tyranny of gender norms and scripts that get in the way of their forming healthy relationships, connections, and expressions of their emerging sexuality.</p>\n\n<p>This year I will put mirrors on my Seder table. I will tell the midrash making changes in my telling to add friends in the fields and couples of various genders. I will use the mirrors to playfully challenge the kids at our table to think more broadly about how they see themselves – beyond their physical selves. I will talk with them about how beautiful they are when they allow themselves to be themselves. The adults at the table will share stories of our journeys to free ourselves from gender norms and scripts, stories of how we came to learn that love and desire grow from positive self-love and from mutuality and equality.</p>\n\n<p>This is a year for every seder to take a step toward becoming more feminist. Because, as bell hooks writes, “A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.” Because “dayenu, v’lo dayennu,” the changes we have witnessed and been part of this year are powerful steps on the journey, but not yet enough.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rabbi Tamara R. 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How do our family immigration stories relate to what is happening today?<br />\nWhen does it liberate us and when does it enslave us?</p>\n\n<p><br />\n<strong>Step 3: Share discussion guidelines, such as those we use in our teen groups.</strong><br />\nDebate to solve problems rather than to win.<br />\nAttack issues, not people—so you can preserve relationships.<br />\nCheck your motivations for engaging in a conflict.<br />\nListen to the other side and be open to admitting that you may be wrong.<br />\nConsider that you might both be right, even if you hold opposite opinions.</p>\n\n<p><br />\n<strong>Step 4: Add secular Inspiration, like this poem by Micky ScottBey Jones.</strong><br />\nTogether we will create  brave space<br />\nBecause there is no such thing as a “safe space”<br />\nWe exist in the real world<br />\nWe all carry scars and we have all caused wounds.<br />\nIn this space<br />\nWe seek to turn down the volume of the outside world,<br />\nWe amplify voices that fight to be heard elsewhere,<br />\nWe call each other to more truth and love<br />\nWe have the right to start somewhere and continue to grow.<br />\nWe have the responsibility to examine what we think we know.<br />\nWe will not be perfect.<br />\nThis space will not be perfect.<br />\nIt will not always be what we wish it to be<br />\nbut<br />\nIt will be our brave space together,<br />\nand<br />\nwe will work on it side by side</p>\n\n<p><strong>Step 5: Now go and do.</strong></p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "https://www.movingtraditions.org/healthy-debate-how-this-night-can-be-different", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Favorites 2020", "slug": "favorites-2020", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/179887/seder-plate-multicolor.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/179887/conversions/seder-plate-multicolor-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 478, "tags": [ { "tag": "Communal", "slug": "communal" }, { "tag": "Family", "slug": "family" } ], "themes": [ { "theme": "Families", "slug": "families" } ], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Healthy Debate: How This Night Can Be Different | Passover haggadah by Moving Traditions", "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/healthy-debate-how-this-night-can-be-different", "og:title": "Healthy Debate: How This Night Can Be Different | Passover haggadah by Moving Traditions", "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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However, we hope you will still take some time in the coming weeks to use our Moving Traditions 2020 Seder Supplement to ensure that your children know your stories and the stories of older relatives.</p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "https://www.movingtraditions.org/passover", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/208067/MT_ShareYourStory.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/208067/conversions/MT_ShareYourStory-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Tzafun", "slug": "tzafun" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 321, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Sharing Your Story | Passover haggadah by Moving Traditions", "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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Each guest places it on their shoulder (using the right hand and left shoulder) while reciting a line from the Book of Exodus:<br />\n <em>And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.</em> </p>\n\n<p>Each guest then feels for a moment as if they are an enslaved Hebrew, carrying the burdens of bondage as they flee Egypt.</p>\n\n<p>Matzah is both the bread of affliction and the bread of freedom. This year, as we mark the second Passover of the pandemic, we are taking time to acknowledge the burdens that the pandemic has placed on people’s shoulders.</p>\n\n<p>Think about all the people who took on extra burdens this year, by choice or by necessity. People you know and people you do not know. Burdens that were economic, that were emotional, that were reflective of systemic injustices. People close by and people far away.<br />\n<br />\n<strong>Step 1: </strong>Break the matzah. Everyone takes a turn placing the larger piece on your shoulder and sharing who you are thinking about and the burden that person or people carried this year. (Guests on camera can use their own piece of matzah!)<br />\n<br />\n<strong>Step 2:</strong> Ask someone to read the following contemporary blessing:<br />\nMay our eyes be open to each other's pain.<br />\nMay our ears be open to each other's cries.<br />\nMay we live with greater awareness.<br />\nMay we practice greater forgiveness.<br />\nAnd may we go forward as free people able to respond to ourselves and each other with compassion, wonderment, appreciation, and love.<br />\n- Rabbi Yael Levy<br />\n<br />\n<strong>Step 3:</strong> Ask everyone to imagine what liberation from the pandemic will look and feel like for them, their friends and family, and the world. Take a moment of quiet to acknowledge the losses of the past year. Then share a hope or vision of liberation.<br />\n<br />\n<strong>Step 4: </strong>Ask everyone to think of the time when we will be liberated from the pandemic. Reach out your hands (either to the camera or to those around you) and say: May these burdens be lifted and may all who eat the bread of affliction taste the bread of freedom.<br />\n<br />\n<strong>Step 5:</strong> Hide the afikomen!<br />\n<br />\nOur 2021 seder resource offers you—and others around your table or online—the opportunity to consider the weight of the challenges you have been carrying over the past year, and the burdens shouldered by so many others who have helped us persevere and arrive at another Passover.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://1ojaw3r6qqumu47c3oltob59-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Passover-Activity.pdf\">Click here</a> to download a PDF of the resource.  We hope our 2021 resource prompts a discussion about ways to promote justice and liberation in the year ahead. 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How do you make these choices?</li>\n</ol>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "https://www.movingtraditions.org/never-again-this-passover-share-thoughts-on-the-war-in-ukraine/", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Honoring The People Of Ukraine", "slug": "honoring-the-people-of-ukraine", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/362809/refugees.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/362809/conversions/refugees-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 220, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Never Again? 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This Passover, I understand.<br />\nWhat else could a brave woman working to save her children and the children of others — so many others whose names she doesn't yet know, and babies who don't even have names, want?</p>\n\n<p>Not the temporary haven of an overcrowded underground subway.</p>\n\n<p>Not the cold and soon to be destroyed theatre devoid of actors but not of tragedy or everyday heroes.</p>\n\n<p>What else could Shifra and Puah, or a thousand Nadyas and Iryanas huddled in Polish and Ukrainian shelters distributing food and blankets want?</p>\n\n<p>Just this — for God, and for each of us — to see the work of their hands and hearts, and to establish, re-establish — for them, with them, safety, security, peace.</p>\n\n<p>And houses for them and their families. 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Think for a moment how you are connected to the natural world – to the spring season and its awakening – and to the ways that the natural world nourishes both body and spirit.</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"https://www.movingtraditions.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/shifshuf-rgb-handwashing-771x622.jpg\" alt=\"shifshuf-rgb-handwashing-771x622.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2><strong>Shifshuf / Rubbing</strong></h2>\n\n<p> <em>After the water is poured, it is customary to rub the hands together to ensure that water covers every part of our hands. While this is done, ask someone to read the following:</em> </p>\n\n<p>Rabbi Toba Spitzer writes that water is a fruitful image for God. 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