{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "social-justice-themes-within-the-haggadah", "title": "Social Justice Themes Within the Haggadah", "author": "Leor and Deborah", "author_handle": "leorharel78276", "author_initials": "LA", "covertext": "Themes of Social Justice within the Haggadah Source 1 - Ha Lachma Anya – Pesach Haggadah הא לחמא עניא די אכלו אבהתנא באר...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><b>Themes of Social Justice within the Haggadah</b></p>\n\n<p><b>Source 1 - Ha Lachma Anya – Pesach Haggadah</b></p>\n\n<p>הא לחמא עניא די אכלו אבהתנא בארעא דמצרים. כל דכפין ייתי ויכל. כל דצריך ייתי ויפסח. השתא הכא. לשנה הבאה בארעא דישראל. השתא עבדי. לשנה הבאה בני חורין</p>\n\n<p>This is the bread of affliction that our ancestors ate in Egypt. Let all who are hungry come and eat. Let all who are in need come and celebrate Passover. Now we are here. Next year in the land of Israel. Now we are slaves. Next year we will be free.</p>\n\n<p>Questions:</p>\n\n<ol>\n\t<li>What is Bread of Affliction (Lechem Oni)?</li>\n\t<li>Is there anything in this passage that does not make sense?</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p><b>Source 2 - Maarechet Heidenheim </b></p>\n\n<p>Why does the Haggadah say, \"This is the bread of poverty which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt\" instead of \"This is the bread of poverty which our ancestors ate when they left Egypt?\"</p>\n\n<p><b>Source 3 - Maarechet Heidenheim </b></p>\n\n<p>I learned the following explanation from my grandfather, Rabbi Abraham Naphtali Hertz Sheier. The Zohar explains that the verse, \"Do not eat of a stingy man's bread,\" (Proverbs 23:6) applies to Joseph's brothers. The Egyptians were resentful of them because they were invited to eat at Joseph's table during the years of famine. (They were resentful of Joseph and his brothers for not sharing the great wealth of Egypt.) And so, the Egyptians punished them during the exile by feeding them \"a stingy man's bread.\" Another term for this is \"lechem oni.\" We hint at this explanation when we say, \"This is <b>like</b> the <i>lechem oni</i>, the miserly bread, which our ancestors at in the land of Egypt.\" That is, when the tribes were in Egypt at Joseph's table. (The miserliness of Joseph's brothers) caused the Egyptians to feed us lechem oni. Today we eat <i>lechem oni</i> as a reminder of what happened in Egypt. <b>We must repair our ancestors' sin, and show that we do not act in a miserly fashion. By behaving with hospitality and generosity, we show that we are no longer miserly.</b></p>\n\n<p><b>Source 4 - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Pesach Haggadah, pp. 22-25</b></p>\n\n<p>This is a strange invitation: \"This is the bread of oppression our fathers ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come in and eat.\" What hospitality is it to offer the hungry the taste of suffering? In fact, though, this is a profound insight into the nature of slavery and freedom. As noted, matza represents two things: it is the food of slaves, and also the bread eaten by the Israelites as they left Egypt in liberty. What transforms the bread of oppression into the bread of freedom is <i>the willingness to share it with others....</i></p>\n\n<p>Sharing food is the first act through which slaves become free human beings. One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others. But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has already shown himself to be capable of fellowship and faith, the two things from which hope is born. That is why we begin the seder by inviting others to join us. Bread shared is no longer the bread of oppression. Reaching out to others, giving help to the needy and companionship to those who are along, we bring freedom into the world, and with freedom, God.</p>\n\n<p><b>Source 5 - Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 99b</b></p>\n\n<p>“Even the poorest person in Israel may not eat until he reclines, and they must not give him less than four cups of wine.”</p>\n\n<p><b>Source 6 - Babylonian Talmud, Pesachim 115b</b></p>\n\n<p>Shmuel said that the phrase: “The bread of affliction [<i>leḥem oni</i>]” (Deuteronomy 16:3) means bread over which one answers [<i>onim</i>] matters, i.e., one recites the Haggadah over <i>matza</i>. That was also taught in a <i>baraita</i>: <i>Leḥem oni</i> is bread over which one answers many matters.</p>\n\n<p><b>Source 7 - Affliction Beyond Hunger</b><br />\n<i>by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice</i></p>\n\n<p>In our city today, some of our neighbors are forced to work in order to receive their meager welfare benefits, which barely enable them to survive. 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Name one meaningful piece of news. </p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Avadim Hayinu: Our Slavery</strong></u></p>\n\n<p>Identify the problem. What enslaves you today? What's holding you back from being freer, happy, and creative?</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Dayenu: Enough</strong></u> </p>\n\n<p>Identify possible solutions. What can you do to help end your enslavement and reduce that which holds you back from more freedom and creativity? What will help you fight the Pharaohs within? ​This round can be about personal or societal slavery and oppressions.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>L'shana Ha'baa: Future Vision - Next Year.</strong></u></p>\n\n<p>We can't end the seder till we all commit to making the world a better place, with less oppression and more freedom. What is your vision of a freer world? 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In fact, the Mishnah (Pesahim 10:5) teaches us that: בכל דור ודור חייב אדם לראות את עצמו כאילו הוא יצא ממצרים In every generation a person is obligated to see themselves as if they left Egypt. The seder presents us with the obligation of identifying with the generation that left Egypt and internalizing that experience. And through that internalization, we come to feel the redemption as if it was our own as well to - לראות את עצמו.</p>\n\n<p>Further, the reliving of the story of the Exodus affords us the opportunity see one’s true self. It is only when we are able to see ourselves clearly, that we are able to be redeemed. But perhaps the only way we are able to see ourselves, is when we are truly able to see those around us. 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And coming to Sinai is a blessing in itself, for who could possible anticipate the Giving of the Torah?</p>\n\n<p>Dayeinu is an ingenious hymn because, by placing us squarely <em>in</em> the story, it allows us to experience what our ancestor’s would have felt as the events unfolded in real time.</p>\n\n<p>It does for liturgy what Faulkner, Joyce, and Wolf did for literature.</p>\n\n<p>Dayeinu invites us to be grateful for the blessings in our lives, as and when they unfold. We have no way of knowing how our story is going to end, much less what next year, or even tomorrow, will look like. 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We respond with a self-righteous sneer:</p>\n\n<p>“Because of this, God did [things] for me, when I left Egypt (Exodus 13:8) for <em>me</em> but not for <em>you</em>, if you were there, you would not have been saved!”</p>\n\n<p>If our intention is to shut this child up, that will certainly do the trick. He is unlikely to ever ask a religious question again. He might even get up and leave the Seder altogether considering how we have just excluded him. 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A little bit of technical information about the paschal offering is enough to satisfy this son’s curiosity.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Could it be that we label this child as wise because he makes <em>us </em>feel wise?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>His brother however asks a higher order question. He is less interested in the specifics of the ritual, he wants to know its underlying purpose and value. His question exists <em>outside</em> the system.</p>\n\n<p>He is essentially saying “Don’t fob me off with details, I want the bigger picture.” “What is Passover, Jewish peoplehood, Judaism, all about?  Tell me why it is all so important? Tell me why I should care?” This is not a question easily answered. It catches us off guard. Do we even have an adequate answer to this penetrating question? We’ve spent the past week or more preparing for the Seder, we’ve sorted out all the technical details, we know exactly how much matzah to eat, what to recite, when to raise our cup of wine. 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