Haggadot Contributors

---

Our tale to tell, both happy and sad, like all great lore, some good, some bad On our table the symbols abound you needn't look far, they're all around Look on your plate, for parsley green a sign of Spring when it is seen. And somewhere near there is salt water, tears of slavery, hard work with mortar And so together, we now recall the green around, the tears that fall. Ba-ruch A-tah A-do-nai, E-lo-hei-nu Me-lech Ha-o-lam, Bo-rei pe-ree ha-a-da-mah. Oh...

---

"Break the middle matzah on the matzah plate. This is called the Yachatz --literally-- the breaking. We break the matzah and hide one part (the Afikomen). We recognize that liberation is made by imperfect people, broken, fragmented — so don’t be waiting until you are totally pure, holy, spiritually centered, and psychologically healthy to get involved in tikkun (the healing and repair of the world). It will be imperfect people, wounded healers, who do the healing as we simultaneously work on...

---

Clip Text #5 – “The First Step” Source: On Being Free, by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. 1995, Jason Aronson Inc. Passover, the festival of the Exodus from Egypt, is imprinted on all the days of the year. Moreover, the "memory of the Exodus from Egypt" is mentioned on almost every festive occasion. What makes the Exodus from Egypt so important? The Jewish festivals are first and foremost historical festivals: each one is a remembrance of a certain event in Jewish history....