Why Are You Here, Elijah?

{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "why-are-you-here-elijah", "title": "Why Are You Here, Elijah?", "author": "Michael Bernstein", "author_handle": "michael-bernstein", "author_initials": "MB", "covertext": "Elijah is at the door. His cup is waiting. \"Why are you here, Elijah?\" He has heard this question before, a long time ag...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "Elijah is at the door. His cup is waiting.\n\n\"Why are you here, Elijah?\"\n\nHe has heard this question before, a long time ago. Before he left the world but did not die. \n\n\"Why are you here, Elijah?\"\n\nHe had just struck his greatest blow against idolatry. First humiliating then slaying hundreds of prophets of Baal. The fires of G*d had done his bidding and he had done the Lord's work with the edge of his sword.\n\n\"Why are you here, Elijah\"\n\nAnd then, having fled he hid in a cave and G*d asked:\n\nWhy?\n\n\"Why??? I have done Your work as Your people have denied Your Covenenat, Destroyed Your Altars, Slain your Prophets! I alone am left! Why????\"\n\nAnd then G*d had Elijah come forth from the cave and there was a great whirlwind and an awsome earthquake and fire once more from the Heavens. And G*d was not in the roaring wind, not in the quaking Earth, not in the fire. And then silence and the faintest, slightest voice.\n\n\"Why are you here, Elijah?\"\n\nThat was the end of his career as a prophet of mountains and fire. The beginning of a new journey to hear the voice of the valley, the echo in the cave. He would leave the world carried by the storm but return to soft and invisible as the dew.\n\n\"Why are you here, Elijah\"\n\nTo attend the rites of covenant and change. Marking moments of birth and transition. Bearing silent witness to the invisible G*d of the doorframe. Rustling just enough that we never know if we hear him or if it was just a gust of wind. So when we look out we can ask not Elijah, but ourselves.\n\n\"Why are you here?\"", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 115, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Are You Here, Elijah? | Passover haggadah by Michael Bernstein", "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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They stood at high alert, staff in hand and sandals on their feet as they consumed the required meal of unleavened bread, bitter herbs and the roasted meat of the lamb. They were ready to leave Egypt behind and with it their confinement. And all the while, it is unavoidable to say, they waited out the ravages of the tenth plague safe behind their walls marked with the sign that they may be passed over.\n\nYes, we too are isolated with our households and likely to be so when Passover comes. But as tempting as it is to lean into the imagery of the plague, I do not want to do so. Because Covid19 is a terrible pandemic, but not a plague.\n\nFirst of all, a plague is a punishment. The word that is used in Hebrew and the etymology of the English word plague both mean a blow that is struck. The Black Death, perhaps the most famous plague outside of the original ten, was also widely understood to be the work of an angry G*d. There are pockets of every faith that would find such an origin for the calamitous effects of Covid19. Still, by and large, those who find themselves in seclusion and trepidation do not see the virus as a Divine punishment.\n\nThe most dangerous part of associating Covid19 with the tenth, eleventh or any other Passover plague is not about the malady’s origin, but about our response. When the Israelites sequestered in their home and painted the blood on their door they did it to distinguish themselves from the rest of the households. The mark told the destroyer to move on by and find another home to devastate. To touch someone else.\n\nWhen those of us fortunate enough to stay home with our loved ones do so, it is instead a recognition that there are no distinctions to the disease except our own age, health and other factors that are not points of identity. And we each know that whatever we do is not primarily for us, but for our neighbors and coworkers and others we do not know. We do not say to the invisible killer go get someone else, but to each other we are in this together, flattening a curve which commands us in a way more abstract, yet just as urgent as the One who told Moses and Aaron what was about to occur.\n\nOur houses have no blood on the doorpost, neither for protection nor identification. Our meals are different, our fears and expectations vary, yet our prayers across faiths, beliefs, and doubts are almost the same. We await not a personal or communal salvation, but an all-clear for everyone.\n\nAs I imagine sitting at my Passover table with many fewer people in my house, but perhaps many more connected to us from theirs, I think about what we might do when we get to the part about the plagues that struck Egypt. As we take a drop of wine out for each in order to symbolize diminished joy, perhaps we will think also of those who have suffered and succumbed to Covid19. And we will recognize, please G*d, the blessing of being able to once more recount and relive the story of the Israelites and the meal they ate in haste awaiting redemption.\n\nHowever, most poignant about having a Seder in a house closed off because of the threat of the coronavirus will be the unmistakable teaching that, unlike that midnight in Egypt we, all of us, are in this together", "cliptype": "", "clipsource": null, "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": 130, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Passover and Pandemic | Passover haggadah by Michael Bernstein", "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 very next step will be to wash in preparation for the green vegetable. But maybe we should wash before kadesh? Wouldn't it make sense to first preform the cleansing and then, in a state of readiness, declare the holiness of the day?