Urchatz: Washing of the Hands

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We commemorate this by removing all bread and bread products from our home during Passover.\n\nSUNFLOWER SEEDS \nSunflowers are the national flower of Ukraine, and have become a potent symbol of resistance to the recent Russian military invasion. They symbolize unity, life and well-being, and can be seen across the countryside. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, sunflowers were widely grown in the area to help remove radiation contaminants from the soil. And in 1996, sunflowers were planted in celebration of Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament. The sunflower seeds represent solidarity with the people of Ukraine.\n\nELIJAH'S CUP \nThe fifth ceremonial cup of wine poured during the Seder. It is left untouched in honor of Elijah, who, according to tradition, will arrive one day as an unknown guest to herald the advent of the Messiah. 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Touch only those \nto whom you commit your life.\n\nCenter down.\n\nAnd when your body has become still, \nreach out with your heart.\n\nKnow that we are connected \nin ways that are terrifying and beautiful.\n\n(You could hardly deny it now.)\n\nKnow that our lives \nare in one another’s hands.\n\n(Surely, that has come clear.)\n\nDo not reach out your hands.\n\nReach out your heart.\n\nReach out your words.\n\nReach out all the tendrils \nof compassion that move, invisibly, \nwhere we cannot touch.\n\nPromise this world your love — \nfor better or for worse, \nin sickness and in health, \nso long as we all shall live.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Lynn Ungar (h/t Rabbi Sharon Brous)", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/237505/CoronavirusMask4.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/237505/conversions/CoronavirusMask4-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 126, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Pandemic | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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When [we have] been struck with a plague that prevents so many of us from gathering in physical contact, how ought we react?\n\nUpholding the cautionary measures decreed by health officials and authorities must be seen then as fulfilling the highest religious commandment: pikuach nefesh<a href=\"https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/saving-a-life-pikuach-nefesh/\">,</a> saving human life. If you have symptoms of illness, including fever, coughing, stomach bug or any other sickness, it is a mitzvah to stay in quarantine.\n\nIt was Yom Kippur 1846 — the cholera epidemic was at its height — when Rabbi Yisrael Salanter allegedly rose to the pulpit, washed his hands publicly and made a blessing as he ate bread on our calendar’s most sacred day. The Jewish community feared trespassing communal and religious norms then, but Rabbi Salanter reminded the Jewish community: In light of life-threatening illness, eating food on Yom Kippur wasn’t breaking the Torah law, it was upholding it.\n\nWhen confronted with life or death, Jews must always emphatically choose life. This has been the Jewish way since the beginning of time.\n\n What rules should (and what rules are) we suspending and modifying during this time? \n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, asher kidshanu bemitvotav vetzivanu al netilat yadayim. \n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֱלֹֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶך הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ עַל נְטִילַת יָדָיִּם.\n\nBlessed are You ETERNAL our God, Master of time and space, who has sanctified us with commandments and instructed us regarding lifting up our hands.\n\nWE WASH OUR HANDS (FOR THE SECOND TIME)", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Rabbi Avram Mlotek", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/251000/WaterJug2.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/251000/conversions/WaterJug2-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Rachtzah", "slug": "rachtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 109, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Hand Washing: Pikuach Nefesh | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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As we prepare to wash our hands -- not just a public health measure, but also a sacred ritual -- let us not wash our hands of the responsibility to combat the noxious blame game all too present in society today. We've edited some of Henry Abramson's comments on this topic:\n\nMaybe I’m paranoid, but I can’t help feel uneasy with the amount of attention the New York Jewish community is receiving because of the first confirmed cases of the coronavirus. We are hardly first: Asians around the globe already faced prejudice because of the epidemic’s origins in Wuhan, China.... [This ominous fearmongering] makes me think of the \"hidden hand\" propaganda of the 1940s — and also the long, horrible history of anti-Semitic charges that Jews spread disease. I’m sure it’s nothing — I’m just starting to feel a little queasy, that’s all.\n\nGiven Jewish history, it’s vital to avoid anti-Semitic [ and other racist ] tropes about the spread of disease — and sobering to know the consequences when we don’t. \n\nManetho, an Egyptian priest who lived 2,300 years ago, was probably the first to level this charge against Jews. He retold the Exodus with rather creative flair, arguing that the Jews weren’t redeemed from slavery with signs and wonders — they were, he claimed, expelled by the Egyptians because they were a source of contagion. Not unlike the Nazis, who justified the walling off of the ghettos as a prophylactic against the spread of typhus, Manetho sought to associate Jews with the silent spread of the dreaded plague, as invisible as it is unstoppable.\n\nManetho’s ethnocentric, sour-grapes reading of Jewish history might have had some credibility if there were any reason to assume that Jews were less susceptible to disease than non-Jews. This widely held myth is especially associated with stories of the Black Death, the horrific plague that ravaged Europe from 1348 to 1351. \n\nI’ve read all kinds of wishful thinking on this topic: Some hold that Jews dodged the plague because they were inherently cleaner (they do wash their hands sans soap before eating bread, but bathing in the 14th century was at most a weekly affair). Also, since there’s an assumed historical tradition for Jews not keeping dogs as pets, the Jewish cats kept the rats away, along with their plague-bearing fleas. These are wonderful, heartwarming theories. It’s just too bad there’s no historical evidence to support them.\n\nIf anything, Jews tended to suffer from plagues at a greater rate than the population at large, particularly because they were far more urbanized than the peasantry.... But that hardly stopped anyone from blaming the Jews for the Black Death, notorious for its fatality rate approaching 50% of the infected. On the contrary, unhinged conspiracy theories circulated widely, building on centuries-old charges that Jews were poisoning wells out of a deep-seated misanthropy.