{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "ballad-four-children", "title": "The Ballad of Four Children", "author": "Mark Hurvitz", "author_handle": "mark-hurvitz", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "Said the parents to their children, “From your bondage you’ll cut loose, You will eat your fill of matzah, you will drin...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p>Said the parents to their children,</p>\n<p>“From your bondage you’ll cut loose,</p>\n<p>You will eat your fill of matzah,</p>\n<p>you will drink four cups of juice.”</p>\n\n<p>Now these parents had four children,</p>\n<p>yes their kids they numbered four,</p>\n<p>One was wise and one was wicked,</p>\n<p>one was simple and a bore.</p>\n\n<p>And the fourth was sweet and winsome,</p>\n<p>was so young and also small,</p>\n<p>While the other asked the questions,</p>\n<p>this one could not speak at all.</p>\n\n<p>Said the wise one to the parents,</p>\n<p>“Would you please explain the laws...</p>\n<p>Of the customs of the Seder,</p>\n<p>will you please explain the cause?”</p>\n\n<p>And the parents proudly answered,</p>\n<p>“’Cause our forebears ate in speed,</p>\n<p>Ate the Pesach lamb ’ere midnight,</p>\n<p>and from slavery were freed.</p>\n\n<p>“So we follow their example,</p>\n<p>and ’ere midnight we must eat</p>\n<p>The afikoman (O so tasty!)</p>\n<p>which will be our final treat.”</p>\n\n<p>Then did sneer the child so wicked,</p>\n<p>“What does all this mean to you?”</p>\n<p>And the parents’ voice was bitter,</p>\n<p>as their grief and anger grew.</p>\n\n<p>“If yourself you don’t consider</p>\n<p>as a child of Yisrael,</p>\n<p>Then for you this has no meaning,</p>\n<p>you could be a slave as well.”</p>\n\n<p>Then the simple child said simply,</p>\n<p>“What is this?” And quietly,</p>\n<p>The good parents told their offspring.</p>\n<p>“We were freed from slavery.”</p>\n\n<p>But the youngest child was silent,</p>\n<p>and just could not ask at all,</p>\n<p>but with eyes all bright with wonder,</p>\n<p>listened to the details all.</p>\n\n<p>Now dear children heed this lesson,</p>\n<p>and remember evermore,</p>\n<p>What the parents told their children,</p>\n<p>told their kids that numbered four.</p>\n\n<p>Every Seder tells a story that belongs to you and me,</p>\n<p>You and I were slaves in Egypt.</p>\n<p>Now we’re blessed with liberty.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Children", "slug": "four-children" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 511, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Ballad of Four Children | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "haggadah-and-liberation", "title": "Haggadah and Liberation", "author": "Mark Hurvitz", "author_handle": "mark-hurvitz", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "Through the ages, our people's Spring festival has expanded to express an ever greater understanding of the concept of l...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p>Through the ages, our people's Spring festival has expanded to express an ever greater understanding of the concept of liberation. The earliest meanings of the holiday relate back to pre-Israelite times and refer to two distinct holidays: the Feast of the Pascal Lamb and the Festival of Matzot, or Feast of Unleavened Bread. Each of these feasts, occurring at the lambing season and the beginning of the wheat and barley harvest respectively, celebrate the renewal of the year's growth and, so, a liberation from the fear of economic destruction. In biblical times, both of these holidays gained historical associations and related to the liberation of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt. During the biblical period the Exodus event became the central idea of Jewish life and the experience from which the core values of our people grew. Prescriptions for social, civil and ritual practices all harkened back to the experience of the liberation because: \"You were strangers in the land of Egypt.\" Some of these rules instituted the Sabbath (Deuteronomy 5:12-15), regulated loans (Leviticus 25:35-38) and the treatment of servants (Leviticus 25:29-43), as well as widows, orphans and the poor (Deuteronomy 16:11, 12), and set the guidelines for sexual morality (Leviticus 18:3ff).</p>\n<p><span>Toward the close of the biblical period individual families celebrated the Passover by bringing their sacrifice to the Temple in Jerusalem, then returning to their homes to cook the meal and eat it with the matzot and bitter herbs. Except that the slaughtering occurred in the Temple, the celebration differed little from what Exodus prescribed. This is still essentially the practice among the Samaritans who gather each year to observe the Passover on Mount Gerizim. The late biblical period was a time of tremendous spiritual creativity among our people and new interpretations as well as modes of observing the festival developed. We did not discard earlier ideas about the Passover. Rather, we expanded some of them to relate to then-contemporary spiritual and political concerns. The Passover Seder and its Haggadah developed to express these ideas.