\n\nWe learn from this order a profound truth: We are always ready for a holy moment. Not only when things are perfect, which they aren't, or even in good shape, which they aren't always. Holy is come as you are. Because each of us is holy, created in G*d's image. And each of our story is holy. Because our story plays a part in the story we tell tonight. The story of the Israelites breaking free from Egypt. And that story is part of the story of what it means to be human. 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Why tears at this moment of renewal and celebration of life?\n\nThe rebirth of the Israelites, so crushed and reduced to dust by generations of slavery, required the revival of the dry wellsprings of their bodies no less than their souls. A midrash, rabbinic elaboration, teaches that when the men and women would return from the fields and brickyards weary and caked in mud there was scarcely energy to move, let alone to be moved by desire for each other. Yet one would show the other their reflection in a little mirror and say \"I am more beautiful than you\" and the other would be drawn in and respond \"no I am more beautiful than you\" and their bodies would awaken, flowing with love stronger than death.\n\nRebirth is not dry. The spring awakening symbolized by the karpas cannot be dry either. Salt water may taste a little bitter and too much salt will poison, but salt is also the source of life, the source of flavor. Not the strangely sterile idea of birth symbolized by a raw vegetable barely felt on the tongue, but the tanginess of life.\n\nReturning to Egypt, when Pharaoh declared the boys be drowned in the waters of the Nile, Amram, the leader of the Israelite community told his people to separate from each other, to no longer come together to bring new children into the world just to have them drowned. Amram's daughter stood in her father's face and said \"You are worse than Pharaoh! He has condemned the boys but you have condemned any future child.\" Amram relented and returned to his wife Yocheved. And their defiant daughter Miriam had a younger brother, Moses.\n\nMiriam would help lead her people across the sea and become the keeper of the well of living water.\n\nSo salt water for the tears we cried. 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In part because lechem oni is the bread of affliction it is fitting to eat this bread of poverty, broken. And in part because lechem oni is the bread of answers, the beginning of our search for new ways to tell the story. That searching can not be done unless there is a way to break out of our assumptions. A way to let in something new. 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Why not send it to people in need or as a gift of food for our friends like we do on Purim? Here is a great paradox of Passover. , Although the Seder can be a blueprint for our concern with justice and liberation, the way we tell the story is not about taking action. Instead, the Passover story calks us to inviite, refkect, learn, teach, and give praise.\n\nThe haggadah does not tell our story as we might imagine it, beginning with slavery in Egypt and highlighting Moses and Miriam, the heroes of the Exodus. In fact the Haggadah does not mention them at all.\n\nThis ia story about what G*d for me. There are only two main players tonight. G*d, whose outstreched hand and mighty arm take the Israelites out of Egypt. And me, each one of us who must see ourselves as if it were us, as individuals that came forth from slavery to freedom.\n\nOn other nights, other days we will be the one's to act, to break chains, provide for those who hunger, and repair the world. Tonight we though we sit at our table. We invite all who are hungry to eat and all who hunger for justice, peace, and freedom to come join us.", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/272841/welcome-star.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/272841/conversions/welcome-star-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 147, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Passover’s Paradox: This Night about Rising Up Is a Night of Sitting Down | Passover haggadah by Michael Bernstein", "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 youngest child traditionally poses the questions which, in fact, are not really questions but a four part statement. “How different this night is!” the child proclaims and then names some of these special foods and traditions. \n\nThe mah nishtana is part of a multipronged approach to keeping the children awake and alert for the story to come. In talmudic times there would also be nuts and parched kernels (think popcorn) to pique interest. At our seder we use marshmallows judiciously pelting anyone who “interrupts” to ask another question. Why make such a big deal to keep even the youngest child up late?\n\nRebbe Aryeh, the Zeide of Shpole taught that these customs are not only aimed at the children at the table but also the children within each of us, the children of Israel. We must stay awake as the night goes on, as the dark times continue and we are in danger of falling into despair. So on this night we do things to pay attention, we notice things and feed the part of us that can still wonder. That is still awake to possibilities.\n\nThe word nishtana - to be different - resembles the word for repeat and the word for learn. The Four Questions are an invitation to be aware of and to learn from everything, what is different on this night and what we expect to be part of every seder.