\n\n...it’s not always about the virus itself. It’s what might happen after the virus.\n\nWhy do so many seem to blame others and other groups of people for pandemics? What's the best way to combat this?\n\nWE NOW WASH OUR HANDS", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Henry Abramson (JTA)", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/237394/Hand-Washing-Graphic.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/237394/conversions/Hand-Washing-Graphic-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Urchatz", "slug": "urchatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 148, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Hand Washing: Plagues | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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All interpretations welcome!\n\nROASTED SHANKBONE (Or Interpretation Thereof) \nOne of the most striking symbols of Passover is the roasted lamb shankbone, which commemorates the lamb sacrifice made the night the ancient Hebrews fled Egypt. Please share the way that you interpreted a bone! \n\nMAROR (Something Bitter or Spicy) \nBitter and spicy things bring tears to the eyes and recall the bitterness of slavery. The Seder refers to the slavery in Egypt, but we are called to look at our own bitter enslavements.\n\nCHAROSET (Something Sweet or Fruity) \nThere’s nothing further from maror than charoset (“cha-ROH-set”), traditionally the sweet salad of apples, nuts, wine, and cinnamon that represents the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves to make bricks.\n\nKARPAS (A Vegetable) \nKarpas, usually parsley, symbolizes the freshness of spring. (Or the durability -- if canned or frozen -- of our spring spirit).\n\nSALT WATER (Salt + Water) \nSalt water symbolizes the tears and sweat of enslavement, though paradoxically, it’s also a symbol for purity, springtime, and the sea. Combine your salt and water to make salt water.\n\nORANGE (Something with Seeds or that is a Seed) \nThe tradition of putting an orange on the seder plate in is a response to a myth about rabbi who told a young girl that a woman belongs on a bimah (where the torah is read) as much as an orange on a Seder plate. The orange is now said to be a symbol of the fruitfulness of all Jews, whatever their sexuality or gender identity.\n\nEGG (Breakfast Item) \nThe egg is a symbol in many different cultures, usually signifying springtime and renewal. Here it stands in place of one of the sacrificial offerings which was performed in the days of the Second Temple. Breakfast items are also a sign of the beginning of a new day -- and therefore also renewal.\n\nMATZAH (Or Interpretation Thereof) \nMatzah is the unleavened bread we eat to remember that when the jews fled Egypt, they didn’t even have time to let the dough rise on their bread. We commemorate this by removing all bread and bread products from our home during Passover.\n\nELIJAH'S CUP \nThe fifth ceremonial cup of wine poured during the Seder. It is left untouched in honor of Elijah, who, according to tradition, will arrive one day as an unknown guest to herald the advent of the Messiah. In this way the Seder dinner not only commemorates the historical redemption from Egyptian bondage of the Jewish people but reminds us of the future.\n\nMIRIAM'S CUP \nAnother relatively new Passover tradition is that of Miriam’s cup. The cup is filled with water and placed next to Elijah’s cup. Miriam was a prophetess and also the sister of Moses. After the exodus when the Israelites are wandering through the desert, just as Hashem gave them Manna to eat, legend says that a well of water followed Miriam and it was called ‘Miriam’s Well’. 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Some say the cups represent our matriarchs—Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah—whose virtue caused our liberation us from slavery. Another interpretation is that the cups represent the Four Worlds: physicality, emotions, thought, and essence. Still a third interpretation is that the cups represent the four promises of liberation made in the Torah: I will bring you out, I will deliver you, I will redeem you, I will take you to be my people (Exodus 6:6-7.) The four promises, in turn, have been interpreted as four stages on the path of liberation: becoming aware of oppression, opposing oppression, imagining alternatives, and accepting responsibility to act.\n\n Pour first cup of wine and raise cups \n\nGenerations ago our ancestors responded to the call for freedom. In every generation, we ought to view ourselves as though we have been personally liberated from slavery. Today that call continues, obligating us to work for an era when all people will be liberated. Let us drink the first cup of wine to celebrate the liberation of peoples from tyranny.\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן \n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine. \nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, \nשֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה \n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, \nshe-hechiyanu v’key’manu v’higiyanu lazman hazeh. \nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, \nwho has kept us alive, raised us up, and brought us to this happy moment.\n\nDRINK THE FIRST GLASS OF WINE", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Amy Nathan", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/237680/whitewine.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/237680/conversions/whitewine-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Kadesh", "slug": "kadesh" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 105, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Kadesh: First Cup | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/237680/conversions/whitewine-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "four-questions-2020-1", "title": "Four Questions (2020)", "author": "Sophia + Jacob", "author_handle": "sophiacharan150859", "author_initials": "SJ", "covertext": "Before the telling of the Passover story, a song from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in honor of Adam Schlesinger (victim to the Co...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "Before the telling of the Passover story, a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLNa-ocdryY\">song</a> from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in honor of Adam Schlesinger (victim to the Coronavirus).\n\nThe formal telling of the story of Passover is framed as a discussion with lots of questions and answers. The tradition that the youngest person asks the questions reflects the centrality of involving everyone in the seder.\n\nמַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילות\n\n Ma nishtana halaila hazeh mikol haleilot? \n\nWhy is this night different from all other nights?