</span></p>\n<p><span>The biblical text lends itself to this process. The Passover Haggadah uses a variety of terms to describe the transformation of the ancient Hebrews when they left Egypt. After the Exodus, according to the Bible, God simply tells the people (Ex. 11:17) \"I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt.\" However, before the Exodus, the Bible relates a more detailed description of what is to happen. There (Ex. 6:6-7), the text uses a series of terms that make their way into the Haggadah and shape how we have understood the Exodus ever since: \"...I will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and through extraordinary chastisements. And I will take you to be my people....\"</span></p>\n<p><span>Each of these terms has an ancient tradition of meaning. Nonetheless, together, they have come to connote words which, in American usage of our day, suggest \"liberation.\" While \"redemption\" in a religious context implies a spiritual state, in its ancient biblical context, it referred to an individual act of physically saving someone from danger or bondage. \"Deliverance\" has also been understood with its more \"spiritual\" connotation; yet, as is clear from the Exodus passage, it is also a political term. While the word Haggadah means \"narrative,\" very little of the classic Haggadah is devoted to a simple telling of the Exodus story. Instead the rabbis wove a variety of activities into the Seder event that purportedly serve to highlight the values of the Exodus and enable the participants to \"learn by doing.\" There have been many textual additions to the Haggadah as well as commentaries on the meaning of the texts and actions over the ages, still, a basic structure (Seder means \"order\") remains. The Seder and the Haggadah begin with a recitation of the fourteen major segments of the evening's program:</span></p>\n\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span> 1. Sanctifying the holiday </span></p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span>8. Eating the Bitter Herb</span></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span>2. Washing the Hands</span></p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span>9. Eating the Matzah with the Bitter Herb</span></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span> 3. Eating the green vegetable dipped in salt water;</span></p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span>10. Eating the meal</span></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span> 4. Break the middle Matzah;</span></p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span>11. Finding the Afikoman</span></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span> 5. Reciting the Narrative;</span></p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span>12. Reciting the grace after meals</span></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span> 6. Washing the hands (before eating the meal);</span></p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span>13. Singing Psalms of praise</span></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span> 7. Blessing for the bread and the Matzah</span></p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span> 14. Concluding with the hope that we have reenacted the Exodus with the appropriate intention.</span></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p><span>Each section of the Seder has non-narrative interpretations that show the value of liberation. Even the segment of the Seder devoted to the formal reciting of the Haggadah, has little direct narrative. Instead, the text consists of questions, biblical passages, rabbinic tales and songs woven together. All these relate to the various aspects of the Exodus as we expanded and redefined the holiday as the spiritual liberation from idolatry to the belief in ethical monotheism (\"God\"). One of the earliest additional understandings of the Seder understood the \"Exodus\" as redemption from our spiritual inadequacies. The Jewish messianic movement of the first century CE which followed the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth highlighted this aspect. According to Solomon Zeitlin, their texts describe the \"Last Supper\" as either a celebration of the Passover Seder, or the meal of the night preceding. Three of the synoptic gospels state that Jesus was arrested the night of the Passover meal. He was thereby identified as the paschal lamb sacrificed to redeem them from sin. Justin Martyr made this idea explicit by saying: \"For the pascha was Christ who was afterwards sacrificed...; And as the blood of the Passover saved us who were in Egypt, so also the blood of Christ will deliver from death those who have believed.\" In order to make Jesus more obviously the Passover sacrifice, the Gospel of John sets the last supper as a simple meal the night before the sacrifice.