\n\nEspecially this particular night when the differences are so great - maybe we have stayed inside for weeks and maybe we are not all around the same table and maybe theres a computer sitting next to the seder plate! But still on this night we are eating matza, having a bitter herb dipped in charoset, a vegetable dipped in salt water and, when we remember to, leaning over and somewhat awkwardly reminding ourselves that we eat in particular luxury. 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Martin Luther King Jr. from \"Birth of a New Nation\"\n\n<blockquote>\n There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom. There is something deep down within the very soul of man that reaches out for Canaan. Men cannot be satisfied with Egypt. They tried to adjust to it for a while. Many men have vested interests in Egypt, and they are slow to leave. Egypt makes it profitable to them, some people profit by Egypt. The vast majority, the masses of people never profit by Egypt, and they are never content with it. And eventually they rise up and begin to cry out for Canaan’s land. \n</blockquote>\n\nRabbi Abraha Joshua Heschel \"Religion and Race\"\n\n<blockquote>\n At the first conference on religion and race, the main participants were Pharaoh and Moses. Moses’ words were: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me.” While Pharaoh retorted: “Who is the Lord, that I should heed this voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover I will not let Israel go.” \n\n The outcome of that summit meeting has not come to an end. Pharaoh is not ready to capitulate. The exodus began, but is far from having been completed. In fact, it was easier for the children of Israel to cross the Red Sea than for a Negro to cross certain university campuses. \n\n Let us dodge no issues. Let us yield no inch to bigotry, let us make no compromise with callousness. \n</blockquote>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "Rev. 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They are easier to say, easier to remember and make it even easier to forget the devastation each wreaked. And that is the point. We say these letter combinations and take a drop of wine to remind us that even when we use other more anodyne words, euphemisms to describe the plagues it us on us to not let it get too easy. \n \nG*d famously tells the angels who want to sing at the drowning the Egyptian army, that the death of G*d's creatures is an occasion to remember the preciousness of life. We have an angel eye view, able to watch from anywhere the stories of others, devastation from wars, and statistics that sketch the shape and curve of a global crisis. We have no capacity to truly alllow ourselves to feel the sorrow just as we never could truly lean into what even a drop of the suffering in Egypt is like. Certainly it was not covered by a single drop of wine.\n\nYet at this moment we stop to at least take that much. Ten for the plagues we name. 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There was a time when leaning was a particularly lavish way of having a meal, surrounded by servants or slaves feeding the guests as they reclined on their couches and ate their delicacies. This kind of occasion in the Ancient world could be an opportunity to discuss matters of state and philosophy. And so the connection to the Greek word symposium, meaning to recline together.\n\n\n\nPerhaps the seder was the Rabbi’s version of a symposium on the story of the Exodus and the meaning of freedom. For a long time, however, the idea of leaning is more perfunctory, being particularly prescribed for certain moments in the seder, chiefly the drinking of wine and eating of matza and in some traditions the karpas as well. Notably, however, the maror, another of the central foods of the celebration, is not eaten while leaning. \n\n\n\nAt first glance, perhaps it is not surprising that we would not consume a symbol of bitterness in a position of luxury and leisure. However, the counter argument could be made. After all we lean as we eat matzah, the bread defined by the haste in which the Israelites ate on their last night as slaves. Is it any more a contradiction to combine leisure and urgency? \n\n\n\nBut the bitter herb is different. We must eat it to make sure we know what slavery meant. To remember that it was more than just constriction and being controlled, but was a life made bitter by the cruelty of taskmasters and the denial of dignity. We learn from the bitterness we face and that we recall facing. We respond to the great bitterness that many in the world feel. And we are, as human beings, drawn into the temptation of sinking into that bitterness. Not just swallowing maror, but allowing ourselves to be swallowed whole.\n\n\n\nInstead, the Seder gives us the opportunity to partake of maror but not indulge in it. Even as we lean into other aspects and lessons of slavery. we do not lean into being the bitterness of our past. 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Number one answer on the board for whywe eat it is to represent the mortar used to hold the bricks with which we were forced by Pharaoh to build his storehouses. Tangible, visceral connection to the back breaking deadly toil of slavery. But charoset is sweet. It has apples or dates, nuts, wine, ingredients evoking the sensual tastes and fragrances of the Song of Songs. We put it together on a sandwich with the maror to mitigate the bitterness. So how can mortar be something sweet.\n\nAnd that is what makes charoset so meaningful. While much of the seder emphasizes how once we labored but now we are free. charoset is a reminder that freedom also comes with work. No one should live in complete leisure especially while others work as or as if they are slaves.\n\n A nod to the way that work in the world should be fruitful for the worker themself, not a mode of slavery and drudgery. 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