\n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָֽנוּ אוֹכלין חָמֵץ וּמַצָּה הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלּוֹ מצה \n\n Shebichol haleilot anu ochlin chameitz u-matzah. Halaila hazeh kulo matzah. \n\nOn all other nights we eat both leavened bread and matzah. \nTonight we only eat matzah.\n\nWe eat matzah as a symbol of the urgency of redemption. The Israelites did not have time to wait for their bread to rise-- the moment to act was upon them. What is the urgency in addressing the United States’ struggle with racial and other injustice?\n\n Please discuss \n\n \n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָֽנוּ אוֹכְלִין שְׁאָר יְרָקוֹת הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה מָרוֹר\n\n Shebichol haleilot anu ochlin shi’ar yirakot haleila hazeh maror. \n\nOn all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables, \nbut tonight we eat bitter herbs.\n\nWe eat maror to remember the bitterness of oppression. In  our day the U.S. criminal justice system has become broken, disproportionately impacting people of color. How can the taste of bitter herbs inspire action to repair this broken system? \n\n Please discuss \n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אֵין אָֽנוּ מַטְבִּילִין אֲפִילוּ פַּֽעַם אחָת הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה שְׁתֵּי פְעמים\n\n Shebichol haleilot ain anu matbilin afilu pa-am echat. Halaila hazeh shtei fi-amim. \n\nOn all other nights we aren’t expected to dip our vegetables one time. \nTonight we do it twice.\n\nWe dip twice to celebrate abundance. After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we thought the ability to vote was finally abundant for all Americans. But when we look twice, we see that ability still being impeded. How are we called to act to guarantee access to this fundamental right for every person? How are we to deal with the nationalism that surrounds us?\n\n Please discuss \n\n \n\n \n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָֽנוּ אוֹכְלִין בֵּין יוֹשְׁבִין וּבֵין מְסֻבִּין. :הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלָּֽנוּ מְסֻבין\n\n Shebichol haleilot anu ochlin bein yoshvin uvein m’subin. Halaila hazeh kulanu m’subin. \n\nOn all other nights we eat either sitting normally or reclining. \nTonight we recline.\n\nWe recline to experience the ease of privilege. For millennia, we adopted this pose on seder night most often in contrast to Jews’ daily experience of oppression. In our own day, many of us feel largely at ease because of our assimilation into white culture. As we recline tonight, what are the limitations and responsibilities of those of us who carry white privilege to end systemic racial injustice in our congregations, communities and country? How should the Jewish community deal with rising anti-semitism while acknowledging our privilege?\n\n Please discuss \n\n A fifth question for today: \n\nHow is this night not different from all other nights?\n\n What are the problems in our society that have remained as we shelter in place? What are the good parts of our society that remain, even as we speak online? 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And we know the story of the Ten Plagues: first came the water turning to blood and then the frogs and the lice and the wild animals and the pestilence and boils, the thunderstorm of hail and fire and locusts. And then the ninth plague, the plague of darkness. And the Torah tells us that God said to Moses, “Hold out your arm toward the sky. There will be a darkness that will descend on the land, a darkness that can be touched....This plague feels really strangely out of place: so, it’s going to be dark for three days and three nights, and I’m sure that that was inconvenient—we had rolling brown-outs here in Los Angeles last night. I’m sure it was uncomfortable, no doubt. But the plagues progressively worsen.\n\nAnd this is the ninth plague, and it doesn’t seem exactly as bad as some of the earlier ones were. So, we ask: what was so terrible about the plague of darkness? Moses holds out his arm toward the sky, and a thick darkness descends upon all of Egypt for three days. And the text tells us that people could not see one another. And for three days, no one could get up from where he was. So what’s so terrible about the plague. The people could not see each other.\n\nBut the...rabbinic voices bring to us a deeper understanding of what was actually happening in that time of darkness:...for three days, no one could get up from where he was. This is the deepest darkness. When a person can’t even see his neighbor and therefore can’t be with another person in his suffering and pain. When a person no longer feels the pain of his neighbor, he feels like he’s impotent, and therefore he sits by another person’s pain idly.\n\n“No one could get up from where he was,” the text says, meaning people can’t even stand up to help one another, couldn’t be with another person in their time of suffering and pain, which left them feeling impotent and stripped their lives of meaning. I want to acknowledge today that this is part of what is so incredibly painful about what we’re experiencing right now. There’s so little that we can do. There’s a lot that we cannot do..., but there’s very little that we can do. And there is a profound and very real human instinct to reach out and to help. And this is precisely now perhaps an act of selfishness, to [ physically ] reach out and help somebody who’s in danger.", "cliptype": "", "clipsource": "Rabbi Sharon Brous", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 110, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Plague of Darkness | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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Do you live in a place where some people work two and three jobs to feed their children, and others don’t even have a single, poorly paid job? Do you live in a community in which the rich are fabulously rich, and the poor humiliated and desperate? Do you live among people who worship the golden calves of obsessive acquisitiveness, among people whose children are blessed by material abundance and cursed by spiritual impoverishment? Do you live in a place in which some people are more equal than others? In America, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is nearly twice as high as it is for whites. Black people are five times as likely to be incarcerated as whites. Infant mortality in the black community is twice as high as it is among whites. America is a golden land, absolutely, and for Jews, it has been an ark of refuge. But is has not yet fulfilled its promise. The same is true for that other Promised Land. Jewish citizens of Israel have median household incomes almost double that of Arab citizens and an infant mortality rate less than half that of Arabs. 