</span></p>\n<p><span>The idea that the Passover could refer to the awaited messianic redeemer was not a novum of the Christian sect. Evidence exists for this was presented by the Jewish scholar David Daube. Toward the beginning of the Seder, early in the narrative section, we break the middle of three matzot on the Seder table and hide one of the halves. We must find this piece of Matzah, called the Afikoman, by the end of the meal and eat it before the Seder can continue. The word Afikoman is commonly understood to come from the Greek word for dessert. Daube, however, suggests that it refers to the messiah, who, separated from the Jewish people, will during the course of the Passover celebration be reunited with us, saving us once again.</span></p>\n<p><span>Approximately a hundred years following the rise of Christianity, during the Hadrianic persecutions (circa 135-150 CE), the rabbis added a more political understanding to the Passover observance. The text relates the story of five rabbis who spent Seder night together deeply involved in discussing the Exodus from Egypt. Finally, at dawn, their pupils told them that the time for the morning prayers had arrived. The event was finally written down in the Amoraic period (225-650) and added to the Haggadah, once again in the narrative section, by the Gaonic period (650-1075). At first glance it is not obvious what political relevance the text has. Nonetheless, the commentators are unanimous in understanding the text as referring to a clandestine meeting of leaders of the rebellion against Rome who met under cover to celebrate the liberation from oppression of an earlier despot and plan the revolt against a contemporary oppressor.</span></p>\n<p><span>The Haggadah does not tell us a tale of how our greatest sages did not know that the time had come for saying the Shema in the morning.... Could anyone imagine that the students would come to tell their teachers what had to be done?... The students were guards posted to alert the rabbis of any Roman patrols. When day broke, the students told their masters, using a code phrase that \"the time has arrived for saying the Shema prayer,” and they needed to be more careful because of the daylight. The many editions of the Haggadah issued from the late medieval period through the early modern period both in manuscript and printed versions differed primarily by way of their illustrations, translations or the commentaries attached to them.</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 357, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Haggadah and Liberation | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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The foods...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p><b>The Seder Plate</b></p>\n<p>Think of the Seder Plate as a “combination plate” dinner that formed the meal in ancient days. The foods were not merely symbolic, but were eaten—from the plate. As the Seder menu changed, the foods on the Seder Plate required explanation. (clockwise from the upper-right-of-center)</p>\n<p><span><b>Zeroa </b></span>(shankbone), represents the Passover offering made in Temple times. It will be explained during the Seder. At vegetarian Seders it has become customary to use a red beet instead. No classic prooftext exists for the use of a beet. Some people refer to Talmud Bavli Pesachim 114b. However, this comment actually deals with rice (!) and beets as additional foods at the meal itself—not a symbolic food on the Seder Plate. Nonetheless, the blood-red color of the beet serves as a metaphoric stand-in for the blood of the lamb shank. I suggest scoring and roasting a beet with its greens.</p>\n<p><span><b>Beitzah</b></span><span> </span>(boiled or roasted egg), represents the holiday offering made in the days of the Temple. It plays no role in the Seder. It will be explained during the Seder.</p>\n<p><span><b>Maror </b></span>(bitter herbs), though possibly horehound, it is usually a piece of unground horseradish, represents the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.<span>11 </span>It will be explained during the Seder.</p>\n<p><span><b>Charoset </b></span><span>( </span>a mixture of chopped nuts, apples and wine (and other wonderful ingredients) represents the clay the Jews used to make bricks for the Egyptians.<span>12 </span>It will be explained during the Seder.</p>\n<p><span><b>Chazeret </b></span>another bitter herb, usually ground horseradish, or a bitter lettuce such as endive. It plays no role in the Seder, and will not be explained.</p>\n<p><span><b>Karpas </b></span><span> </span>any green vegetable (parsley, celery—some traditions suggest a boiled potato), represents the new</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 322, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/seder-plate-0", "og:title": "The Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "getting-know-each-other", "title": "Getting to Know Each Other", "author": "Mark Hurvitz", "author_handle": "mark-hurvitz", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "We start by getting to know one another: As we embark on our adventure together here tonight, it is possible that some o...