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Passover is about freedom. But when it comes to the seder, many of us are lost. This website is a resource for Jews of all backgrounds to make the Haggadah that finally feels meaningful for a contemporary seder, with unique perspectives gathered from individuals worldwide. Whatever your background, Haggadot.com invites you to find your place in the Passover conversation through the seder's central text, the haggadah. Now you can access classical texts and contemporary interpretations to create a more personalized Passover experience.

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An Extraordinary Word for Good

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When I grew up in Ukraine in the city of Oonetsk, there were people of various nationalities living there. Their 10 certificates had the word 'Russian,' 'Ukraine,' 'Georgian,' 'Kozaki,' it wasn't that important and there wasn't much of a difference. One thing was important - if it had the word 'Jewish' written on it, that would be as if you had some disease. We knew nothing about Judaism, except antisemitism and hatred towards us. That's why no one tried to replace...

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Maggid - Beginning

The Seder's Order

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The Seder's Order by Marge Piercy The songs we join in are beeswax candles burning with no smoke a clean fire licking at the evening our voices small flames quivering. The songs string us like beads on the hour. The ritual is its own melody that leads us where we have gone before and hope to go again, the comfort of year after year. Order: we must touch each base of the haggadah as we pass, blessing, handwashing, dipping this and...

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Brombacher Haggadah Illustration

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Brombacher Haggadah Illustration

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O, Let My People Go/Go Down Moses

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These are some of the original lyrics heard and written down in 1851 These are some of the original lyrics heard and written down in 1851 by Rev. L. C. Lockwood, chaplain of the “contrabands” at Fort Munroe Virginia. “Contrabands” was the name given to those who ran north to escape slavery during the Civil War. The Lord by Moses to Pharaoh said, O, Let My People Go! If not I’ll smite your first born dead, Then, Let My People Go! ...

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Questions to Ask Around the Seder Table

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Questions to ask around the Seder table ● How are the two stories of slavery and liberation – the Passover story of the Israelites and the African-American story – alike, and how are they different? ● In what ways are the descendants of those who wrote the song "Go Down Moses" still experiencing oppression? ● How might making a yearly Passover acknowledgement contribution make a difference to you and to those who receive the contribution?

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Passover Song Acknowledgement Project: Let My People Go

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In the Haggadah it is written: “Whoever expands upon the story of the Exodus from Egypt is worthy of praise” (Rambam, Hilkhot Hametz uMatzah 7:1). Tonight, let us expand upon the telling of the Exodus by asking questions about the African-American Spiritual “Go Down Moses,” a song that Jews have sung at Seder tables for more than half a century. What are the origins of this song? “Go Down Moses” (also known as “Let My People Go”) was written by enslaved...

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-- Four Questions

Four Questions in Ukrainian

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Чим ця ніч відрізняється від усіх інших ночей? Mah nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol haleilot? Why is this night different from all other nights? В інші ночі ми їможемо їсти і хамец, і мацу. Чому в цю ніч - лише мацу? Sheb’chol haleilot anu ochlin chametz umatzah, halailah hazeh, kuloh matzah. On all other nights we eat both leavened bread and matzah. Tonight we only eat matzah. В інші ночі ми можемо їсти будь-які овочі. Чому в цю ніч - лише марор?...

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Sunflowers

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Sunflowers

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Shulchan Oreich

Sunflowers On Your Table

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Sunflowers On Your Table

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The Avengers Eat Shawarma

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The Avengers Eat Shawarma

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-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Infinity Stone Dayenu

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Infinity Stone Dayenu

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Mixing The Sweet And The Bitter

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Mixing The Sweet And The Bitter

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Yakumin Ki Medonad (Bukhari Translation)

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Make Them Eat It

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Make Them Eat It

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Shulchan Oreich

Golden Girls Shulchan Oreich

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Golden Girls Shulchan Oreich

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-- Four Questions

Four Questions in Fictional Languages

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Four Questions in Fictional Languages

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-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Time For Another Glass Of Wine!

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Time For Another Glass Of Wine!

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David's Karpas Vegetable

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David's Karpas Vegetable

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Liberal Haggadah

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A selection of contemporary interpretations & readings, with many clips from our friends at JewishBoston.com, as well as original illustrations from our Haggadot.com design team.

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Greatest Hits Haggadah

Greatest Hits Haggadah

We've asked our community to help select their favorite readings from the past four years. 2011 - 2014 Enjoy!

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A Haggadah for Justice

A Haggadah for Justice

A compilation of our favorite readings about Equality, Human Rights, and Civil Rights.

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Love and Justice in Times of War

Love and Justice in Times...

