{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "the-power-of-passover-during-a-plague-alana-newhouse-excerpt", "title": "The Power of Passover During a Plague - Alana Newhouse (excerpt)", "author": "Hannah A-B", "author_handle": "andersonbaranger150732", "author_initials": "HA", "covertext": "“The Haggadah is like the theater sets and costumes and reviews of a play, without the actual play,” - Rabbi Noa Kushner...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>“The Haggadah is like the theater sets and costumes and reviews of a play, without the actual play,” - Rabbi Noa Kushner of San Francisco.</p>\n\n<p>“Reading the exodus is for the already free.” -author's childhood rabbi</p>\n\n<p>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.”</p>\n\n<p>The text of the Haggadah is not a retelling of the liberation story itself but a record of agreements and disagreements among its interpreters, because it is not the God-driven part of the story that we should be focused on but the human-driven one. God will come to help when God comes to help; the question is what we do between now and then.</p>\n\n<p>[. . . ] we will do what millions of Jews have done before us: manifest our hope for liberation.</p>\n\n<p>That is our obligation, and our privilege. 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During Passover we tell stories both of freedom from and freedom to. Share a time you experienced a lack either or both of these types of freedom.</p>\n\n<p>3. The Mishnah tells us that in every generation a person must view themselves as though they personally left Egypt. This directive is especially important this year – when we’re seeing the largest number of refugees in Europe since World War II – refugees whose travels are narrated in such detail on social media and by journalists. The phrase “never again” has recently appeared again and again across the internet, in connection with the war in Ukraine. What is happening in Ukraine is not the Holocaust as nothing can compare. But at a time when there will soon be no more Holocaust survivors and it will become the next generation’s responsibility to carry the narratives forward, what do you think \"never again\" means in practice?</p>\n\n<p>4. 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