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p>We start by getting to know one another:</p>\n<p><span>As we embark on our adventure together here tonight, it is possible that some of us do not know each other.</span></p>\n<p><span>Take turns around the table as each person shares his or her name and how it is that she or he has come to this Seder. Because the Seder recounts or Exodus from slavery in Egypt, you might also share:</span></p>\n<ol>\n<li><span>- a value learned from the experience of slavery</span></li>\n<li><span>- an object beginning with the first letter of your name:</span></li>\n</ol>\n<p><span>I’m leaving Egypt and I’m taking with me a:_______________________</span></p>\n\n<p><span>Similarly, a Sefardi custom suggests that we take turns, beginning with our host, and ask the person to our left:</span></p>\n<p><span>Who are you? </span></p>\n<p><span>Where are you coming from? </span></p>\n<p><span>Where are you going?</span></p>\n\n<p><span>To which the answer is:</span></p>\n<p><span>I am Israel. I am coming from Egypt. I am going to Jerusalem.</span></p>\n<p>What do “Israel,” “Egypt,” and “Jerusalem” represent to you right now? What are you doing in your life to transition from a metaphorical Egypt to a metaphorical Jerusalem? We will explore some meanings of these terms as we progress in our adventure.  </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 265, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Getting to Know Each Other | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/getting-know-each-other", "og:title": "Getting to Know Each Other | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "introduction-1", "title": "Introduction", "author": "Mark Hurvitz", "author_handle": "mark-hurvitz", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "We begin our Seder and join our efforts with those everywhere who celebrate the Passover searching for its meaning in th...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p>We begin our Seder and join our efforts with those everywhere who celebrate the Passover searching for its meaning in their lives; as an expression of our liberation so far... There are many possible modes for understanding the events retold in the Pesach Haggadah.</p>\n<p>Of these, three are braided together so that, if we concentrate exclusively on any one of them, we diminish the special qualities of the entire story.</p>\n<p>By participating in the symbolic actions built into the order of the Seder, we can share in: the experience of the rebirth of the natural world around us, the national liberation of our people, the spiritual redemption of each individual human being.</p>\n<p>We begin this evening: some of us feeling shackled by the bonds of winter, some of our people—and other peoples of the world—persecuted, many of us confined by our own personal limitations.</p>\n<p>Tonight we hope to set in motion: processes of growth that encourage within each of us the renewal of each person’s unique vision, and efforts to work for the freedom of our scattered—and all, oppressed— people, as we see about us the flowering of a new year.</p>\n<p>Indeed, we begin our Seder here.</p>\n<p>However, our goals are neither our renewal, our freedom, nor our flowering.</p>\n<p>Pesach is but the pointer to the acceptance of our commitments to complete these tasks—in a harvesting of the fruits of our labors yet to come.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 362, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Introduction | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/introduction-1", "og:title": "Introduction | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "candle-lighting", "title": "Candle Lighting", "author": "Mark Hurvitz", "author_handle": "mark-hurvitz", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "The evening shadows lengthen. We prepare ourselves to light the holiday candles. In this act we unite and identify ourse...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p>The evening shadows lengthen. We prepare ourselves to light the holiday candles. In this act we unite and identify ourselves in time and space with all Jews in other periods and places of our history. Albert Einstein stood in awe of the universe as he struggled to formulate his theory of a unified field. He was not ready to assign consciousness to the unity he proposed. But our ancestors taught us of a Divine Unity: the Source of all things who unites us all as one family. From this idea they developed the concept of ethical monotheism.</p>\n<p>Our prophets claimed that the unity of creation called us to act. We still hear their voices, calling us to work for social justice as the foundation for community peace. I come tonight because I want to join this process, as we build a creative and fulfilling Jewish life. I hope each person who participates in this Seder will add their efforts, as we learn, understand, and enrich the traditions of our past, making them meaningful for our future.</p>\n<p>As we foster the beauty and uniqueness of our own heritage, so we support those who further the beauty and uniqueness of their respective traditions.