Compiled and created by Dara Silverman and Micah Bazant, [email protected] anti-copyright Pesach 5763/2003

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Our Favorites For Families

Our Favorites For Families

Includes over 80 selections of songs, activities, jokes & simple explanations of ritual for kids & teens.

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Preparing the Table

by Rabbi Zoë Klein

This is a compilation of ideas to help the seder be fun and engaging for the entire family. Fun ideas for preparing the Passover table: 1. Include a Tzedakka box on the table. Have everyone put money in the tzedakah box before eating. 2. Yemenite Jews line the edge of the table all around with leaves of Romaine lettuce. The lettuce is then used for Maror. 3. Use maps of Egypt, Israel, and the Sinai desert as place mats. 4. Put...

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-- Four Questions

Four Questions (sephardi)

by Sara Smith

Sephardim recite the Four Questions in the following order: 1. "On all other nights, we do not dip even once. Why on this night do we dip twice?" 2. "On all other nights we eat bread or matzah. Why on this night do we eat only matzah? 3. "On all other nights, we eat all kinds of herbs. Why on this night do we eat only maror? 4. "On all other nights, we eat either sitting or reclining. Why on this...

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Ten Plagues (sephardi)

by Sara Smith

Now let's talk about the ten plagues. There was no dipping of fingers in wine. We were much too refined for that! My mother would walk up to my father with a large bowl and a glass of water. My father would recite the plagues one by one, and for each plague he would pour a bit of wine in the bowl from a special large wineglass, and my mother would pour a bit of the water. It was all done...

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Maggid - Beginning

Additions to the Seder Plate

by Religious Action Center

Alongside the traditional items on the Seder Plate, try some of these modern additions. Following Operation Solomon, the Ethiopian Jews who arrived in Israel were unable to digest much substantial food. Thus, Israel's doctors fed the new immigrants simple boiled potatoes and rice, until their systems could take more food. To commemorate this at the Seder, you may choose to eat small red potatoes, alongside the parsley, for Karpas. Announce to those present that this is in remembrance of the wondrous...

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Four Cups of Wine

by Religious Action Center

While our tradition applies specific meaning to the four cups of wine found within the Passover seder, many modern Haggadot have begun to reinterpret the original four cups. The four cups are derived from four expressions of redemption found in Exodus 6:6-7: “I will bring you out;” “I will deliver you;” “I will redeem you;” and “I will take you.” Due to the positive, redemptive focus of each phrase, each cup could come to represent current groups that need to be...

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Ha Lachma Anya/ This is the Bread of Affliction

by Religious Action Center

This reading takes place near the beginning of the Seder in the yachatz section. It provides the primary textual inspiration for feeding the hungry during Passover, as well as calling for an end to slavery, which continues to exist around the world in various forms. It also prompts us to join together with members of the African American community for communal Seders recognizing our common experience of slavery. This passage inspires many of the social justice programs created around the observance...

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-- Exodus Story

A Labor Haggadah Companion - Passover Supplement

by Religious Action Center

In every generation, each of us should feel as though we ourselves had gone forth from Egypt. In every generation, each of us should feel as though we ourselves had been freed from bondage. In every generation, each of us should feel as though we ourselves fought for humane conditions in the workplace. God may have freed us from bondage in Egypt with an outstretched arm, but redemption from injustice in the workplace, be it a non-living wage, oppression of undocumented...

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Fourth Piece of Matzah

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To highlight the continuing existence of slaver, spiritual leaders and families may use the following original prayer, written Rabbi Joel Soffin of Temple Shalom in Succasunna, NJ, while holding up a fourth piece of matzah: "We raise this fourth matzah to remind ourselves that slavery still exists, that people are still being bought and sold as property, that the Divine image within them is yet being denied. We make room at our Seder table and in our hearts for those in...

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-- Four Questions

The Four Questions

by Religious Action Center

This reading allows for much creativity in the text and inclusion of social action themes or questions. Families might permit time for additional questions to be posed to the group, with opportunities for all to answer. Examples might include: 1. Why on this night are some people still enslaved today? 2. Why on this night do so many remain hungry in the world? 3. Why on this night do we invite the hungry and lonely to share our meal? 4. How...

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-- Four Children

Four Children

by Religious Action Center

This reading allows for much personal identification and further interpretation in the text. A discussion can take place regarding with which of the four children each guest identifies most, followed by a consideration of which populations are currently “unable to ask,” who might be considered “simple,” and more. Examples for a new set of four children may include: 1. One who sees the pain of others and works to relieve suffering. 2. One who cares only about him/herself. 3. One who...

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