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    Candle Blessing

    Usually on Pesach one first recites the blessings and then lights the candles without covering one’s eyes.May these candles, lit on the Festival of Freedom, bring light into our hearts and minds. May they renew our courage to ac ...
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    contributed by Stephanie Kravatz
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    Why Drink Four Cups on Passove

    Just where did the rabbis themselves determine the idea of instituting four cups of wine? The rabbis wrote these instructions in Tractate Pesachim during the time of Roman rule in ...
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    contributed by Daniel Gropper
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    The Four Cups

    The Four Cups by Rabbi Yael LevyIt is time, the Infinite calls,ComeV’hotzeyti, I will take you outV’hitzalti, I will deliver you to a new placeV’ga’alti, I will help you to transformV’lakachti, I will take you into relat ...
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    contributed by Daniel Gropper
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    Hashomer First Cup

    כוס ראשוןכוס ישועות נישא ליציאת ישראל.משיעבוד לחרות,מגולה לגאולה,לחיים ולישועה! The First CupA cup of deliverance we raiseTo commemorate the exodus from Egypt ...
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    contributed by Isabel Frey
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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! ...
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    contributed by Mindy Longoni
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    Kiddush

    Kiddush - Wine READER: The joy of Passover is the joy of love; the hope of Passover is the hope of love. Our ancestors suffered the coldness of hate and dreamed of the warmth of human kindness and universal love. And then, after ...
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    contributed by Lisa Marquardt
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    Thanksgiving

    Baruch Ata Adonai Elohaynoo melech ha-olam hazen et ha-olam koolo b'toovo b'chen b'chesed oov'rachameem. Hoo notayn lechem l'chol basar kee l'olam chasdo, oov'toovo ha-gadol tameed lo chasar lanoo mazon l'olam va'ed. Ba'ayoor sh'm ...
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    contributed by VBS