{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "welcome-208", "title": "Welcome", "author": "Erin Miriam", "author_handle": "erin-miriam", "author_initials": "EM", "covertext": "Welcome to all and thank you all for coming to our Seder. I am grateful to be surrounded by family and friends, and that...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Welcome to all and thank you all for coming to our Seder. I am grateful to be surrounded by family and friends, and that we are all together in experiencing the truly remarkable blessings freedom has granted us. Healthy bodies and minds, meaningful pursuits in our personal or professional lives, unrestricted travel to come together, and companions of our choosing are a few things that come to mind. These blessings of freedom are often unremarked and taken as a matter of course, as a matter of rights. And they <u>are</u> a matter of rights - what we and all human beings should be entitled to simply for having a heart beat. But, these blessings are not a matter of course. They are a direct result of being free. Without freedom, the talents we have, the passions we carry, the fruits of our labor, and the love of our hearts are all inaccessible.</p>\n\n<p>When Hannah asked me after reading a Passover story book, \"what is slavery, Mommy?\", I told her it means \"having no choices.\" Well today, we have exercised our freedom and chosen to come together to tell the story of Passover, to have our Seder. I am glad we have chosen to be together.</p>\n\n<p>Our Haggadah will be a little different than what we have used in the past. I've leaned heavily on two groups called Jewish Boston and JewEnough which offered Haggadot that I believe resonate with our family's values. It contains all the Seder \"essentials\" and it is well suited to the liberal adult demographic we have at the table today. It is not kid friendly, so please excuse me if my attention is at times lacking.</p>\n\n<p>A few other differences from years past.</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>We will not go around the table to read, but for those who are so inclined (and I hope many are) you can sign up for a section - we will pass around a sheet.</li>\n\t<li>The Seder will be done in two parts, with our meal in the middle, and a few more short readings and blessings at the end.</li>\n\t<li>Feel free to nosh on the olives and carrots (they are symbols for peace and tradition, respectively), and drink as the Seder goes on. Just keep in mind that you will have two more cups of wine to drink after dinner!</li>\n\t<li>Speak up with observations, questions, or opinions on passages as you are so moved. Judaism, both the religion and traditions, is heavy with discussions, questions, debates, and discourse. Please, share your thoughts throughout the Seder - with your neighbors or the whole table.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>So as we tell the story of our ancestors' liberation from slavery in Egypt, we will both celebrate our own blessing of freedom, and remember those who are still, metaphorically, in Egypt. Today is for celebration, remembering, and teaching of the next generation. But even more important than  today, is acting tomorrow. Tomorrow, when we will resume the work to free those who still suffer, and begin to cast off the things in our own lives that oppress us. Tomorrow, when we honor our freedom by living righteously and with gratitude. </p>\n\n<p>Again, welcome and thank you for choosing to together here with us. So we begin...</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Personal", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 173, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Welcome | Passover haggadah by Erin Miriam", "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/welcome-208", "og:title": "Welcome | Passover haggadah by Erin Miriam", "og: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 will wash our hands twice during our seder: now, with no blessing, to get us ready for the rituals to come; and then again later, we’ll wash again with a blessing, preparing us for the meal, which Judaism thinks of as a ritual in itself. (The Jewish obsession with food is older than you thought!)</p>\n\n<p>By definition, hand washing is supposed to involve pouring water over your hands. We will take a more symbolic approach using a modern towelette.</p>\n\n<p>This hand washing is also meant as a pause - a preparation. Too often during our daily lives we don’t stop and take the moment to prepare for whatever it is we’re about to do. 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We pour out a drop of wine for each of the plagues as we recite them.</p>\n\n<p>Dip a finger or a spoon into your wine glass for a drop for each plague.</p>\n\n<p>These are the ten plagues which God brought down on the Egyptians:</p>\n\n<p>Blood | dam | <strong>דָּם</strong></p>\n\n<p>Frogs | tzfardeiya | <strong>צְפַרְדֵּֽעַ</strong></p>\n\n<p>Lice | kinim | <strong>כִּנִּים</strong></p>\n\n<p>Beasts | arov | <strong>עָרוֹב</strong></p>\n\n<p>Cattle disease | dever | <strong>דֶּֽבֶר</strong></p>\n\n<p>Boils | sh’chin | <strong>שְׁחִין</strong></p>\n\n<p>Hail | barad | <strong>בָּרָד</strong></p>\n\n<p>Locusts | arbeh |<strong> אַרְבֶּה</strong></p>\n\n<p>Darkness | choshech | <strong>חֹֽשֶׁךְ</strong></p>\n\n<p>Death of the Firstborn | makat b’chorot | <strong>מַכַּת בְּכוֹרוֹת</strong></p>\n\n<p>The Egyptians needed ten plagues because after each one they were able to come up with excuses and explanations rather than change their behavior. 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The idea of one God, invisible and all-powerful, inspired him to leave his family and begin a new people in Canaan, the land that would one day bear his grandson Jacob’s adopted name, Israel.</p>\n\n<p>God had made a promise to Abraham that his family would become a great nation, but this promise came with a frightening vision of the troubles along the way: “Your descendants will dwell for a time in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and afflicted for four hundred years; however, I will punish the nation that enslaved them, and afterwards they shall leave with great wealth.\"</p>\n\n<p> <em>Raise the glass of wine and say:</em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>וְהִיא שֶׁעָמְדָה לַאֲבוֹתֵֽינוּ וְלָֽנוּ</strong></p>\n\n<p>V’hi she-amda l’avoteinu v’lanu.</p>\n\n<p>This promise has sustained our ancestors and us.</p>\n\n<p>For some Jews, we see this sustenance from God through the lens of historical Judaism - both biblical history and contemporary history. “For not only one enemy has risen against us to annihilate us, but in every generation there are those who rise against us. 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