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Copy it, and, every time we say \"Dayenu,\" send it to a person of your choice (or everyone) in the Zoom chat. \n\nPerhaps this custom is tied to the biblical story of the Jews who complained about the manna God had given them and recalled with longing the onions in Egypt. Our ancestors were infamous for their lack of appreciation, their stubbornness, and their complaints. \n\nIt is easy for us to sing Dayeinu and claim that \"each one of these good things would have been enough.\" But for those in the middle of the process of liberation, it is much harder to constantly be appreciative.\n\n As we ready ourselves to sing, in a spirit of gratefullness, let us drink the second glass of wine. \n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen.\n\nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.\n\nDRINK THE SECOND GLASS OF WINE", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/239857/greenOnion.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/239857/conversions/greenOnion-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 120, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Green Onion Dayeinu and Second Glass | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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As we eat the afikomen, our last taste of matzah for the evening, we are grateful for moments of silliness and happiness in our lives.\n\nSince this is a virtual seder, we will hunt for the Afikomen in 2 ways. The winner of each will receive some stickers in the mail!\n\n1. Find <a href=\"https://www.sporcle.com/games/Stanford0008/wheres-waldo\">Waldo</a>\n\n2. 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Had You onl...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "Had You only taught my ancestors [ Jewish value instilled in your family ] it would have been enough for us.\n\nHad You only allowed my family [ story of family finding safety or security ] it would have been enough for us.\n\nHad You only permitted my family, of [ place an ancestor was born ], to survive and thrive, generation to generation, their memory still with me in [ your location ], it would have been enough for us. \n\nHad You merely let my family [ defining moment of pride for your family ], enjoying success, it would have been enough for us. We thought it should have been enough for us.\n\nHad You only enacted [ laws or policies that allowed my family to prosper or exist here ] in the United States, it would have been enough for us.\n\nHad You only given [ activist in history you draw inspiration from ] a platform that helped to uplift others and benefit all by improving our society, it would have been enough for us. But what if it weren’t enough?\n\nHave we not let [ above leader or movement ] down in our silence, our indifference, our complacency?\n\n\n\nWhat is the next blank we need to fill in? How can we stand up and confront power with courage? Perhaps we have been given our privilege and position for such a time as this.\n\nHow do you feel connected to and separate from the Passover story? 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They both begin with “mah”, which in biblical Hebrew can mean “what?”, but can also mean “why is it?” or “what is the meaning of?”\n\nSeeing the various rites, the child first wants to know why the parent is living this way and why it is deemed important to pass it on. But the parent prefers to understand “mah” in its easier meaning of “what”, and so responds: “Here’s a catalogue of all you need to know about living a Jewish life”. (And, by implication: “Am I not a good parent/teacher, and aren’t you a wise child?”).\n\nBut the child hadn’t asked a “what” question, but rather the crucial “why” question—perhaps the most important question anyone, of any age, can ask. The essential message of Passover is that the service of God is unlike the service of Pharaoh. Pharaoh does not brook “why” questions. No tyrant does. No slave may ask such questions. But the essence of being free is that one is entitled to ask such questions. And one is entitled to answers, or at least good faith attempts at answers.\n\nSo, let us go back to the child. Having gotten the catalogue of rules, the child feels the need to clarify: “No, what I meant was: ‘Tell me the meaning of this service of yours’.” And now that the parent cannot avoid the import of the question, profound embarrassment ensues. Like so many of us, the parent hasn’t thought very deeply about why we should be doing what we do, and why we want our children to continue those practices. We are, like the parent, much more comfortable with “what” questions than with “why” questions.\n\nThe natural reaction when a question exposes the fact that we lack a reasonable answer is all too often to declare the question illegitimate, offensive, and out of bounds, and thus to lash out at the questioner. The “second child”—who is just the same child paraphrasing the original question—is now called “wicked” for asking such an impertinent question.\n\nThe child is now perplexed. The question about the Passover rites is put aside for another question: simply “what is this?”—why this kind of abusive treatment is forthcoming. The parent only has one answer: “God took us out of Egypt with a strong arm”. In other words, service of God becomes just like service to Pharaoh—we must simply respect the “strong arm,” the power, and not make trouble with “why” questions.\n\nThe outcome of all of this is sadly predictable. The child has now been taught, perversely, not to ask questions. And in this radio silence, the Haggadah offers the only possible advice: “you had better reopen the conversation with this child all over again.” And this time, open a serious dialogue about the essential “why” questions. 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In many ways, when COVID-19 emerged we stood like the Israelites on the edge of uncharted waters—with no choice but to take that first step forward.\n\nAnd in ordinary and extraordinary ways, we stepped up to the challenge. We channeled Nachshon’s courage, caring for the vulnerable around us and putting their health and wellbeing first… finding creative ways to build community in the face of isolation… and continuing to stand up for human rights at home and worldwide. Together, we rose to this moment—we took action in the face of unprecedented change, and we led the way toward repairing our broken world.\n\nThis year…\n\nWhat’s one way you embodied bravery? How did you “step into the sea”?\n\nWhat did you learn about yourself? 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Some say the cups represent our matriarchs—Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah—whose virtue caused our liberation us from slavery. Another interpretation is that the cups represent the Four Worlds: physicality, emotions, thought, and essence. Still a third interpretation is that the cups represent the four promises of liberation made in the Torah: I will bring you out, I will deliver you, I will redeem you, I will take you to be my people (Exodus 6:6-7.)