{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "tzafun-–-afikomen", "title": "Tzafun – The Afikomen", "author": "Crystal Feder", "author_handle": "crystalsalazar148644", "author_initials": "CF", "covertext": "Tzafun – The Afikomen Sources: Jewish Boston and Elie Wiesel The playfulness of finding the afikomen reminds us that we...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>Tzafun </strong><strong>–</strong><strong> The Afikomen</strong></p>\n\n<p>Sources: Jewish Boston and Elie Wiesel</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The playfulness of finding the afikomen reminds us that we balance our solemn memories of slavery with a joyous celebration of freedom.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we no longer eat the paschal lamb, for the Temple has been destroyed, it is the taste of the afikomen which must remain with us for the rest of the evening. 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We eat only matzah to highlight the tale of our hasty exodus from Egypt.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>We eat bitter herbs so that we too may sample at least a taste of bitterness.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>We dip our bitter herbs twice, once in salt water and once in sweet charoset, as we remember both the salty tears of our ancestors and the sweetness of their hope for freedom.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>As a symbol of our comfort, we recline and eat as free men and women.</strong></p>\n\n<p>This night is different from all the other nights because once we were slaves to the Pharaoh in Egypt, but Adonai, our God, took us out with a mighty hand and outstretched arm. If Adonai had not brought our ancestors out of the Egypt, then we, and our children, and our children's children would still be slaves in the land of Egypt. 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Here we are, gathered to celebrate the oldest continuously practiced ritual in the Western world, to retell what is arguably the best known of all stories, to take part in the most widely practiced Jewish holiday. Here we are as last year, and as we hope to be next year. Here we are, as night descends in succession over all of the Jews of the world, with a book in front of us.</p>\n\n<p>Jews have a special relationship with books. In the absence of a stable homeland, Jews have made their home in books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user’s manual, timeline, poem, or palimpsest – and yet it is all of these things. The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human life – <em>our lives</em> – dignity.</p>\n\n<p>Here we are: Individuals remembering a shared past in pursuit of a shared destiny. The seder is a protest against despair. The universe might appear deaf to our fears and hopes, but we are not – so we gather, and share them, and pass them down. We have been waiting for this moment for thousands of years – more than one hundred generations of Jews have been here as we are – and we will continue to wait for it. 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As our family expanded and as our definition of family expanded, we moved the ritual dinner from our dining room to our more spacious, mildewed basement. At each setting was a Haggadah that my parents had assembled by photocopying favorite passages from other Haggadot and, when the Foers finally got Internet access, by printing online sources. Why is this night different from all others? 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In Jewish tradition, lighting candles and saying a blessing over them marks a time of transition, from the day that is ending to the one that is beginning, from ordinary time to sacred time. 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The steps represent the <em>Shir Ha'ma’alos</em> in Psalms - the fifteen songs of ascent. Our Seder follows a fifteen-step ascent.</p>\n\n<p><strong>The SEDER of the SEDER</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Kadesh</strong> - We say the Kiddush - the first cup of wine</p>\n\n<p><strong>Ur'chatz</strong> - We wash our hands</p>\n\n<p><strong>Karpas </strong>- We dip a vegetable in salt water, and say a blessing</p>\n\n<p><strong>Yachatz </strong>- We break the middle matzah, and hide the larger half, the Afikomen</p>\n\n<p><strong>Maggid </strong>- We tell the story of Passover, including the four questions, and the second cup of wine</p>\n\n<p><strong>Rachtzah </strong>- We wash our hands with a blessing</p>\n\n<p><strong>Motzi - </strong>We say the blessing for bread</p>\n\n<p><strong>Matzah </strong>- We say the blessing for matzah</p>\n\n<p><strong>Maror </strong>- We dip bitter herbs in charoset, and say a blessing</p>\n\n<p><strong>Korech </strong>- We eat a sandwich of matzah and bitter herbs</p>\n\n<p><strong>Shulchan Orech</strong> - We eat the festive meal</p>\n\n<p><strong>Tzafoon </strong>- We eat the Afikomen</p>\n\n<p><strong>Barech </strong>- We say the blessings after the meal, say the blessing over the third cup of wine. 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The Passover seder is conducted in an orderly fashion, with each ritual performed at a certain time, in a certain way, according to thousands of years of tradition This is surprising, as the Jewish people do not have a history of being particularly well organized. Look around the table. Soon things will be spilled. You might be sitting with people you do not know very well or do not like very much, so your own emotional state is somewhat disordered. Nobody likes everything served at the Passover dinner, so there will be chaos within people’s plates, and the room is likely to be either too hot or too cold for someone, creating a chaos of discomfort. Perhaps there is someone who has not yet been seated, even as the seder is beginning, because they are “checking the food,” a phrase which here means sneaking a few bites when they’re supposed to be participating in the ceremony.