</p>\n<p>We unite with other Jews and with all who act so that people around the world can live in peace and freedom and develop so they can reap the fruits of their lives as human beings. We know that as long as we live a light glows within us. Even when we close our eyes we experience it. The world itself fills with light and we humans have the ability to increase or decrease its presence.</p>\n<p>Look! The day ends. The earth turns from sunshine to dusk and then to darkness. As so often before, we assume for ourselves the task of kindling candles in the night, to enlighten the dark corners of our world. We still live in perilous times. Behind us, though receding into the memories of even the oldest among us, we can still sense the fires of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Before us, on all sides we face a terror of towers falling and the potential of thermonuclear clouds rising. We gather tonight to create from fire, not the heat of destruction, but the light of instruction; indeed to see more clearly the wisdom, strength and caring that glows from within each of us. Many peoples of the world marked significant events with fire. We Jews also associate lighting fires with special occasions. Like other peoples who regarded fire as a gift to be used wisely and with respect, we also focus our attention on the Source of the lights we use in our ceremonies.</p>\n<p>May these candles, lighted on the Festival of Freedom, bring light into our hearts and minds. May they renew our courage to act for justice and freedom here and now. May they illumine the path to truth, justice and peace. And so we repeat the ancient blessing:</p>\n<p>Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha-olam, asher kiddishanu b’mitzvotav,<span>v’tzivanu lehadlik neir shel [Shabbat v'shel] </span><span>Yom Tov.</span></p>\n<p><span> </span>Blessed are You Adonai our God, Sovereign of all space and time, who has made us distinct through Your directives and has directed us to kindle the [Shabbat and] holiday lights.</p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 310, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Candle Lighting | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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We support one another and share one another’s strengths.</p>\n<p><span>This evening’s adventure will slide in and out of time, pulling together many of the stories of our people—we will leave Egypt following Moses, Miriam and Aaron. We will dine with the Rabbis of ancient Judaea as they experience the Roman occupation. We recall the suffering and creativity of the Jewish communities of Europe in their thousand year settlement there. We will share stories of our own contemporary experiences as Jews living in North America. These are our stories—but not our only teachers. We have much to learn from our guests and neighbors for whom these stories are totally fresh. Whether this is a ritual we have experienced every year since our birth or one that is new to us, we turn to it now for the chance to learn something about oppression and freedom, something about the miracles of the world we live in, and something of our connections to ancient traditions as they can be understood in our own time.</span></p>\n<p><span>We share our power to bless.</span></p>\n<p><span>May God bless and guide us. May truth become strong within us, may we speak our words in charity, may we act out of love and justice. We have received a noble heritage from which we draw strength. We encourage the child in us to grow toward mystery and mastery.</span></p>\n<p><span>Yesimcha Elohim k’Efraim v’chiMenasheh. </span></p>\n<p><span>We emulate Ephraim and Menasheh, who carried forward the life of our people.</span></p>\n<p><span>Yesimech Elohim k’Sarah, Rivkah, Rachel, v’Leah. </span></p>\n<p><span>We emulate Sarah and Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, who carried forward the life of our people.</span></p>\n<p><span>Yevarechecha Adonai v’yishmerecha Ya’eir Adonai panav eilecha vichuneka Yisa Adonai panav eilecha v’yasem lecha shalom.</span></p>\n<p>May the Source of all caress and protect us. May the energies of the Source of all glow within us and be generous to us. May we feel the Source of all present within us filling us with wholeness. </p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 303, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Blessing Each Other | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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This washing, even though it is an official task of the Seder, is done without a...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p><span>Why do we wash our hands all the time?</span></p>\n<p><span>This washing, even though it is an official task of the Seder, is done without a blessing. It is strictly for cleanliness purposes. </span></p>\n<p><span>And why not? </span></p>\n<p><span>We're about to handle food. It seems so easy for us. We turn on the tap, and there it is. But water is scarce. May we be aware of our water as we continue the Seder.