{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "urchatz-wash-your-hands-prepare-seder-16", "title": "Urchatz- Wash Your Hands to Prepare for the Seder", "author": "Jessica Jacobs", "author_handle": "jessica-jacobs", "author_initials": "JJ", "covertext": "Water is refreshing, cleansing, and clear, so it’s easy to understand why so many cultures and religions use water for s...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105787/conversions/profile10153398286406174-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105787/profile10153398286406174", "body": "<p>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. 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I will deliver you from bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great judgements. I will take you to be my people and I will be your God\" (Exodus 6: 6-7).</p>\n\n<p>Tonight we dedicate our four cups of wine to the avenues through which we each find strength and freedom in our lives. This first cup of wine we dedicate to the power of self. The power of self love, self advocacy, self worth, self trust, and self love. Please take a moment to think about the ways in which you find strength within yourself.</p>\n\n<p><strong>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן</strong></p>\n\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.</p>\n\n<p>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.</p>\n\n<p>In Judaism we are obsessed with marking time. We mark time through holidays, rituals, prayers, and even types of food. 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With this final cup, we think of the strength of this community. The strength we find in believing in the power of people, the power of love, the power of something greater than ourselves, and the power of working to make the world a better place.</p>\n\n<p>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן:</p>\n\n<p>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.</p>\n\n<p>We praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "one-day-3", "title": "One Day", "author": "Jessica Jacobs", "author_handle": "jessica-jacobs", "author_initials": "JJ", "covertext": "Sometimes I lay Under the moon And thank God I'm breathing Then I pray Don't take me soon 'Cause I am here for a reason...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105787/conversions/profile10153398286406174-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/105787/profile10153398286406174", "body": "<p>Sometimes I lay<br />\nUnder the moon<br />\nAnd thank God I'm breathing<br />\nThen I pray<br />\nDon't take me soon<br />\n'Cause I am here for a reason</p>\n\n<p>Sometimes in my tears I drown<br />\nBut I never let it get me down<br />\nSo when negativity surrounds<br />\nI know some day it'll all turn around because...</p>\n\n<p>All my life I've been waiting for<br />\nI've been praying for<br />\nFor the people to say<br />\nThat we don't wanna fight no more<br />\nThere will be no more wars<br />\nAnd our children will play<br />\nOne day (x6)</p>\n\n<p>It's not about<br />\nWin or lose<br />\n'Cause we all lose<br />\nWhen they feed on the souls of the innocent<br />\nBlood-drenched pavement<br />\nKeep on moving though the waters stay raging</p>\n\n<p>In this maze you can lose your way (your way)<br />\nIt might drive you crazy but don't let it faze you, no way (no way)</p>\n\n<p>Sometimes in my tears I drown (I drown)<br />\nBut I never let it get me down (get me down)<br />\nSo when negativity surrounds (surrounds)<br />\nI know some day it'll all turn around because...</p>\n\n<p>All my life I've been waiting for<br />\nI've been praying for<br />\nFor the people to say<br />\nThat we don't wanna fight no more<br />\nThere will be no more wars<br />\nAnd our children will play<br />\nOne day (x6)</p>\n\n<p>One day this all will change<br />\nTreat people the same<br />\nStop with the violence<br />\nDown with the hate</p>\n\n<p>One day we'll all be free<br />\nAnd proud to be<br />\nUnder the same sun<br />\nSinging songs of freedom like<br />\nOne day (x6)</p>\n\n<p>All my life I've been waiting for<br />\nI've been praying for<br />\nFor the people to say<br />\nThat we don't wanna fight no more<br />\nThere will be no more wars<br />\nAnd our children will play<br />\nOne day (x6)</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 240, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "One Day | Passover haggadah by Jessica Jacobs", "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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Our bellies are full, we have had several glasses of wine, we have told stories and sung songs, and now it is time for the evening to come to a close. At the end of the seder, we honor the tradition of declaring, “Next year in Jerusalem!”</p>\n\n<p>For us, \"Next year in Jerusalem!\" is a symbol, not necessarily about the physical location of Jerusalem, but a symbol of hope, holiness, and the joining together of different communities. In this context, Jerusalem is not a physical place but a metaphor for the spiritual and emotional place where we want to be in the year to come.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Next Year in a More Just World</strong></u> by American Jewish World Service</p>\n\n<p>The traditional aspiration, \"Next Year in Jerusalem,\" is our people's millennia-old hope for redemption. At AJWS, our yearning takes the form of hope and action for a more just world.