\n\n<h4>THE FIRST CUP: FREEDOM IN AMERICA (\"I will bring you out\")</h4>\n\nAs we lift the first cup, we envision an America – the “land of the free” – where everyone has a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him/herself and of his/her family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services (from Article 25 of the Declaration of Human Rights).\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן\n\n \n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.\n\n \nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, \nשֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה \n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, \nshe-hechiyanu v’key’manu v’higiyanu lazman hazeh. \nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, \nwho has kept us alive, raised us up, and brought us to this happy moment.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Rabbis for Human Rights/Reform Judaism", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330109/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_7.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330109/conversions/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_7-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Kadesh", "slug": "kadesh" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 103, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "First Cup | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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We envision an Israel that is “based on freedom, justice, and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel,” an Israel that “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants” (from the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel, 1948).\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן \n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Rabbis for Human Rights", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330130/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_8.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330130/conversions/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_8-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 182, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Second Cup | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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But trauma cannot be healed quickly, even by finding meaning in stories of survival. After we were liberated from Egypt, we had to wander the desert for 40 years before reaching the promised land, so that a generation would pass and new foundations would be laid by people no longer carrying this trauma. In our modern, capitalist society, there is neither time nor the space to wander in the wilderness. ( How has this changed or not changed during the pandemic? ) The history that is unfolding around us today is one in which the traumas of the twentieth century, far from healed, are carried forward and inflicted on other vulnerable peoples. </h4>\n\n<h4>THE THIRD CUP: REDEMPTION FROM OVERWORK AND UNDERWORK (\"I will redeem you\")</h4>\n\nAs we lift the third cup, we envision a world where everyone has work and, without any discrimination, receives equal pay for equal work. We envision a world where everyone also can enjoy rest and leisure, and periodic holidays with pay (adapted from Articles 23 and 24 of the Declaration of Human Rights).\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן \n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Rabbis for Human Rights/Jewdas/Juliana Morrison", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330140/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_9.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330140/conversions/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_9-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 177, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Third Cup | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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 fourth cup recalls us to our covenant with the Eternal One, to the tasks that still await us as a people called to the service of God, to a great purpose for which the people of Israel lives: the preservation and affirmation of hope. So we dedicate this fourth cup to all those who labor for the common good in large ways and small, regardless of their origin, station, or faith. And we take heart from the fact that there will yet come a day that all those who yearn for the good and who help sustain it will yet prevail. Each day, around the world and here at home, there are cries going unanswered by our fellow human beings. We must work to bring freedom to those still in the depths. It will not be easy. To truly address slavery, we cannot just free individual slaves but must also address the root causes of poverty, prejudice, and inequality that make slavery possible. Our eyes are now open: let us take action on what we see.</h4>\n\n<h4>THE FOURTH CUP: LIBERATION FROM SLAVERY ALL OVER THE WORLD (\"I will take you to be my people\")</h4>\n\nAs we lift the fourth cup, we envision a world where no one is held in slavery or servitude… a world without sweatshop laborers, where all workers are able to make a fair wage, regardless of which country they are born into. We envision a world where all products are fairly traded, and no one country or financial institution can dictate trade policies (adapted from Article 4 of the Declaration of Human Rights).\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן \n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, borei p’ree hagafen. \nWe praise God, Ruler of Everything, who creates the fruit of the vine.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "HIAS/Rabbis for Human Rights", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330163/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_10.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330163/conversions/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_10-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 157, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Fourth Cup | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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/fourth-cup-156", "og:title": "Fourth Cup | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330163/conversions/Zoom_Passover_Backgrounds_10-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "opening-the-door-for-miriam-and-elijah", "title": "Opening the Door for Miriam and Elijah", "author": "Sophia + Jacob", "author_handle": "sophiacharan150859", "author_initials": "SJ", "covertext": "Miriam the prophetess is linked with water in a number of ways. She watched over her baby brother Moses in the Nile and...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "Miriam the prophetess is linked with water in a number of ways. She watched over her baby brother Moses in the Nile and sang and danced at the shores of the Reed Sea. Midrash teaches us that when Miriam died, the magical, portable well that had sustained our people dried up. According to tradition, Elijah will bring Messiah to us and the world will be redeemed. In Rabbi Leila Gal Berner's lyrics (image), Miriam brings us to the waters of redemption. It will then be our task to enter the waters and together redeem the world. Instead of pouring out wrath, let us pour forth love, forgiveness and peace — for the soothing and healing of our broken world.