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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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    Kiddush-Cup 1

    Thank you, Adonai, for giving us so many reasons to celebrate, and for family and friends to celebrate with. Baruch ata adonai eloheinu melech haolam, borei pri hagafen. Blessed is the maker of the fruit of the vine! ...
    Kadesh
    contributed by Mindy Longoni
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    Why we remember

    Bell HooksIf I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundam ...
    Cover
    contributed by Ariela Rothstein
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    The 21 Jump Street

    I call this exercise The 21 Jump Street. It's a reference to the card game that the characters play in the opening sequence of the show, but that's mostly me having fun. The title is less relevant than the exercise itself.Mat ...
    -- Exodus Story
    contributed by David Wolkin
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    dayenu

    Ilu hotzi, hotzianuHotzianu miMitzrayim (2x) Dayenu. Chorus: Dai, dai, enu (3x) Dayenu dayenu. Ilu natan natan lanuNatan lanu et haShabbat (2x) Dayenu. Chorus: Ilu natan natan lanuNatan lanu ...
    -- Closing
    contributed by Jacqueline
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    1st Cup

    There are four cups of wine during the Seder…The Four Cups symbolize four distinct promises made by G-d in Exodus 6:6-7: Cup of Sanctification: “I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians” (ESV).C ...
    Kadesh
    contributed by Jacqueline
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    Blessing Over the Candles

    Blessing Over the Candles Women: Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kidshanu bid’varo, v’natan lanu et Yeshua Mishikhenu, vitzivanu l’hiyot or la-olam. Blessed art Thou, O L-RD our G-d, King ofthe U ...
    Introduction
    contributed by Jacqueline
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    Introduction

    Welcome to the annual Leisure World community seder. The Leisure World Jewish Community conducts this seder not only for its own members, but also for all residents of Leisure World of Virginia who might wish to know more about t ...
    Introduction
    contributed by Lansdowne Mike
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    Washing of the Hands (Buddhist

    As Rachel welcomed strangers at the well with water, so do we welcome each other to this Seder by washing the hands of thos at our table.  We are not washing ourselves of dirt ...
    Cover
    contributed by Lauren Kahn
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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