Tonight | Make Your Own Passover Haggadah

TONIGHT
(To the tune of "Tonight," from West Side Story, By Rabbi Dan Liben, Passover, 2000)

Tonight, tonight,
We'll tell a tale tonight,
Of Pharoah, Slaves and God's awesome might;

We'll do it right, with matzah, and maror
and four children: -dull, wicked- and bright!
Tonight, we'll tell our people's story,

The "genut" and then the glory,
And how it came out right.

And when we're through
You'll know you've been freed too
On this Saaay-der night!

Tonight, tonight, we'll drink four cups of wine,
We'll laugh and sing and dine
'till its light;

The tale's not new
And yet it still rings true
It gives meaning -to being -a Jew!

Egyptian masters they did beat us
But Moses he did lead us

From darkness into light;
And soon we'll know
Why God did make it so
On this Saaaay-der night!

haggadah Section: Introduction

Featured clips

Hallel

The Wandering is Over Haggadah - Cup of Elijah

by Jewish Boston

The Cup of Elijah We now refill our wine glasses one last time and open the front door to invite the prophet Elijah to join our seder. In the Bible, Elijah was a fierce defender of God to a disbelieving people. At the end of his life, rather than dying, he was whisked away to heaven. Tradition holds that he will return in advance of messianic days to herald a new era of peace, so we set a place for Elijah...

-- Four Questions

The Four Questions

by Gary Teblum

Four Questions (Robyn Shoulson, Passover 2012 "The Street where you live," from “My Fair Lady”) I have often sat, for a meal before, But there's something here tonight I didn't feel before, And so what has changed That it feels so strange? Why is this meal so different tonight? Where's those fluffy rolls, that I like to eat, That I always like to dip in gravy with the meat? Now there's Matza – flat, Dry and crumbly. Just one way that...

Koreich

A Spoon of Charoses

by Gary Teblum

A Spoon of Charoses (to the tune of “A Spoonful of Sugar” from Mary Poppins) At every seder every year, There is an element of fear When I must eat a bitter herb. And in the moment that I dread, The heat goes to my head, I cough! I sneeze! I whimper and I wheeze! But… (Chorus) A spoon of charoses helps the bitter herb go down, The bitter herb go down, bitter herb go down, Yes, a spoon of charoses...

Urchatz

Urchatz - Wash Your Hands To Prepare for the Seder

by Jewish Boston

Water is refreshing, cleansing, and clear, so it’s easy to understand why so many cultures and religions use water for symbolic purification. We will wash our hands twice during our seder: now, with no blessing, to get us ready for the rituals to come; and then again later, we’ll wash again with a blessing, preparing us for the meal, which Judaism thinks of as a ritual in itself. (The Jewish obsession with food is older than you thought!) To wash your...

-- Ten Plagues

Eser Makkot

by Gary Teblum

Eser Makkot (The Ten Plagues) (Sung to the tune of “Michelle”) (by Gary Teblum) Es-ser Makkot hese are plagues of which we must take note ser Makkot Es-ser Makkot Blood and frogs and lice and cattle disease attle disease Please free them, please free them, please free them that's what God tried to say ut Pharoah wouldn’t sway t was not until that tenth plague came that he’d understand Es-ser Makkot Locusts, hail and darkness o’er the land Over the land...

-- Ten Plagues

Dom, Dom

by Gary Teblum

Dom, Dom, This Plague is Red (sung to the sung of Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead) (by Gary Teblum) Dom, Dom, this plague is red Which bad plague The bloody plague Dom, Dom, the plague of blood is red Pharoah – hear what I said Let them go, or you’ll be dead. Pharoah, the plague of blood is red. The Nile will turn to blood Oh no, that’s worse than flood Yo-ho, yo ho, yo ho Don’t cling, just let...

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Will Will Be Leaving Mitzrayim?

by Gary Teblum

(sung to the tune of “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”) Tonight my back is breaking. My arms and legs are aching. Tonight I cry in pain and misery, Will we be leaving Mitzrayim? I need to know if Your love Is the love I can be sure of. Can I believe my people will be free? Will we be leaving Mitzrayim? Tonight some guy named Moses Tells us that You’re the only one. He says when this night closes We’ll...