</p>\n\n<p>This is as it should be. 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According to Exodus, when the Torah was given at Sinai, the Israelites accepted its commandments without first hearing what they would be. They declared, “Naaseh venishmah. We will do and we will hear.” But even the simple son of the Haggadah asks, “What is this?” when presented with the story of the Exodus.</p>\n\n<p>Were the Israelites at Sinai so naïve that they were like the son who does not even know how to ask? Or did they knowingly decide to take a leap of faith and exchange the yoke of slavery in Egypt for what the rabbis call “the yoke of heaven” – no questions asked? And in so doing did they give up the freedom that they had just acquired in leaving Egypt?</p>\n\n<p>The wicked son of the Haggadah believes in freedom, and so many of us are drawn to him. Freedom, for the wicked son, means denying that the laws of the Torah affirmed by the wise son apply to him. But that is not all. 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He advised the Pharaoh to build storehouses to store the grain, which Pharaoh thought was a tremendous idea, because up to that point he had been sorting the grain in the bathroom and it was disgusting. The Pharaoh was so pleased that he invited Joseph to stay in Egypt and bring his relatives to hang out also. They became known as the Israelites, and they multiplied and prospered in various fields, although generally not team sports.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years passed, and eventually the Pharaoh died. (He was buried in the pyramid, which by then the Egyptians jokingly referred to as “the Big Stone Soup.”) A new Pharaoh took over, and he turned out to be a real schmuck. He was afraid that the Israelites would become too  powerful, so he made them into slaves.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slavery totally sucked. The Pharaoh made the Israelites work from sunrise to sunset with no days off, not even Labor Day. 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So God brought ten plagues upon Egypt, and each time, the Pharaoh got scared and promised to free the Israelites. But, he did not, because in addition to being a schmuck, he had the IQ of a glazed doughnut. It was only after the tenth and scariest plague that it finally dawned on his tiny Pharaoh brain that unless he wanted God to turn the entire Egyptian population into sea urchins or something, he’d better let the Israelites go.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>We fill our cups with a meh wine that we do not mind spilling to remember how happy we were when this happened. But, we are not totally happy, because we are Jewish, and thus we can never be truly happy except when the Knicks win the title. Also we feel a little bad for the Egyptians, because it’s not like they had a democracy and said, “Hey, let’s elect a moron to be the Pharaoh!” So instead of drinking all the wine or even a nice martini right now, we dip our fingers into our cups and spatter wine droplets all over a perfectly good tablecloth, which will have to be dry-cleaned – but go ahead, it’s fine – as we say the names of the plagues: Blood, locusts, frogs, lice, boils, humidity, nervousness, Jerry Lewis, gluten, constipation.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Commentary from Judy Feder. In the election of 2016, the people of the United States, who lived – at least at that time – in a democracy, elected an evil moron to be president. But, not all of them elected him; in fact, not even half of the people voted for him. 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Shortly after letting the Israelites leave Egypt, the Pha...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><strong>Meanwhile, Back at the Red Sea</strong></p>\n\n<p>Source: <em>For This We Left Egypt?</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after letting the Israelites leave Egypt, the Pharaoh realized he had made a terrible mistake. Sure, killer angels had just slaughtered a large percentage of his people’s children, and the streets were a disgusting stew of blood, frogs, and locusts, and it was hailing and dark, and everyone had lice and boils. But on the other hand, the Pharaoh had just lost his free labor force, to say nothing of what the Israelites’ departure was going to do to the Egyptian entertainment industry. Also, the Pharaoh was a huge fan of gefilte fish, which his Egyptian chefs couldn’t seem to get right no matter hard he had them flogged.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So Pharaoh sent his army to bring the Israelites back. His soldiers caught up with them on the banks of the Sea of Reeds. When they saw the Egyptian army, the Israelites were afraid and cried out, “Oh crap! Boy, are we royally screwed now? No pun intended!”</p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they were wrong, for at that moment, Adonai told Moses to lift his rod. Moses was briefly uncomfortable with this command, but then he remembered that he was carrying a walking stick. 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