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Join us, this year, in helping achieve...</strong></p>\n\n<p>Peace in societies torn by war</p>\n\n<p>Freedom from bigotry and oppression</p>\n\n<p>Equality for minorities shunned by prejudice and hatred</p>\n\n<p>Respect for the aspirations and humanity of women and girls</p>\n\n<p>Acceptance for people persecuted for who they are or whom they love</p>\n\n<p>Sustenance for communities living in hunger</p>\n\n<p>A safe harbor for refugees and survivors of violence</p>\n\n<p>And the promise of dignity and human rights for all</p>\n\n<p>Together, with those around this <em>Seder</em> table and with our global family connected by our collective pursuit of justice, we pray: \"Next year in a more just world.\" And through our actions from this Passover to the next, let us make this dream a reality.</p>\n\n<p><strong>לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בִּירוּשָׁלָֽיִם</strong></p>\n\n<p><em>L’shana haba-ah biy’rushalayim</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Where do you hope to be in the coming year?</em></strong></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Nirtzah", "slug": "nirtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 251, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Nirtzah- Where do you hope to be? | Passover haggadah by Jessica Jacobs", "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 Passover story and celebration entered the memory stream of Christianity as well, through the Palm Sunday demonstrations of a group of Jews who came to ancient Jerusalem one spring, part of the general Jewish ferment against the Roman Empire. This particular group was led by Jesus, waving palm branches as a symbol of resistance. It entered Christianity more deeply still through the teachings of Jesus in the Last Supper, which seems to have been a Passover Seder.</p>\n\n<p>Still later, Islam welcomed Moses as a prophet, as it is written:</p>\n\n<p> <em>“In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful... We narrate to you from the history of Moses and Pharaoh in all verity, for those who believe. The Pharaoh became high and mighty in the land, and divided the people into different classes. He impoverished one class, slaying its males and sparing its women, for he was indeed a tyrant. We [God] wished him to favor those who were weak in the land and make them leaders and heirs and establish them in the country.”</em> </p>\n\n<p>(Al-Quran, 28: 1-6; Ahmed Ali translation)</p>\n\n<p>In modern times, the experience of slavery for African-Americans and their hope of liberation were crystallized into dozens of songs and thousands of sermons about the Exodus of ancient Israelites from slavery.</p>\n\n<p>In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King was planning to take part in a Passover Seder with the family of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who marched and prayed and struggled alongside him against racism and militarism in America. But ten days before the Seder, Dr. King was murdered, called across a different river to a different Land of Promise. That day was 50 years ago today on April 4, 1968.</p>\n\n<p>His death called forth a Black uprising in many American cities, followed by the U.S. Army’s armed occupation of many inner-city communities, including my neighborhood in Washington DC.</p>\n\n<p>Walking past the troops as I prepared for that Passover 50 years ago, I was overwhelmed to find myself feeling and thinking, “This is Pharaoh’s Army!”</p>\n\n<p>That experience renewed and transformed my own understanding of the Seder. I felt myself called to write a Freedom Seder that would celebrate the freedom struggles of Black America and of other peoples alongside the Jewish tale of liberation.</p>\n\n<p>Now it is we who renew the Seder, rebirthing the Telling of freedom itself as the Telling rebirths us.</p>\n\n<p>Forty nine years after the first Freedom Seder, the profound questions Dr. King raised in his Riverside Church speech exactly one year before his death—militarism, racism, materialism as the triplets of danger corrupting American society—have risen before us again, as he warned they might. The link between constant warfare abroad and constant shortfalls in meeting human needs at home has become even clearer. Even larger numbers of people have lost their jobs and stand on the edge of the pit of poverty.</p>\n\n<p>Forty nine years after the first Freedom Seder, new Pharaohs have arisen. The institutional Pharaohs of our day are pressing down not just one people, one community, or another, but all the peoples on our planet and the web of life itself. In this Freedom Seder, we address Dr. Martin Luther King’s warning about “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism,” which have threatened the very earth that sustains us all. For the Passover story reminds us: not only do new Pharaohs arise in every generation; so also do new grass-roots movement to free ourselves from these new pharaohs.</p>\n\n<p>Today as well, we face Plagues that trouble the earth and all humanity. Who and what are the institutional pharaohs in our time? What are the destructive Plagues of our own generation? What can we do to bring Ten Blessings, Ten Healings, on the earth in our own lifetimes? 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