Introduction

Kadesh Urchatz

by Liz Alpern

Maggid - Beginning

Four Questions

by Gary Teblum

Bareich

Oh When Elijah Comes To Our Door

by Gary Teblum

Oh When Elijah Comes to Our Door SIng to the tune of Oh When the Saints Go Marching In· OH when Elijah. comes to our door, Oh when Elijah comes to our door We will·open it up for him On when Elijah comes to our door. We'll pour some wine, in Elijah's cup We'll pour some wine; in Elijah's cup We'll all say l'chaim with him As he drinks wine from this cup. He'll bring us peace, and freedom too He'lI...

-- Exodus Story

You Must Let My People Go

by Gary Teblum

(Sung to the tune of “If I Only Had a Brain”) I have come to tell you clearly To let you know sincerely My people suffer so. God has sent me to order Stop the bricks and the mortar You must let my people go. If you don’t let them skedaddle, You’ll have some real sick cattle And a frog will bite your toe. All the common folks and royals Will be breaking out in boils. You must let my people...

Introduction

Favorite Things

by Gary Teblum

Our Passover Things (To be sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things" from the "Sound of Music") Cleaning and cooking and so many dishes Out with the chametz, no pasta, no knishes Fish that's gefilted, horseradish that stings These are a few of our Passover things. Matzah and karpas and chopped up charoset Shankbones and kiddish and yiddish neuroses Tante who kvetches and uncle who sings These are a few of our Passover things. Motzi and moror and trouble with...

Koreich

The Wandering is Over Haggadah - Koreich

by Jewish Boston

Eating a sandwich of matzah and bitter herb | koreich | כּוֹרֵךְ When the Temple stood in Jerusalem, the biggest ritual of them all was eating the lamb offered as the pesach or Passover sacrifice. 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...

Shulchan Oreich

The Wandering is Over Haggadah - Shulchan Oreich

by Jewish Boston

Eating the meal! | shulchan oreich | שֻׁלְחָן עוֹרֵךְ Enjoy! But don’t forget when you’re done we’ve got a little more seder to go, including the final two cups of wine!

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Leaving on a Desert Plane

by Gary Teblum

Leaving on a Desert Plane (Sung to the tune of "Leaving on a Jet Plane") © by Randi and Murray. Spiegel, Passover 2000 All our bags are packed we're ready to go We're standing here outside our doors We dare not wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn is breakin' this early morn' Moses is waiting, he's blowing his horn We're planning our escape so we won't die You'll miss me, as you will see You've been dealt a...

-- Four Questions

Avadim Hayinu

by Jessica Zweig

Kadesh

by Ava Hirschsohn

All Jewish celebrations, from holidays to weddings, include wine as a symbol of our joy – not to mention a practical way to increase that joy. The seder starts with wine and then gives us three more opportunities to refill our cup and drink. The Hebrew word “Kiddush” means sanctification. But it is not the wine we sanctify. Instead, the wine is a symbol of the sanctity, the preciousness, and the sweetness of this moment. Held together by sacred bonds of...

Kadesh

Shehecheyanu

by Jenifer Casey

More clips from Gary Teblum

-- Ten Plagues

Pharoah Got Run Over by the Red Sea

by Gary Teblum

Pharoah Got Run Over By the Red Sea By Gary Teblum (sung to the tune of “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”) Pharoah got run over by the Red Sea. Chasing Israelites who tried to leave. Some might say there’s no such thing as Ha Shem But as for Jewish people, we believe. He'd been telling Moses daily That he would not let them go. But the last plague was the last straw, So he sent them out the door,...

-- Ten Plagues

Those Were The Plagues

by Gary Teblum

Those Were the Plagues words by Doug Ballon to the tune of “Those Were the Days” by Gene Raskin Once upon a time in Pharaoh’s palace, Mo’ and Aaron raised a rod or two. Remember how they brought ten plagues on Egypt, Until the tyrant said that he was through. Chorus: Those were the plagues my friend, we thought they’d bring an end, To hauling bricks we made of straw and clay. Pharaoh was dealt a blow, and let our people...

-- Ten Plagues

Frogs - Children's Song

by Gary Teblum

Basic Children’s Frog Song One day king Pharaoh awoke in his bed, There were frogs in his bed and frogs on his head. Frogs on his nose and frogs on his toes. Frogs here, frogs there, Frogs were jumping everywhere.