{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "whats-seder-plate-1", "title": "What's On the Seder Plate", "author": "Sivan Butler-Rotholz", "author_handle": "sivansf129795", "author_initials": "SB", "covertext": "Nothing on the Seder table is selected randomly; each item has it’s purpose and often it’s specific place. The Seder pla...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Nothing on the Seder table is selected randomly; each item has it’s purpose and often it’s specific place. The Seder plate holds at least six of the ritual items that are discussed during the Seder: the bone, maror, charoset, karpas, salt water, orange, and egg.</p>\n\n<p><strong>BONE</strong><br />\nOne of the most striking symbols of Passover is, traditionally, a roasted lamb shankbone (tonight a chicken bone), which commemorates the paschal (lamb) sacrifice made the night the ancient Hebrews fled Egypt. </p>\n\n<p><strong>MAROR (BITTER HERB)</strong><br />\nBitter herbs (usually horseradish) 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 the many faces slavery has taken throughout history and still takes today, as well as our own bitter enslavements.</p>\n\n<p><strong>CHAROSET</strong><br />\nThere’s nothing further from maror than charoset (“cha-ROH-set”), the sweet mix of fruits and spices that represents the mortar used by the Hebrew slaves to make bricks.</p>\n\n<p><strong>KARPAS</strong><br />\nKarpas is a green vegetable, usually parsley. Karpas symbolizes the freshness of spring. </p>\n\n<p><strong>SALT WATER</strong><br />\nSalt water symbolizes the tears and sweat of enslavement, though paradoxically, it’s also a symbol for purity, springtime, and the sea.</p>\n\n<p><strong>ORANGE</strong><br />\nThe orange on the seder plate is a modern feminist tradition that now acts as a symbol of the fruitfulness of all Jews, whether they be LGBTQ, female, male, transgendered, or otherwise.</p>\n\n<p><strong>EGG</strong><br />\nThe egg (baytsah) is a symbol of fertility, springtime, and renewal. This symbol pays homage to the Goddess worshipped by the ancient Israelites and their neighbors in Canaan and throughout the surrounding lands. In modern Jewish tradition it stands in place of one of the sacrificial offerings which was performed in the days of the Second Temple. </p>\n\n<p>Our faith gives us many holidays to celebrate throughout the year and they are all times for self reflection, gently guiding us to a better path in life. We are each given a chance to reflect on our past year; to think about where we have been and how we will live our lives in the year to come. We reaffirm our commitment to lead good and meaningful lives, promoting peace and social justice wherever we go.</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": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 186, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "What's On the Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Sivan Butler-Rotholz", "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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Dough, composed of four elemental feminine symbols--water, salt, grain, and yeast--becomes the quintessential foodstuff called \"the staff of life.\" Dough rising slowly in an oven is metaphorical for a baby growing in a mother's womb; \"a bun in the oven\" in modern parlance. In all emerging agricultural societies, kneading dough and baking bread were acts symbolic of fertility. Made of grain--the sacred gift of agriculture--bread baked by a mother for her family combined earth, hearth, and love.</p>\n\n<p>Jewish communities around the world have slightly different versions of the Passover ceremony, but eating matzah and forgoing leavened bread is an unbroken tradition harkening back millennia. The symbolism of unleavened bread subtly devalues an important female contribution to culture, and indirectly demotes the role of the Goddess.</p>\n\n<p>Virtually every sect, culture and religion has a spring ritual that celebrates the female themes of fertility, birth, resurrection, renewal, and the return of nature's gifts. The Exodus marks the beginning of the Hebrew people's rebirth and their rededication to the principles of their religion. Yet, the leitmotifs of the Passover story are deprivation, deliverance by a male deity, swearing fealty to Him alone, and the hardships of the Wandering, all of which glorify male ethics and values. This most important myth surrounding the birth of a distinct culture contains neither a single major female participant* nor any statement of the themes of resurrection, fertility, sexuality, and the fruitfulness of the land.</p>\n\n<p>* Miriam is the only [pervasive] female character in this drama. 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Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals . . . We are all human beings, individuals, fragile eggs. We have no hope against the wall: it's too high, too dark, too cold. To fight the wall, we must join our souls together for warmth, strength. We must not let the system control us -- create who we are.</p>\n\n<p>HARUKI MURAKAMI</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The egg at the the Seder meal appears as a delicious and symbolic \"appetizer,\" served peeled of its hard shell and, in most households, swimming in salt water representing the sea, source of life.</p>\n\n<p>It seems that the egg, a longstanding symbol of fertility and the cycle of life and rebirth - of resurrection of life and nature in the spring after the harsh winter - is now a symbol of beginnings, of hope. It stands as a symbol of resilience to suffering. 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What other modern \"plagues\" afflict the earth and its inhabitants today? </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": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 181, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Ten Plagues Facing Modern Refugees | Passover haggadah by Sivan Butler-Rotholz", "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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Here is an excerpt from <a href=\"http://forward.com/articles/172959/an-orange-on-plate-for-women-and-spit-out-seeds/\">Professor Susannah Heschel in her own words, from an article that she wrote for <em>The Jewish Daily Forward</em> in 2013</a>:</p>\n\n<p><em>“At an early point in the seder… I asked each person to take a segment of the orange, make the blessing over fruit and eat the segment in recognition of gay and lesbian Jews and of widows, orphans, Jews who are adopted and all others who sometimes feel marginalized in the Jewish community.</em></p>\n\n<p><em>“When we eat that orange segment, we spit out the seeds to repudiate homophobia and we recognize that in a whole orange, each segment sticks together. Oranges are sweet and juicy and remind us of the fruitfulness of gay and lesbian Jews and of the homosociality that has been such an important part of Jewish experience, whether of men in yeshivas or of women in the Ezrat Nashim.”</em></p>\n\n<p>To honor both the history and the legend that sprung up around it, I invite each of you to take a segment of the orange as we make the <a href=\"http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/fruitbless.html\">blessing over fruit that grows on trees</a>:</p>\n\n<p> <em>Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha'olam, borai p'ri haetz.</em> </p>\n\n<p>Now please eat the segment in recognition of gender equality, of LGBTQIA Jews, and of widows, orphans, Jews who are adopted, interfaith couples and families, and all others who sometimes feel marginalized in the Jewish community.</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": "Koreich", "slug": "koreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 201, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Orange on the Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Sivan Butler-Rotholz", "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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