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-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

enough

by Ariel Kates

enough

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-- Exodus Story, -- Ten Plagues

committed to life

by Ariel Kates

committed to life

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-- Exodus Story

may i love in ways

by Ariel Kates

may i love in ways

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Maggid - Beginning

storytelling with ourselves

by Ariel Kates

storytelling with ourselves

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Urchatz

the gift of curiosity

by Ariel Kates

the gift of curiosity

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Introduction

a note on antisemitism

by Ariel Kates

a note on antisemitism

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Conclusion, Nirtzah

next year where

by Ariel Kates

next year where

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Introduction

introduction - and they cried out

by Ariel Kates

I work at a holocaust museum. And in as many moments and sometimes beautiful hours between maniacally editing press releases and social media posts as I can, my team and I think endlessly about what we can do to end antisemitism. Obviously, we will never succeed, but we have to do something. I’ve also thought about what a Haggadah themed around antisemitism would look like - it would be a bummer, but it’s essential. We have to address genuinely centuries of...

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Maror

Maror Growing Wild

by Ariel Kates

Scholars inform us that bitter herbs were eaten at the Spring festival in ancient times. The sharpness of the taste awakened the senses and made the people feel at one with nature's revival. Here in the Shmita year, Maror is abundant.  What role does bitterness play in our lives? What is important about experiencing the sharpness of Maror? As we prepare to dip the maror into the sweet charoset, what does it look like for us to temper our bitterness with...

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Hallel

Elija and How We Treat Strangers

by Ariel Kates

In the ninth century B.C.E., a farmer arose to challenge the domination of the ruling elite. In his tireless and passionate advocacy on behalf of the common people, and his ceaseless exposure of the corruption and waste of the court, Elijah sparked a movement and created a legend which would inspire people for generations to come. Before he died, Elijah declared that he would return once each generation in the guise of any poor or oppressed person, coming to people's doors...

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Notes on Yisrael and Mitzraim from JFREJ

by Ariel Kates

A little commentary.. The word Yisrael (Israel) When found in the liturgy (religious text) does not refer to the modern nation/state of Israel, rather it derives from the blessing given to Ya'akov (Jacob) by a stranger with whom he wrestles all night. When the stranger is finally pinned, Ya'akov asks him for a blessing. The stranger says," Your name will no longer be Ya'akov but Yisrael for you have wrestled with G-d and triumphed." Therefore when we say "Yisrael" in prayer...

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-- Exodus Story

Keeping Outrage Alive

by Ariel Kates

"I have concluded that one way to pay tribute to those we loved who struggled, resisted and died is to hold on to their vision and their fierce outrage at the destruction of the ordinary life of their people. It is this outrage we need to keep alive in our daily life and apply to all situations, whether they involve Jews or non- Jews. It Is this outrage we must use to fuel our actions and vision whenever we see any...

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Kadesh

A Prayer for Peace

by Ariel Kates

The following is a Prayer for Peace that is traditionally included in the Shabbat (Sabbath) service. May these words come true: May we see the day when war and bloodshed cease when a great peace will embrace the whole world Then nation shall not threaten nation and humankind will not again know war. For all who live on earth shall realize we have not come into being to hate or destroy We have come into being to praise, to labour and...

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-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of Interbeing

by Ariel Kates

At the heart of Nhat Hanh's teachings is the idea that "understanding is love's other name" - that to love another means to fully understand his or her suffering. ("Suffering" sounds rather dramatic, but in Buddhism it refers to any source of profound dissatisfaction - be it physical or psychoemotional or spiritual.) Real, truthful love, he argued, is rooted in four elements - loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity - fostering which lends love "the element of holiness." The first of...

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Introduction

The Seder's Order

by Ariel Kates

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 that. Voices half harmonize on the...

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-- Four Questions

The Four Questions - An Exercise in Freedom

by Ariel Kates

It has been said that the ultimate testament to freedom is the ability to ask questions. A person with all the answers has no need to ask questions and is therefore not free to think for themselves, to wonder, and to open their mind to the possibility of learning something new. It is a blessing to us to be free enough to question the world around us, to learn more for ourselves, and to seek the answers to things that perplex...

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-- Four Children

The Four Children Approach the Future

by Ariel Kates

So, first of all, the four children appear in the Jerusalem Talmud, where Rabbi Hyyia, a student of Rabbi Judah the Prince, is quoted as bringing this parable. Hyyia's text varies quite a bit from the text we know today: for one, the simple child is not "simple" but stupid. But it is Rabbis at the time of the collection of the Mishnah and Talmud who are creating this rubric. And so we proceed: The "Wise" Child asks about the rules...

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Yachatz

Yachatz - This is How God Split the Red Sea

by Ariel Kates


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The Endless Questions of Liberation

The Endless Questions of Liberation

by Ariel Kates
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Where we flying to?

Where we flying to?

by Ariel Kates
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Landscapes in a Narrow Place

Landscapes in a Narrow Place

by Ariel Kates
"Love is an unfinished form of history" - Lin Hejinian
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Abandoning our Pharaohs: on the...

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shmita 2022 hagaddah

shmita 2022 hagaddah

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not by might and not by power

not by might and not...

by Ariel Kates
a haggadah of collecting welcoming, magic, & collective resistance against antisemitism (plus)
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Commentary / Readings

Liberation in God's Image. Progressive Islam as an Islamic Humanism

by Truah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

At the heart of a progressive Muslim interpretation is a simple yet radical idea: every human individual, female or male, Muslim or non-Muslim, rich or poor, of the “developed” North or “underdeveloped” South, has exactly the same intrinsic worth. The essential value of human life is God-given, and is in no way connected to culture, race, ethnicity, gender, geography, or privilege. A progressive Muslim is one who is committed to the strangely controversial idea that the true measure of a human...

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Maggid - Beginning

Excerpt from I Wasn't One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open, Closed, Open

by The Horowitzes

6. I wasn't one of the six million who died in the Shoah, I wasn't even among the survivors. And I wasn't one of the six hundred thousand who went out of Egypt. I came to the Promised Land by sea.  No, I was not in that number, though I still have the fire and the smoke within me, pillars of fire and pillars of smoke that guide me by night and by day. I still have inside me the mad...

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The Rabbis of Bene Brak - Passover Haggadah (1740)

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The Rabbis of Bene Brak - Passover Haggadah (1740)

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