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    PLAGUES

     SourceAdapted from The Jewish Secular Community Passover Haggadah Reader: It saddens us that any struggle for freedom involves suffering. Generally, we drink wine to rejoice. Therefore, for each plague we take out a drop of ...
    -- Ten Plagues
    contributed by EJ Moldow
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    The Cup of Redemption

    There, in the very center of the Seder table, stands a special, ornate kiddush-cup brimming with wine, awaiting the one still expected but as yet un-arrived guest -- the prophet Elijah. Will Elijah come this year, to drink of ...
    Hallel
    contributed by Gerald Weiss
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    Two Cups - Elijah's and M

    Everybody knows that we place a cup of wine for the prophet Eliah at the center of the Seder table. At a dramatic moment in the Seder, the door is opened to welcome this usually un ...
    Hallel
    contributed by Gerald Weiss
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    Parsley, Sages, Saltwater and

    We dip a green vegetable, often parsley, into saltwater and recite the blessing for green foods that grow in the ground.Why? The traditional reason, according to the Sages of the a ...
    Karpas
    contributed by Gerald Weiss
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    Avadim Hayinu (We were slaves

    We were slaves in Egypt,So long ago.An evil king oppressed us,That cruel Pharaoh!God sent MosesTo redeem us,To take us out of slavery.That's how God kept the promiseTo set us free. ...
    -- Exodus Story
    contributed by Gerald Weiss
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    Dayenu (English - song))

    If God had only set us free,Redeemed us all from slavery,That would have been enough for me!Dayenu...If God had given us Shabbat,That really would have meant a lot,But did God stop there?No, God did not!Dayenu...God's Torah we wer ...
    -- Closing
    contributed by Gerald Weiss