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Top 10 Signs Your Seder might
10. 4 words: "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Haggada" 9. Charlie Sheen is attending and will perform a paragraph entitled "The Warlock Son" 8. You skip ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by isaac galena -
JWW: What's on your seder
The six powerful symbols of the Seder plate embody the Passover story of suffering, liberation and renewal. These symbols resonate in the context of the genocide in Darfur, now in ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Michelle Westmiller -
Afikomen Hunt: Now and Later
This Passover reading, for children ages 7-11, is part of a series of three Passover readings for children and adults created by American Jewish World Service (AJWS) to connect the holiday of Passover to the theme “from disaster ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by American Jewish World Service -
Chag v'Chesed: Holiday Dv
Written by Dr. Judith Plaskow One of the central ethical injunctions of the Torah is not to wrong or oppress the stranger, for we were strangers in the land of Egypt (Exodus 22:20) ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by American Jewish World Service -
Chag v'Chesed: Holiday Dv
Sustained by Justice Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson Each year, we gather around our seder tables, surrounded by friends and family, to recount the tale of our ancestors' miraculous de ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by American Jewish World Service -
Chag v'Chesed: Holiday Dv
Changing the World, with God By Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen The Torah takes great pains, long before the Exodus narrative, to make clear to its readers that it wants far more than m ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by American Jewish World Service -
In Search of Freedom: A Passov
A Prayer for the People of Darfur By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks O God of peace, who commands us to seek peace, send peace to the people of Darfur. O God of compassion, who hear ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by American Jewish World Service -
Door of Hope
“Pharonic oppression, deliverance, Sinai, and Canaan are still with us as powerful memories shaping our perceptions of the political world. The “door of hope” is still open; things are not what they might be even when what t ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by VBS -
Chag v'Chesed: Holiday Dv
By Michael Walzer Every Jew knows that Pesach is a holiday of liberation. We remember that we were strangers and slaves in Egypt, eat the bitter herbs, discuss the cruelty of ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by American Jewish World Service -
In Search of Freedom: A Passov
One of the hallmarks of the seder is the welcoming of Elijah the prophet into our homes for the latter part of the evening. Why Elijah? Because according to biblical an ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by American Jewish World Service -
The Artichoke on the Seder Pla
The seder plate holds the main symbols of a traditional Passover seder-- the shank bone, egg, karpas, charoset, and maror. The Kabbalists of the Middle Ages added hazeret, another ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by InterfaithFamily.com -
Ha Lachma / A Blessing for the
Here is an idea for linking ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Gilah Langner -
Counting the Omer (Hebrew)
הִנְנִי מוכָן ומְזֻמָן לְקַיֵם מִצְוַת עֲשֵה שֶל סְפִירַת הָעֹמֶר . בָרוךְ אַתָה ייָ אֱלֹהֵינו מֶלֶךְ העֹולָם אֲשֶר קִדְשָנו ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Sara Smith -
At this link is sheet music for a new melody for "Ki Lo Na'eh" ("כי לו נאה," translated here as "For to God it is Fitting").(At this link is the sheet music with option ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by Jonah Rank
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An Aramean Destroyed My Father
One of the most difficult texts in the Haggadah is "arami oved avi." This verse from Deuteronomy 26:5, translated as "my father was a wandering Aramean," is part of the formula that was recited when the first fruit offerings were ...Commentary / Readingscontributed by MyJewishLearning.com
