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Ten Ways to Destroy Your Life

by morah izzy

A traveler once was stopped by a highway robber who demanded his moneybag at gunpoint. “I’ll give you my money!” said the traveler. “But please, if I come home emptyhanded, my wife will never believe that I was robbed, and will accuse me of having squandered the money on gambling or liquor, and she will beat me mercilessly. Please, do me the favor of firing several bullets through my hat, so I can prove to her that I was held up.”The...

Dayenu Verse 13

by morah izzy

If He had given us the Torah, and had not brought us into the land of Israel — Dayenu, it would have sufficed! Ilu natan lanu et hatorah, v'lo hichnisanu l'eretz yisra’eil, dayeinu אִלּוּ נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת הַתּוֹרָה וְלֹא הִכְנִיסָנוּ לְאֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל דַּיֵּנוּ

Chabad Soul Hallel

by morah izzy

The ancient rabbis clued us in on a key principle in cosmic functions: Whatever He tells us to do, He does Himself. Of course, there’s a difference: We do it in our little human world. He does it on a cosmic plane.He told us to open our door on the night of Passover. So, tonight, He opens every door and every gateway of the spiritual cosmos to every member of the Jewish People. To each one of us, regardless of what...

Shloshah Eser yodeah

by morah izzy

Thirteen are the temperaments of God שלושה עשר מידיא

Dayenu Verse 12

by morah izzy

If He had brought us before Mount Sinai, and had not given us the Torah — Dayenu, it would have sufficed! Ilu keirvanu lifnei har sinai,v'lo natan lanu et hatorah, Dayenu אִלּוּ קֵרְבָנוּ לִפְנֵי הַר סִינַי וְלֹא נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת הַתּוֹרָה דַּיֵּנוּ

Chabad Soul Bareich

by morah izzy

The theme of grace after meals is confidence. Confidence in a Higher Force that is with us in our daily lives. With that confidence you don’t just see food before you. You see a river of life travelling from Above onto your plate.When we say this out loud, with joy and sincerity, we initiate a reciprocal current. The energy we receive is bounced back with even greater force, replenishing all the higher worlds and ethereal beings through which it passed on...

Shnaim Eser Mi Yodea

by morah izzy

Twelve are the tribes of Israel שנים עשר שיבטיא

Chabad Soul Tzafun

by morah izzy

In the Kabbalah, it is explained that there is something deeper than the soul. There is the body, the spirit, and then there is the essence. If the soul is light, then that essence is the source of light. If it is energy, then the essence is the dynamo. It is called "tzafun," meaning hidden, buried, locked away and out of reach.Whatever we do, we dance around that essence-core, like a spacecraft in orbit, unable to land. We can meditate, we...

Dayenu Verse 11

by morah izzy

If He had given us the Shabbat,and had not brought us before Mount Sinai Dayenu, it would have sufficed! Ilu natan lanu et hashabbat, v'lo keirvanu lifnei har sinai, Dayenu אִלּוּ נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת הַשַּׁבָּת וְלֹא קֵרְבָנוּ לִפְנֵי הַר סִינַי דַּיֵּנוּ

Echat Esrai Mi Yodeah

by morah izzy

Eleven are the stars of the Joseph's dream אחד עשר כוכביא

Shulchan Oreich

Chabad Soul Shulchan Orech

by morah izzy

This step, along with Korech before it, marks the re-entry we mentioned at the beginning. We’ve escaped Egypt and reached a higher vision. And then we start the process again -- on a higher level.Because freedom consists of more than escape. Complete freedom is when you can turn around and liberate all the elements of your world from their pure material state, and make them transcendent as well.That’s what we do when we eat every day—we take foods which grow from...

Dayenu Verse 10

by morah izzy

If He had fed us the manna, and had not given us the Shabbat — Dayenu, it would have sufficed! Ilu he'echilanu et haman, v'lo natan lanu et hashabbat, dayeinu! אִלּוּ הֶאֱכִילָנוּ אֶת הַמָּן וְלֹא נָתַן לָנוּ אֶת הַשַּׁבָּת דַּיֵּנוּ

Esray Mi Yodeah

by morah izzy

Ten are the Commandments עשרה דיבריא

Chabad Soul Koreich

by morah izzy

In the view from within Egypt, this world is a mess of fragments. It’s called “The Passoverly Challenged Perspective.” Plain materialism. Where mitzvahsare a mishmash of dos and don’ts, Jews are a collection of irreconcilable riffraff, daily life is a cacophony of hassles and, well, just stuff.Once we blast off far enough to escape materialism’s gravitational pull, we look back down and see a whole new perspective: It’s all a single landscape.From up there looking down, mitzvahs are multiple expressions of...

