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I Never Was Song by Linda Hirs
I Never Was First they came for the CommunistsI stood by silentlyI never was a CommunistWhat did it matter to meWhat did it matter (3) to me Then they came for the Union ...Songscontributed by Leo Rosenstein -
One Final Paragraph of Advice
"Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
Prayer After Eating
I have taken in the light that quickened eye and leaf. May my brain be bright with praise of what I eat, in the brief blaze of motion and of thought. May I be worthy of my meat.-Wendell BerryCovercontributed by Alan Scher -
The Third Cup
A cup to Ourselves, to all of us who are at this seder tonight, to the present moment. We must love ourselves, for we are holy, and we have been created out of all that is. Let us take this moment to honor our bodies, our lives, a ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
Setting Ourselves Apart
The first step to growth is to realize we are worthy of growth. We need to see the value of who we are so we will see that we are worthy of investing time, energy, and effort into developing our spiritual potential.Kadesh is the f ...Kadeshcontributed by Lisa Kaufman -
Answers to the Four Questions
The Children at the Seder ask us "Why is this night different from all other nights?" and thus begins the retelling of the story of Exodus. Each of us pulls our own meaning from the Passover Story, but rarely do we have a chance t ...Covercontributed by Paul Goldner -
Three Conclusions from the Exo
1. Wherever you live, it is probably Mitzrayim.2. There is a better place, a promised land.3. The way to this promised land is through the wilderness -- there is no way to get ther ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
God acting through nature
Mysterious little things happen to me all the time. Once I tripped and a ball zoomed past my head, narrowly missing me. Another time, I fell ill and missed a science exam for which I studied the wrong material.Those little t ...-- Ten Plaguescontributed by Chacha Rotenberg -
The Second Cup
A cup to our teachers: To those we have known and those whose work has inspired us, and made space for our lives. We are graeful to you who did and said things for the first time, who claimed and reclaimed our traditions, who forg ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
Four Parents
Some scholars believe there are four kinds of parents as well.The Wise Parent is an utter bore. "Listen closely, because you are younger than I am," says the Wise Parent, "and I will go on and on about Jewish history, based on som ...Covercontributed by Alan Scher -
Adorno and Horkheimer on Judai
The Jewish religion brooks no word which might bring solace to the despair of all mortality. It places all hope in the prohibition on invoking falsity as God, the finite as the inf ...Bareichcontributed by Ajay Chaudhary -
Levinas on the Other
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, whic ...-- Closingcontributed by Ajay Chaudhary -
Introductory Reflection
The only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all is reco ...Covercontributed by Ajay Chaudhary -
Order
Seder, in Hebrew, means 'order'. Order has many meanings, and all appear during Passover.Order organizes. During the seder, we order the prayers, the readings, the meal. Each tradition has its slot. We move from one experience to ...Introductioncontributed by Ezra Match -
The Future, the Past, and the
In Talmud Pesachim, Rava teaches, "A person who swallows matzah without chewing fills the mitzvah, the commandment, to eat matzah. However, a person who swallows maror without chew ...Koreichcontributed by Ezra Match -
Reflection on Maror
When we eat the maror, it makes our eyes water. Its bitterness turns our faces red. We lose control for a moment, and laugh because it's freeing. We cannot keep up appearances while eating maror, and so we don't try to.Our sinuses ...Marorcontributed by Ezra Match