\n\n Add water to Miriam's glass while singing. \n\nOne tradition suggests that each person is responsible for helping to bring Elijah’s idyllic vision to fruition. As we focus tonight on creating liberation, let us each pour some wine into the cup of Elijah & Miriam on our table as a pledge to each do our part in building a more just society.\n\nWe now open the front door, to invite the prophets Miriam and Elijah to join our seder, and sing:\n\nאֵלִיָּֽהוּ הַנָּבִיא, אֵלִיָּֽהוּ הַתִּשְׁבִּי, \nאֵלִיָּֽהוּ הַגִּלְעָדִי \nבִּמְהֵרָה בְיָמֵֽנוּ יָבוֹא אֵלֵֽינוּ \nעִם מָשִֽׁיחַ בֶּן דָּוִד\n\nEliyahu Hanavie, Eliyahu Hatishbi, \nElyahu Hagiladi, \nBimherah Yavo Elenu \nIm Mashiach Ben David.\n\nElijah the Prophet, Elijah the Tishbite, \nElijah the Giladite, \nMay he soon come to us, \nwith Mashiach the son of David.\n\n\n\nRabbi Mishael Zion, teaches that the seder’s two door-openings are fundamentally opposites. When we opened the door at Ha lachma anya, we focused on local injustice; we, from our position of privilege, are the ones capable of feeding those who are hungry. Here, late in the seder, we open ourselves up to the massive injustices that afect the entire world. We give ourselves permission to name our anger at the fact that forced labor and other injustices still exist in the 21st century, to recognize our limitations, and to cry out, asking God to show up as an avenger of injustice. The world we want to see will have no need of our righteous indignation, but until that world is here, we cannot afford to ignore those darker feelings.\n\nWhat is the role of anger in fighting injustice?", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "T'ruah/Revenge of Dinah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330340/MiriamSong.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330340/conversions/MiriamSong-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 157, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Opening the Door for Miriam and Elijah | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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 most common vegetables used are parsley or celery although some use other veggies, such as potatoes, or even raw onions.\n\nThe vegetable symbolizes the coming of spring, which brings new life and new hope, and was the season of the Passover liberation. We generally use a non-bitter vegetable for karpas, to distinguish it from the bitter herbs we will use later. Some Sephardim will dip their vegetables in vinegar, while it’s Ashkenazi tradition to dip in salt water, symbolizing the tears our ancestors shed in slavery. In this way, positive symbols are being commingled with negative ones, much like in a Jewish wedding, where a glass is broken to remember the destruction of the Temple even during the happiest of occasions.\n\nSome have explained the dipping of the karpas to symbolize Joseph’s tunic being dipped into blood by his brothers, as they covered up their crime of selling him into slavery in Egypt. The dipping of the karpas is therefore done at the beginning of the Seder, just as Joseph’s tunic being dipped in blood began the long process of the descent of our ancestors into Egypt.\n\nWe dip twice in our seder. The two dippings are opposites. The first time, as we prepare to enter a world of slavery, we dip a green vegetable into saltwater, marring its life-giving freshness with the taste of tears and death. The second time, as we move towards redemption, we moderate the bitterness of maror with the sweetness of charoset. Any time we find ourselves immersed in sadness and suffering, may we always have the courage to know that blessing is coming.\n\nThe dipping of karpas also recalls the Israelites’ first stop after crossing the Red Sea, which was called Marah. After a three-day journey, they found water there, but it was bitter, undrinkable. God showed Moses a piece of wood to throw (dip) into the water, which made it potable. (Exodus 15:22-27) Even after a major initial victory, our elation can collapse swiftly under the weight of the next steps we have to take. Karpas reminds us that the journey to freedom — like the seder — is long, and we have to pace ourselves. Karpas reminds us that on the long road to redemption, we have to make sure we stop and nourish ourselves wherever we can.\n\n Break off a branch of parsley and dip it into the salt water twice. Say a blessing while leaning into discomfort, perhaps into the edge of your chair. If something doesn’t sit right with you tonight, if you feel uncomfortable at any moment, if you want to object—that is when to think more, engage in conversation, and seek to stretch. Note those moments, and continue to explore them at this Seder. Together, we say the following blessing, \n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה \nBa-ruch a-tah A-do-nai, E-lo-hey-nu Me-lech ha-o-lam, Bo-rey pe-ri ha-a-da-mah. \nPraised are you, Adonai our God, Ruler of the universe, who creates the fruit of the earth. ", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "T'ruah/JUF Chicago/Ikar Seder Guide", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330285/Karpas.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330285/conversions/Karpas-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 160, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Karpas | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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But we know that that redemption is only going to come after ten horrible plagues decimate Egypt. These are plagues that are so devastating that the will of Pharaoh and his people is finally broken, and he cedes to Moses’ demands that he let the people go. Now that seems like a very simple and clear narrative thread: this is the story of an evil empire that's brought to its knees as divine punishment for the cruelties that visited on generations of vulnerable citizens.\n\n\n\nAnd yet I want to share with you tonight an insight brought by Sforno, a 15th century Italian rabbi, who argues that we have to be clear that these plagues were never designed to be punitive to Pharaoh or the Egyptian people. They were intended to awaken the conscience of Pharaoh and the people, to help them see the truth that they could not see before. What was the intention of this campaign of shock and awe? The idea here was to wake Pharaoh up, to poke his conscience, to help him decide of his own free will to change his ways and to follow a just path. God didn't want to give up on Pharaoh. Those plagues were designed to inspire Pharaoh to repent, to get better.