{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "this-is-the-bread-of-oppression-1", "title": "This is the Bread of Oppression", "author": "Cara Kupferman", "author_handle": "cara-kupferman-1", "author_initials": "CK", "covertext": "What transforms the bread of oppression into the bread of freedom is the willingness to share it with others. Primo Lev...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p> <em>What transforms the bread of oppression into the bread of freedom is the willingness to share it with others.</em> </p>\n\n<p>Primo Levi survived Auschwitz. In his book,  <em>If This Is a Man</em>, he describes his experiences there. According to Levi, the worst time of all was when the Nazis left in January 1945, fearing the Russian advance. For ten days, they were left alone with only scraps of food and fuel. He writes:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>When the broken window was repaired and the stove began to spread its heat, something seemed to relax in everyone, and at that moment Towarowski (a Franco-Pole of 23, typhus) proposed to the others that each of them offer a slice of bread to us three who had been working [to repair the window]. And so it was agreed.</p>\n\n<p>Only a day before, a similar event would have been inconceivable. The law of the Lager [concentration camps] said: \"eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor,\" and left no room for gratitude. It really meant that the law of the Lager was dead.</p>\n\n<p>It was the first human gesture that occured among us. I believe that that moment can be dated as the beginning of the change by which we who had not died slowly changed from Haftlinge [prisoners] to men again.</p>\n</blockquote>\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 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 alone, we bring freedom into the world, and with freedom, God.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Koren Haggadah p. 25", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 78, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "This is the Bread of Oppression | Passover haggadah by Cara Kupferman", "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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Shabbat is about the presence of God in nature. The festivals are about the presence of God in history. Accordingly, Shabbat was declared holy by God himself at the culmination of creation. God \"blessed the seventh day and made it holy\" (Gen 2:3). The festivals, by contrast, are sanctified by the Jewish people through their determination of the calendar—just as redemption takes place in history when we act in partnership with God. Thus, on Shabbat, we end the Kiddush by saying  <em>mikadesh hashabbat </em> meaning that it is God who sanctifies Shabbat; but on festivals, we say  <em>mikadesh yisrael v'hazmanim</em>, meaning, \"God sanctifies Israel, and Israel in turn sanctifies time.\" Shabbat is holiness from above to below, and the festivals are holiness from below to above.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Koren Haggadah p. 14", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Kadesh", "slug": "kadesh" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 101, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Two Forms of Holiness: Shabbat and Festivals | Passover haggadah by Cara Kupferman", "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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Control over the calendar gave the Israelites the power to determine when the new moon occurred, and thus, when the festivals occur. They were given authority over time. The first command to the Israelites was thus an essential prelude to freedom. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "why-karpas-1", "title": "Why Karpas?", "author": "Cara Kupferman", "author_handle": "cara-kupferman-1", "author_initials": "CK", "covertext": "Dipping karpas in salt water is one of the things we do on the seder night to arouse the curiosity of children so they w...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Dipping karpas in salt water is one of the things we do on the seder night to arouse the curiosity of children so they will ask, \"Why is this night different from all other nights?\" It is one of the two acts referred to in the question \"every other night we do not dip our food at all, but tonight we will dip it twice.\" The other, just before the meal, is the dipping of maror in charoset.</p>\n\n<p>There is symbolic significance in these two acts. The exodus began and ended with acts of dipping. It began when Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery. They dipped his robe in the blood of a slaughtered goat (Gen 37:31) and brought it to Jacob to persuade him that Joseph had been attacked and killed by a wild animal. The sale of Joseph into slavery in Egypt was the beginning of the long process through which the entire family of Jacob traveled to Egypt and eventually became slaves.</p>\n\n<p>The exile ended with the Israelites' taking bunches of hyssop, dipping them in the blood of the paschal offering, and daubing them on the doorframes of their houses (Ex 12:22). God \"passed over\" these houses during the final plague, after which they went free.</p>\n\n<p>The two dippings recall these events. The karpas, itself sweet, is dipped in salt and becomes sour. The maror, itself bitter, is dipped in the sweet charoset and has some of the bitterness removed. These two acts remind us that freedom, which is sweet, becomes sour when we use it to mistreat others. Slavery, which is bitter, is sweetened when collective suffering becomes human solidarity and thus a prelude to freedom.