{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "sedar-plate-symbols", "title": "Sedar Plate Symbols", "author": "Caitlin Burgess", "author_handle": "cburgess00876577", "author_initials": "CB", "covertext": "We have now told the story of Passover…but wait! We’re not quite done. There are still some symbols on our seder plate w...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>We have now told the story of Passover…but wait! We’re not quite done. There are still some symbols on our seder plate we haven’t talked about yet. Rabban Gamliel would say that whoever didn’t explain the shank bone, matzah, and marror (or bitter herbs) hasn’t done Passover justice. Rabban Gamliel cherished three symbols; tonight we will explain eight! And they are:</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Maror</strong>, bitter herb or horseradish, which represents the bitterness of slavery.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Charoset</strong>, a mixture of apples and nuts and wine, which represents the bricks and mortar we made in ancient times, and the new structures we are beginning to build in our lives today.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Lamb Shank</strong> (or beet) which represents the sacrifices we have made to survive. Before the tenth plague, our people slaughtered lambs and marked our doors with blood: because of this marking, the Angel of Death passed over our homes and our first-born were spared.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Egg</strong>, which symbolizes creative power, our rebirth.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The Parsley</strong>, which represents the new growth of spring, for we are earthy, rooted beings, connected to the Earth and nourished by our connection.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Matzah, </strong>which reminds us that when the chance arises for liberation, we must seize it even if we do not feel ready- indeed, if we wait until we feel fully ready, we may never act at all.</p>\n\n<p><strong>And what about the orange?</strong> In the early 1980s, Susannah Heschel attended a feminist seder where bread was placed on the seder plate, a reaction to a rebbetzin who had claimed lesbians had no more place in Judaism than bread crusts have at a seder. “Bread on the seder plate…renders everything chametz, and its symbolism suggests that being lesbian is transgressive, violating Judaism,” Heschel writes. “I felt that an orange was suggestive of something else: the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians and gay men are contributing and active members of Jewish life.” May our lives be inclusive, welcoming, and fruitful.</p>\n\n<p><strong>And the olive?</strong> We keep an olive on our seder plate as an embodied prayer for peace, in the Middle East and every place where war destroys lives, hopes, and the freedoms we celebrate tonight.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Modified from Elizabeth Pittman", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 231, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Sedar Plate Symbols | Passover haggadah by Caitlin Burgess", "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 great sage Hillel would put the meat in a sandwich made of matzah, along with some of the bitter herbs. While we do not make sacrifices any more – and, in fact, some Jews have a custom of purposely avoiding lamb during the seder so that it is not mistaken as a sacrifice – we honor this custom by eating a sandwich what’s often referred to as a Hillel sandwich. Each of us will take a piece of the remaining Matzah, and add charoset (sweet) and maror (bitter).</p>\n\n<p>Throughout each year and throughout our lifetimes, we challenge ourselves to remember that even in times of strength, it is better to sense our vulnerability, rather than bask in our success. We all have memories of times in which bitter and sweet were mixed in our lives, all in the same bite. Judaism says, sometimes life is like that. We can celebrate and mourn all at the same time. And somehow, everything will be ok. 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We now repeat the story in hopes that this will pass on to the next generation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ancient Hebrews came to Egypt from their land to get provisions during a famine. They became a favored group in Egypt and prospered and multiplied there. Legend tells us that our ancestor Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brothers, became valuable to Pharaoh for his foresight and wisdom. Because of this, his people were welcomed. When new rulers came to power, the Hebrews fell out of favor and were enslaved. Despite their hardships, the Hebrew people survived and grew in numbers. The new Pharaoh became concerned that they would unite with Egypt's enemies.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point the Pharaoh ordered that all newborn male babies be killed. The parents of one boy were determined to save their child and they made a basket so the baby would float in the water.</p>\n\n<p>The baby’s sister, Miriam, took the basket to the river. While she hid nearby, she floated the basket downstream so that her brother would be discovered by the Pharaoh's daughter who bathed there every day.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Pharaoh's daughter saw the baby in the water she decided to save him and raise him as her own son. While wondering who would be his wet nurse, Miriam appeared and suggested Yocheved, the baby's mother. The Pharaoh's daughter agreed and decided that she would call him Moses, because the name means \"I brought him from the river's water.\"</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many years passed and this man named Moses, who had been brought up as an Egyptian prince, saw an overseer brutally whipping an enslaved Hebrew. This so enraged him, that he struck the overseer and killed him. Moses fled to nearby Midian where he became a shepherd and married Zipporah.</p>\n\n<p>His was a tranquil life, but the thought of the persecuted Hebrews in Egypt would not let Moses rest. The legend tells us that an angel appeared to Moses in a miraculously burning bush and commanded him to return to Egypt and help his people regain their freedom.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>After much indecision, Moses finally went back to Egypt and he and his brother Aaron began to talk to the Hebrews in order to arouse a spirit of rebellion in them. Many were, at first, hesitant and afraid, but soon they became convinced of the justice of their cause and agreed to follow Moses's plan of liberation. Moses pleaded with the Pharaoh to let his people go. The Pharaoh refused to let the Hebrews go free. 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The plagues that, we are told, afflicted the Egyptians were:</p>\n\n<p>(Take a drop of wine out of your cup for each plague)</p>\n\n<p>- blood</p>\n\n<p>- frogs</p>\n\n<p>- vermin</p>\n\n<p>-beasts</p>\n\n<p>- boils</p>\n\n<p>- cattle disease</p>\n\n<p>- locusts</p>\n\n<p>- hail</p>\n\n<p>- darkness</p>\n\n<p>- slaying of first born</p>\n\n<p>Our world today is still greatly troubled. For these plagues, let us repeat the same ceremony.</p>\n\n<p>Take a drop of wine out of your cup for each plague)</p>\n\n<p>- war</p>\n\n<p>- illiteracy</p>\n\n<p>- hunger</p>\n\n<p>- crime</p>\n\n<p>- bigotry</p>\n\n<p>- injustice</p>\n\n<p>- inequality</p>\n\n<p>- tyranny</p>\n\n<p>- poverty</p>\n\n<p>- ignorance</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people perished during the plagues and the suffering was great. Pharaoh remained obstinate. However, with the tenth plague, the death of the first born, a great cry went up throughout Egypt. 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