\n\n\n\nAnd that's why it says repeatedly in Exodus that Pharaoh's “heart was hardened.” It was hardened after almost every single plague: “God hardened Pharaoh's heart.” But really, Sforno explains, what was happening was: God wanted to make sure that when the Israelites were liberated by Pharaoh, it wouldn't be out of impulse or out of fear of punishment or retribution. God wanted to elicit in Pharaoh and in the people a true change of heart. God wanted those people to realize that they were wrong. God wanted Pharaoh to take responsibility and then make amends and chart a new course.\n\n\n\nOur story is about the oppressed and the enslaved and ultimately the liberated. So why does Pharaoh state of mind matter to us so much? Because it is clear from our Torah that the objective of this effort was not only the liberation of the Israelites, but the liberation of the Egyptians, too—from a failed moral narrative that had allowed them to enslave other human beings in the first place. True redemption required not only the transformation of the oppressed but also of the oppressors. And Pharaoh in Egypt were offered a chance to become a part of the greatest redemption story ever written, to move from being corrupt oppressors to collaborators in building a new society that would be rooted in justice for every person. That would have required a real change of heart. Nine times, God signaled the need for an honest reckoning with Pharaoh's past behavior. But again and again and again, Pharaoh failed to wake up out of his fear-fueled, greed-driven slumber.\n\n\n\nNow, maybe this should not surprise us. As described recently by Timothy Snyder, the Big Lie is a fiction that is created by authoritarian leaders that separates them and their followers from reality and from the rest of the world. And once you become intoxicated by the Big Lie, it's extremely difficult to pull away from it. At some point, you can't even tell what the truth is. Pharaoh built an empire on the Big Lie: that the Israelites were a dangerous internal enemy, who threatened his insatiable hunger for power and profit. And that Big Lie allowed him to oppress and enslave and degrade and even murder, because you'll do anything for the Big Lie. And no lice or locusts swarms or even pandemic could convince him otherwise. Because, in the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, “no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.” \n\n\n\nIf you fail to awaken from the Big Lie, it will destroy you eventually. Sforno argues that was only after it was only after the first nine plagues failed to awaken Pharaoh, to see the error of his ways, that God ultimately determined that Pharaoh needed to be punished. Because, at the end of the day, justice needed to be served, and Pharaoh wasn't going to get there on his own. So, the tenth plague came with a swift fury. The trauma to the collective system was blunt and unforgiving. But after all of those warnings, there was simply no other choice.\n\n\n\nI've been thinking so much about this story amidst calls for healing that have come from some of our elected officials in the wake of the violent insurrection on January 6th, like: “Seeking punishment would only further divide our country,” “Calling political opponents Nazis does nothing to bring us together,” and “Let's move forward.” And healing and unity are things I believe in, lofty and admirable aspirations. But we have to be very clear right now: the path to healing and reconciliation leads only through truth-telling and accountability. There is no healing without acknowledgement of complicity in a system that is rooted in greed, cruelty, and supremacist thinking. Pharaoh and the taskmasters had a chance to awaken to this truth, but again and again, their stubborn persistence led their society to the brink of collapse. The calls today for healing are cynical. They are politically unsubtle attempts to shift the narrative: to refuse to accept responsibility when real harm has been done.\n\n\n\nThe call of our time is not to subdue the fierce yearning for justice in the name of coming together and healing. God did not tell the Israelites to quiet their hunger for liberation, so as not to stir up disunity in Egypt. Sometimes a healthy tension is needed in order to create a just and loving collective body.\n\n\n\nI want to lift up tonight the words of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1955. He writes about Pharaoh's hardened heart, which revealed to us a great truth about evil: Evil “never voluntarily relinquishes its throne. Evil is stubborn, hard, and determined. It never gives up without a bitter struggle and without the most persistent and almost fanatical resistance.”\n\n\n\nSomeone asked me if I believe that some people are irredeemably evil. I do not. But I do believe that some ideologies are irredeemably evil. And when those who hold those ideologies—who benefit from them, who perpetuate them, who profit off of them—are given the chance to wake up, to change their heart, to grow, to adapt, to repent, but they stubbornly refuse, they, like Pharaoh, will inevitably pay the price.\n\n\n\nThe demand for justice is an act of resistance against evil. It was true back then, and it is true today. Justice is the only response to supremacist thinking and violence. Accountability is the only way to move forward on the path toward healing.", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Rabbi Sharon Brous", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 164, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Plagues: The Path to Healing | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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 Talmud says the two foods represent two sacrifices, the korban pesach (Pesach sacrifice) and the korban chagigah (festival sacrifice), that were originally brought in the Temple on Passover.\n\nWhat does the tradition’s choice of an egg as one of those \"two cooked foods\" mean?\n\nLike the matzah, which represents both suffering and freedom in one food, the egg has taken on more than one symbolic meaning.\n\nOn the one hand, along with the parsley or green vegetable of karpas, eggs are a symbol of new growth, suitable for this “Festival of Spring.” Passover, the holiday of redemption, is a time of rebirth and renewal, and emphasizing its connection to spring reinforces that meaning. On the other hand, eggs are a food associated in Jewish tradition with mourning. They are often eaten by mourners at the first meal following a funeral of a loved one; and at the final meal before the fast of Tisha B’Av, eggs are served dipped in ashes. The seder plate egg reminds us of the way we observed Passover in Temple times; at the same time, it reminds us that the Temple has been destroyed, and the spiritual, ritual, and communal opportunities it offered to us are lost with it.