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won't you celebrate with
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on ...Nirtzahcontributed by Hila Ratzabi -
Adrienne Rich on freedom
Freedom. It isn’t once, to walk outunder the Milky Way, feeling the riversof light, the fields of dark—freedom is daily, prose-bound, routineremembering. Putting together, inch by inchthe starry worlds. From all the lost colle ...Nirtzahcontributed by Hila Ratzabi -
Skeptical Elijah Poem
ElijahHiWhat are you?The tangible intangibleThe direct test of faithThe product of traditionI don’t understandIs it wrongThat I can’t see youAnd I can’t believe you? ...Nirtzahcontributed by Tennessee Lieberman -
I Shall be Released
I Shall be ReleasedBob DylanThey say evrything can be replaced, Yet evry distance is not near. So I remember evry face Of evry man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, ...Nirtzahcontributed by shai cherry -
Counting the Omer
On Pesah we begin counting the Omer, a 49 day period to Shavuot, we can have as an Omer practice becoming more conscious of our consumption patterns, perhaps not buying any new non-consumables (things that we do not use up, i.e. f ...Nirtzahcontributed by Mordechai Liebling -
Monty Python Haggadah: Conclus
Narrator: We conclude tonight's program with the question, 'Is there life after death?'. And here to discuss this question are three dead people. The late Pharaoh Ramse ...Nirtzahcontributed by Sue Kayton -
The Wandering is Over Haggadah
Ending the seder and thinking about the future | nirtzah | נִרְצָה Our seder is over, according to Jewish tradition and law. As we had the pleasure to gather for a sed ...Nirtzahcontributed by JewishBoston.com -
My Journey Through the Haggada
We have now concluded the whole of the Seder celebration according to the regulations and precepts that have been laid down for us by our teachers. We have invited those who are ne ...Nirtzahcontributed by Yekutiel Atkins -
Nirtzah
By: Rabbi Ari Weiss At the close of the Haggadah, after moving from past humiliations to future hopes, a surprise! A piyut, or liturgical poem, first quoted in Sefer Rokeach (1160-1238), that returns to the Haggadic theme of retr ...Nirtzahcontributed by Uri L'Tzedek -
CSJO: Land of Milk and Honey
Reader 51: For centuries, at the Seder’s conclusion, Jews repeated the phrase “next year in Jerusalem”. They longed for their homeland. It would be comforting to end this story in the land of milk and honey. But, in fact, th ...Nirtzahcontributed by Congress of Secular Jewish Organization -
Cup of Elijah
This section of the Haggadah focuses on our hopes for the peace and redemption of messianic times, while also reminding us of what we can do l'taken et ha-olam, to repair the world in our own time. This reading reminds us that the ...Nirtzahcontributed by Tzedek: Jewish Action for Modern World -
My Journey Through the Haggada
We have now concluded the whole of the Seder celebration according to the regulations and precepts that have been laid down for us by our teachers. We have invited those who are ...Nirtzahcontributed by Yekutiel Atkins -
Next Year in Jerusalem
Traditionally, Jerusalem has been the focus of longing for Diaspora Jews who were forced from their land and the Temple of their God. Psalm 137 is the well-known lament of the Babylonian Jews who wept "by the rivers of Babylon" an ...Nirtzahcontributed by MyJewishLearning.com -
Neertzah
The tasks ahead? Once again we have recited the age-old epic of our liberation from slavery. We have tasted the new growth of a world released from winter We have celebrated advances our, and other peoples of the world, have made ...Nirtzahcontributed by Mark Hurvitz -
Nirtzah
NIRTZAH ~ Closing Reader: At the end of the seder, Jews have always vowed to one another:“L’shana haba-a bi-Y’rushalayim/ Next Year in Jerusalem!” Why does the seder end with this vow? Reader: For Jews, forced into diaspor ...Nirtzahcontributed by Meredith Blumoff