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Koren Haggadah p. 20-21", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 90, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Karpas? | Passover haggadah by Cara Kupferman", "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/why-karpas-1", "og:title": "Why Karpas? | Passover haggadah by Cara Kupferman", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "the-middle-matzah-9", "title": "The Middle Matzah", "author": "Cara Kupferman", "author_handle": "cara-kupferman-1", "author_initials": "CK", "covertext": "Matzah represents two contradictory ideas. At the beginning of the seder, we describe it as \"the bread of oppression our...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Matzah represents two contradictory ideas. At the beginning of the seder, we describe it as \"the bread of oppression our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt.\" Ibn Ezra explains that slaves were given unleavened bread because, being hard, it takes longer to digest. It removes hunger for longer than ordinary bread. Later in the seder, we describe it as the bread the Israelites ate as they were leaving Egypt, in too much of a hurry to allow the dough to rise. We divide the matzah, therefore, to show that it has two symbolisms. Now, at the beginning of the seder, it is the bread of oppression. Later, once we have relived the exodus, it becomes the bread of freedom.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The difference between freedom and slavery lies not in the quality of bread we eat, but in the state of mind in which we eat it.</strong></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Koren Haggadah p. 23", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 80, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Middle Matzah | Passover haggadah by Cara Kupferman", "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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It binds the present to the past and future. It connects one generation to the next. It joins us to our children. Jewish continuity means that each successive generation commits itself to continuing the story. Our past lives on in us.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Koren Haggadah p. 22", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 90, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Word \"Haggadah\" | Passover haggadah by Cara Kupferman", "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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From this, tradition inferred that the story of the exodus from Egypt must be told, wherever possible, in response to the questions asked by a child.</p>\n\n<p>The Torah has two words for inheritance,  <em>yerushah </em> and <i>nachalah</i>, and they represent the two different ways in which a heritage is passed on across the generations. The word  <em>nachalah</em>  comes from the root  <em>nachal</em>, which also means \"river.\" It represents an inheritance that is merely handed down without any work on the part of the recipient, as water flows in a river. <i>Yerushah</i>, by contrast, means active inheritance. Rabbi Samsom Rafael Hirsch pointed out that  <em>lareshet</em>, the verbal form of  <em>yerushah,</em> sometimes means \"conquer\" or \"capture.\" It means actively taking hold of what one has been promised. An inheritance for which one has worked is always more secure than one for which one has not. That is why Judaism encourages children to ask questions. When a child asks, he or she has already begun the work of preparing to receive. Torah is a  <em>yerushah</em>, not a  <em>nachalah.</em>  It needs work on behalf of the child if it is to be passed on across the generations.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Koren Haggadah p. 27", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 82, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "What Makes This Night Unlike All Other Nights? | Passover haggadah by Cara Kupferman", "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 Jews in the ghetto had begun to realize the fate that lay in store for them. They knew that none of them would escape, that the work camps to which they would be transported were in fact factories of death. And at the morning service, the leader of prayer, an old and pious Jew, could finally say the words no longer. He had come to the blessing in which we thank God for not making us slaves. He turned to the congregation and said: \"I cannot say this prayer. How can I thank God for my freedom when I am now a prisoner facing death? Only a madman could say this prayer now.\"</p>\n\n<p>Some members of the congregation turned to the rabbi for advice. Could a Jew in the Kovno ghetto pronounce the blessing thanking God for not having made him a slave? The rabbi replied very simply. \"Heaven forbid that we should abolish the blessing now. Our enemies wish to make us their slaves. But though they control our bodies they do not own our souls. By saying this blessing we show that even here we still see ourselves as free men, temporarily in captiviity, awaiting God's redemption.</p>\n\n<p> <em>The hardest question for faith today is: Where was God in Auschwitz?</em>  Where was God when His faithful servants were being turned to ashes and dying as martyrs in their millions? Where was redemption when the Jews of Europe were gassed and burned and God was silent? That question haunts us on the night of Pesach, because on this night we remmeber that slavery in Egypt was not the only, or even the worst, chapter of Jewish suffering. There have been pharoahs in every generation. And not only Jews have been their victims. There are peoples today who live under the threat of genocide. If God redeems – not in heaven but here on earth – where is God's redemption?</p>\n\n<p>The greatest prophets asked this question and received no answer. Nonetheless there is a fragment of an answer, and it was given by the rabbi in the Kovno ghetto. God has chosen only one dwelling place in this finite, physical universe and that is the human heart. </p>\n\n<p>Where was God in the Kovno ghetto? In the hearts of those who, though they were prisoners in the valley of the shadow of death, insisted on pronouncing a blessing as free human beings. 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