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Jewish Initiative for Animals", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330420/roasted_egg.jpeg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/330420/conversions/roasted_egg-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 210, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Egg | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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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As we say this, we imagine a time and place where this invitation could have actually brought in poor and hungry people off the street to celebrate side-by-side with seder-goers. Indeed, let us keep in the forefront of our minds the over 69,000 people in Los Angeles County who lack a permanent roof over their heads tonight. \n\n A person in each room opens their front door. Then, each holds up the middle matzah, as we recite together: \n\nThis is the bread of affliction \nWhich our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. \nAll who are hungry, let them enter and eat. \nAll who are in need, let them come celebrate Passover with us. Now we are here. Next year in the land of Israel. \nNow we are enslaved. Next year we will be free!\n\n Close the door and continue: ", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "JConnect Seattle's Liberal Seder", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/413095/Afikommen3.png", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/413095/conversions/Afikommen3-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 157, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Let All Who Are Hungry Come And Eat | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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/let-all-who-are-hungry-come-and-eat-26", "og:title": "Let All Who Are Hungry Come And Eat | Passover haggadah by Sophia + Jacob", "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": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/413095/conversions/Afikommen3-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "urchatz-hygiene-theater", "title": "Urchatz", "author": "Sophia + Jacob", "author_handle": "sophiacharan150859", "author_initials": "SJ", "covertext": "During a festive meal—on Shabbat and other holidays—we generally follow the Kiddush with a ritual hand-washing. But this...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "During a festive meal—on Shabbat and other holidays—we generally follow the Kiddush with a ritual hand-washing. But this is usually done in preparation to break bread. Here we also have a hand washing before eating a vegetable, which all comes before we ever get to the bread (matzah). Why such an odd deviation from practice? The most common answer is that it is odd precisely so it will look odd, and thereby provoke questions. And the prompting of questions, especially among children, is a major objective of the evening. 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The tradition...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "The formal telling of the story of Passover is framed as a discussion with lots of questions and answers.\n\nThe tradition that the youngest person asks the questions reflects the centrality of involving everyone in the seder.\n\nמַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילות\n\n Ma nishtana halaila hazeh mikol haleilot? \n\nWhy is this night different from all other nights?\n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָֽנוּ אוֹכלין חָמֵץ וּמַצָּה הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלּוֹ מצה \n\n Shebichol haleilot anu ochlin chameitz u-matzah. Halaila hazeh kulo matzah. \n\nOn all other nights we eat both leavened bread and matzah. \nTonight we only eat matzah.\n\nWe eat matzah as a symbol of the urgency of redemption. The Israelites did not have time to wait for their bread to rise—the moment to act was upon them. What is the urgency in addressing the United States’ struggle with racial and other injustice?\n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָֽנוּ אוֹכְלִין שְׁאָר יְרָקוֹת הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה מָרוֹר\n\n Shebichol haleilot anu ochlin shi’ar yirakot haleila hazeh maror. \n\nOn all other nights we eat all kinds of vegetables, \nbut tonight we eat bitter herbs.\n\nWe eat maror to remember the bitterness of oppression. In our day, the U.S. criminal justice system has become broken, disproportionately impacting people of color. How can the taste of bitter herbs inspire action to repair this broken system? \n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אֵין אָֽנוּ מַטְבִּילִין אֲפִילוּ פַּֽעַם אחָת הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה שְׁתֵּי פְעמים\n\n Shebichol haleilot ain anu matbilin afilu pa-am echat. Halaila hazeh shtei fi-amim. \n\nOn all other nights we aren’t expected to dip our vegetables one time. \nTonight we do it twice.\n\nWe dip twice to celebrate abundance. After the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we thought the ability to vote was finally abundant for all Americans. But when we look twice, we see that ability still being impeded. Most recently, in Georgia, it is now illegal to \"let all who are hungry\" in line at polling places \"come and eat,\" as the distribution of water and food to voters has been banned. How are we called to act to guarantee access to this fundamental right for every person? How are we to deal with the nationalism that surrounds us?\n\nשֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹת אָֽנוּ אוֹכְלִין בֵּין יוֹשְׁבִין וּבֵין מְסֻבִּין. :הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלָּֽנוּ מְסֻבין\n\n Shebichol haleilot anu ochlin bein yoshvin uvein m’subin. Halaila hazeh kulanu m’subin. \n\nOn all other nights we eat either sitting normally or reclining. \nTonight we recline.\n\nWe recline to experience the ease of privilege. For millennia, we adopted this pose on seder night most often in contrast to Jews’ daily experience of oppression. In our own day, many of us feel largely at ease because of our assimilation into white culture. As we recline tonight, what are the limitations and responsibilities of those of us who carry white privilege to end systemic racial injustice in our congregations, communities and country? How should the Jewish community deal with rising anti-semitism while acknowledging the other privileges we may hold?\n\n A fifth question for today: \n\nHow is this night not different from all other nights?\n\nWhat are the problems in our society that have remained as we shelter in place? What are the good parts of our society that remain, even as we speak online?\n\n Please discuss any and all of the above that draw your interest. 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In washing our hands, we also think of those who don't get to share in the basic human right of abundant, clean water and those deprived of water by human action in places like Flint and many public schools in Los Angeles, as well as those whose homes have been ravaged by wind and water in places like the Midwest and Iran.

We wash our hands and accept our responsibilities to those threatened by the presence and absence of water and pray that those with the human power to change things do not wash their hands of what the world needs them to correct.

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