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President Obama on Passover
Passover is a story of centuries of slavery, and years of wandering in the desert; a story of perseverance amidst persecution, and faith in God and the Torah. It is a story about finding freedom in your own land. For the Jewish pe ...Introductioncontributed by Daniel Gropper -
Candle Lighting
…בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ לְהַדלִיק נֵר שֶׁל יוֹם טוֹב.Baruc ...Kadeshcontributed by donna leventhal -
Why Do We Dip Twice?!?
Part of the Seder if not only talking about the past, but also about the future and about rebuilding the 3rd Beit HaMikdash in Yerushalayim. Did you know that the 1st Seder always falls out on the same day of Tisha B'Av. ...Marorcontributed by Talia Kupferman -
What Destroyer?!?
We all know the story of the Jews cooking the lamb, eating it, putting the blood on their doors and God then passing over (hense, Passover) But, lets actually look at the words from the Torah. In Shemot Perek י’'ב Pasuk ...-- Exodus Storycontributed by Talia Kupferman -
Why Karpas?!?
Q) Why do we even eat and dip Karpas in the first place?A) There are 2 answers:1) to remind us of the tears from the Jews as slaves in Egypt. 2) The Gamarah says: on the Seder we overall, just do weird and unusual things. Now ...Karpascontributed by Talia Kupferman -
Dreams and Details: The Meanin
Imagine you are a slave. And not only that--your parents were slaves, too. And their parents before them. And their parents, too. If there is one seemingly incontrovertible, self-e ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Grace Wichmann -
From Commandment to Companions
God's activity in the Exodus is two-fold: dismantling Egyptian society through the plagues on the one hand, and disclosing the first mitzvot to Israel - counting time and the Pesah ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Grace Wichmann -
What is the story of the Jewis
If you were to write the story of the Jewish people, what would it be? What major plot elements would you include? How would you frame the arc of the story? In many ways, this ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Grace Wichmann -
Mah Nishtanah from ShalomLearn
Chag Smaeach from ShalomLearning! Join UMD Hillel' ...-- Four Questionscontributed by Emily Dubick -
Intro
Welcome to our Seder. In many traditional Haggadahs the introduction speaks to the "persecution of the Jews in every generation." However with the suffering of so many people and groups of people, this characterization has lost it ...Covercontributed by Joanne Pessin -
Four Questions
מַה נִּשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּֽיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלֵּילותMa nishtana halaila hazeh mikol haleilot?Why is this night different from all other nights?:שֶׁבְּכָל הַלֵּילוֹ ...-- Four Questionscontributed by Stephanie Friedman -
הא לחמא עניא- Ha Lac
הא לחמא עניא- Ha Lachma AnyaMagid starts with Ha Lachma Anya. We invite anyone to come join us at our seder. Ha Lachma Anya is not said in Hebrew, like the rest of t ...Maggid - Beginningcontributed by Stephanie Friedman -
Joseph the Unrighteous
My article criticizing Joseph's ecnomic policies in Egypt-- Exodus Storycontributed by Berel Dov Lerner
