Top Ten Signs The Gentile You Sold Your Chometz To Might Be Jewish

10. Before painting his Easter egg, he dips it in salt water

9. Observes Lent by giving up leavened bread

8. Easter Basket looks suspiciously like your cute themed Shalach Manos from last month

7. Ordered wife's Easter Bonnet from sheitels.com

6. Easter Feast suddenly relocated to the Fountain Bleu in Miami

5. On Good Friday, wishes people a "Gut G'bentchin Friday"

4. Kicks off Children's Egg hunt with the words: "Find that afikomen!!"

3. Searches bangitout.com for Top Easter pickup lines

2. When you ask him what day of lent it is, he says "Last night was 25"

1. He’s keeping your Chometz

haggadah Section: Motzi-Matzah

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Nirtzah

Next Year in Jerusalem

by Elena Jawitz

Every year at the end of the Seder we say "Next Year in Jerusalem!" But that can't mean physically. It would get overcrowded. Some of us do not have the means to get there. Some of us are too old or young or sick to travel. No. Not physically. Mentally. We need to open our minds and hearts to a level where we can accept who we are as people on every level. These traditions we have were around for thousands...

Koreich

Heschel Quote

by Haggadot

-- Four Questions

Four More Questions - Confronting Our Criminal Justice System

by Temple Israel of Boston

To be read following the chanting of the Four Questions. 1. The Torah demands, “Justice, justice shall you pursue!” (Deut 16:20). What are the obstacles to fulfilling this commandment in the context of criminal justice? 2. The Sage Hillel taught: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow” (BT Shabbat 31a). At the heart of our Passover story is the remembrance of being slaves in Egypt. How do we internalize this narrative of “imprisonment” and express it...

Urchatz

Hand Washing

by Haggadot

Songs

Games

by Shelley Adelson

Games: Repeats from previous years but let's stay sharp! Would you Rather? Eat only maror the rest of your life OR drink only saltwater? Be covered from head to toe in boils OR covered from head to toe in lice? Recline whenever you eat OR dip everything you eat? Die from extreme Marror Heart Burn or from Matzah Choking? Hit the Dog OR Bite the Cat? Still be in Eygpt OR still be in school 100 hours a week? Drink 4...

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Dayeinu: an immersive Experience

by Leor and Deborah

By Rabbi & Dina Brewer Dayeinu is a highly counter-intuitive hymn. Among its fourteen stanzas it proclaims that: Had God taken our ancestors out of Egypt, but not rescued them at the Red Sea, it would have been sufficient. And had God rescued them at the Red Sea, but not nourished them in the dessert, it would have been sufficient. And had God brought them to Sinai, but not given them the Torah, it would have been sufficient. These statements make...

Yachatz

The meaning of Passover

by Passy Family

For us (Ken and Gisela), the story of Pesach is a story of constant struggle at many levels: At the most basic level, struggle between security and certainty of remaining a slave in Egypt and uncertainty and potential freedom of following the path of faith. It is also a struggle between faith and doubt. Am I willing to leave everything I’ve known for the total unknown? Abandoning a known way of life for something unknown? Many Jews in Egypt remained, and...

-- Exodus Story

Our Shpiel

by Smith College Jewish Community

"A Not-So-Serious Passover Play for the Classroom or the Dining Room" by S. Mitchell CHARACTERS: Slave Narrator, G_d (as a voice offstage), Moses, Aaron, Burning Bush, Pharoah SLAVE NARRATOR: In Egypt we Hebrews had a difficult life. All day we worked under the whips of the taskmasters, making bricks and stacking them into giant pyramids, using nothing but our bare hands and a mixture of apples, raisins and nuts to bind the bricks together. We ate nothing but horseradish and drank...

Cover

End of the Seder

by Haggadot

Shulchan Oreich

Passover Around The World Trivia

by Repair the World

Repair the World and Be’chol Lashon invite you to explore how the Jewish community, a multiracial and multiethnic people, can examine our past and present journeys from Exodus to freedom. Ask guests to read the questions aloud and share their own Passover traditions! Question: Why do Jews from Gibraltar sprinkle a little bit of brick dust into their charoset? Answer: To remind them of the bricks that the Israelite slaves were forced to make. Question: What do Hungarian Jews place on...

Maggid - Beginning

Passover Play - a ten minute script for all ages

by Rabbi Daniel Brenner

Here is a kid and adult friendly alternative to for the Maggid section (the Passover story section) of the Haggadah. This short play is in the style of "sedra scenes" -- a contemporary take which makes the story current but stays true to the Exodus narrative. I've written it for large crowds -- so there are 13 parts, but if you have a smaller gathering you can easily double up. LET MY PEOPLE GO!A short play for the seder CAST: NARRATOR,...

Yachatz

YACHATZ

by Rabbi Michael Lerner

Break the middle matzah on the matzah plate. We break the matzah and hide one part (the Aﬁkomen). We recognize that liberation is made by imperfect people, broken, fragmented — so don’t be waiting until you are totally pure, holy, spiritually centered, and psychologically healthy to get involved in tikkun (the healing and repair of the world). It will be imperfect people, wounded healers, who do the healing as we simultaneously work on ourselves. The Bread of Afﬂiction Raise the middle...

-- Ten Plagues

The Ten Plagues - Discussion

by Nate Auerbach

While we’re enjoying in the sweetness of wine, we still show sympathy for those that suffered. The joys of just punishment and the need for restraint are vengeful feelings. For your own discussion later during the meal: The traditional Haggadah questions and debates the number of plagues in terms of impact. In this Seder, let's debate violence vs. nonviolence as a way of getting to freedom. How can we exercise empathy in today’s political climate? How do we show mercy to...

-- Four Children

Four Types of Jews

by Roger Krulak

More clips from Seth Galena

Shulchan Oreich

Top Ten Seder Recipes for the Plagued Cook

by Seth Galena

10. Watercress covered in Blood Orange Vinaigrette 9. Frog Leg Fiesta (great in cholent) 8. Angel Hair with lice, ehr, rice 7. Basil Pesto-lence6. Wild rice 5. Boiled Tongue with fiery gravy drizzle 4. Hail Caesar Salad 3. Low-custard 2. Death by Dark Chocolate1. Hardened hearts of palm

Maggid - Beginning

Top Ten Egyptian Reality TV Shows

by Seth Galena

10. Egyptian Idol: 24 contestants vie to worship a sun god9. No Deal or No Deal - Pharaoh's personal favorite8. $25,000 Pyramid7. The Amazing Race - 600,000+ people journey across a sea, a barren desert to reach a mountain top6. So You Think You Can Walk (like an Egyptian)?5. Egypt's Got Talent! - lot of snake-to-stick acts to follow4. Flavor of Blood3. Project Runaway2. Extreme Makeover Plague Edition- This family's house was filled with frogs, pelted by hail, ravaged by animals,...

Motzi-Matzah

by Seth Galena

10. Before painting his Easter egg, he dips it in salt water9. Observes Lent by giving up leavened bread8. Easter Basket looks suspiciously like your cute themed Shalach Manos from last month7. Ordered wife's Easter Bonnet from sheitels.com6. Easter Feast suddenly relocated to the Fountain Bleu in Miami5. On Good Friday, wishes people a "Gut G'bentchin Friday"4. Kicks off Children's Egg hunt with the words: "Find that afikomen!!"3. Searches bangitout.com for Top Easter pickup lines2. When you ask him what day...