Chabad Soul Maror

by morah izzy

What's so great about the bitterness? Why do we want to remermber that ?Actually, our bitterness in Egypt was/is the key to our redemption. We never got used to Egypt. We never felt we belonged there. We never said, “They are the masters and we are the slaves and that’s the way it is.” It always remained something we felt bitter about, something that was unjust and needed to change.If it hadn’t been that way, we probably would never have left....

Dayenu Verse 9

by morah izzy

If He had supplied our needs in the desert for forty years, and had not fed us the manna — Dayenu, it would have sufficed! Ilu sipeik tzorkeinu bamidbar arba'im shana, v'lo he'echilanu et haman, dayeinu! אִלּוּ סִפֵּק צָרַכֵּנוּ בַּמִּדְבָּר אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה וְלֹא הֶאֱכִילָנוּ אֶת הַמָּן דַּיֵּנוּ

Tisha Mi yodeah

by morah izzy

Nine are the months of the pregnant תישעה ירחי לידה

Dayenu Verse 8

by morah izzy

If He had drowned our oppressors in it, and had not supplied our needs in the desert for forty years Dayenu, it would have sufficed! Ilu shika tzareinu b’tocho, v'lo sipeik tzorkeinu bamidbar arba'im shana, dayeinuאִלּוּ שִׁקַע צָרֵינוּ בְּתוֹכוֹ וְלֹא סִפֵּק צָרַכֵּנוּ בַּמִּדְבָּר אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה דַּיֵּנוּ

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Grace After the Meal

by Eileen Levinson

Leader: Let us say grace. Company: Let us bless Him of whose bounty we have partaken and through whose goodness we live. Leader: Praised art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who sustainest the world with goodness, with grace, and with infinite mercy. Thou givest food unto every creature, for Thy mercy endureth for ever. Company: Through Thy great goodness, food has not failed us. May it never fail us at any time, for the sake of Thy...

Nirtzah

by Uri L'Tzedek

By: Rabbi Ari Weiss At the close of the Haggadah, after moving from past humiliations to future hopes, a surprise! A piyut, or liturgical poem, first quoted in Sefer Rokeach (1160-1238), that returns to the Haggadic theme of retribution but on a deeper, more fundamental register. Nature is a "war of all against all."[1] The cat that attacks is attacked just as the Egyptians who oppressed are oppressed. "Nature red in tooth and claw."[2] And so it goes. Violence always escalating,...

-- Four Questions

Ma Nishtana questions game by El Toratrón

by Evelyn Goldfinger

Ma Nishtana questions game by El Toratrón

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

Dayenu with Hebrew and English

by Danielle & Misha Slutsky

If He had brought us out from Egypt אִלּוּ הוֹצִיאָנוּ מִמִּצְרָיִםand had not carried out judgments against them וְלֹא עָשָׂה בָּהֶם שְׁפָטִים— Dayenu, it would have been enough דַּיֵּנוּIf He had carried out judgments against them אִלּוּ עָשָׂה בָּהֶם שְׁפָטִיםand not against their idols וְלֹא עָשָׂה בֵּאלֹהֵיהֶם— Dayenu, it would have been enough דַּיֵּנוּIf He had destroyed their idols אִלּוּ עָשָׂה בֵּאלֹהֵיהֶםand had not smitten their first-born וְלֹא הָרַג אֶת בְּכוֹרֵיהֶם— Dayenu, it would have been enough דַּיֵּנוּIf He had smitten...

-- Exodus Story

The Four Answers

by Rachel Cherrick

Where do we find the answers? The answers are in the story itself.Avadim Hayinu. We were slaves in Mitzrayim. Our ancestors in their flight from bondage in Mitzrayim did not have time to let their dough rise. With not a moment to spare they snatched up the dough they had prepared and fled. But the hot sun beat as they carried the dough along with them and baked it into the flat unleavened bread we call matzah. In memory of this,...

Maggid - Beginning

Avadim Hayinu- Andy Elyakim

by Elie Ganz

היינו‎ עבדים (We were slaves). Shmuel and Rav disagreed about the perspective of the central story to be shared at the Seder table. Why was it that that the rabbis disagreed on how the story of Pesach should be shared at the seder? I believe that this was because Shmuel proposed that the story was to explain of how the Jews came from physical slavery to liberation and Rav showed that the main lesson of the seder was of our turning...

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