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Urchatz", "slug": "urchatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 285, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Wash the Hands | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Pesach celebrates our becoming free. Through the wondrous rebirth of life we can feel the precarious beginnings of the struggle for freedom. The sea’s salt not only reminds us of life’s start, but also of the brine of tears shed by our people and by all people striving to be free.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Exodus Story", "slug": "exodus-story" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 317, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Celebrating Spring | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Kinder...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p><span>In dem land fun piramidn, Z’geven a Kenig—beyz un shlekht, Gevezen zaynen alle Yidn— Zayne diner, zayne k’nekht.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>Kinder hot men dan farmoyert Ven a tzigl hot gefelt Ver veis vi lang es volt gedoyert Ot di viste shklafn velt,</span></p>\n<p><span>In dem land fun piramidn Velt nit zayn a groyser held, Velkher hot gekemft far Yidn Mit zayn khokhme, un zayn shverd.</span></p>\n\n<p><span>There lived in the land of the pyramids a very cruel and angry king. The Jews in the land were his servants and his slaves. Children were imprisoned in the wall in place of missing bricks. Who knows how long this slave world would have continued? If there had not lived a great hero in this land of the pyramids. Who fought for the Jews with his wisdom and his sword.</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah, written by Dovid Eidelshtat", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 298, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "In Dem Land Fun Piramidn | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Sing a song to the One whom we’ve exal...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p><span>And the women dancing with their timbrels </span></p>\n<p><span>Followed Miriam as she sang her song. </span></p>\n<p><span>Sing a song to the One whom we’ve exalted,</span></p>\n<p><span>Miriam and the women danced and danced the whole night long. </span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>And Miriam was a weaver of unique variety, </span></p>\n<p><span>The tapestry she wove was one which sang our history, </span></p>\n<p><span>With every strand and every thread she crafted her delight,</span></p>\n<p><span>A woman touched with spirit she dances toward the light. </span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>Chorus</span></p>\n<p><span>When Miriam stood upon the shores and gazed across the sea, </span></p>\n<p><span>The wonder of this miracle she soon came to believe, </span></p>\n<p><span>Whoever thought the sea would part with an outstretched hand, </span></p>\n<p><span>And we would pass to freedom and march to the promised land.</span></p>\n<p><span><br /></span></p>\n<p><span>Chorus </span></p>\n<p><span>And Miriam the prophet took her timbrel in her hand, </span></p>\n<p><span>And all the women followed her just as she had planned, </span></p>\n<p><span>And Miriam raised her voice in song </span></p>\n<p><span>She sang with praise and might, </span></p>\n<p><span>We’ve just lived through a miracle, </span></p>\n<p><span>we’re going to dance tonight.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah, written by Debbie Friedman", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 306, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Miriam's Song | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/miriams-song", "og:title": "Miriam's Song | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "og:description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "zog-nit-keyn-mol", "title": "Zog Nit Keyn Mol", "author": "Mark Hurvitz", "author_handle": "mark-hurvitz", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "Remnants in the ghettos and death camps rose up against the wicked ones and slew many of them before they themselves die...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p>Remnants in the ghettos and death camps rose up against the wicked ones and slew many of them before they themselves died. In 1943, on the first night of Pesach, remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the adversary. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they brought redemption to the name of Israel through all the world. In their honor this song was written and sung:</p>\n\n<p><span>Zog nit keyn mol az du geyst dem letstn veg khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg. Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho– S’vet a poyk ton undzer trot–mir zaynen do!</span></p>\n\n<p><span>Fun grinem palmenland biz vaysn land fun shney, Mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey. Un vu gefaln s’iz a shprits fun unzer blut, Shprotsn vet dortn undzer gvure, undzer mut.</span></p>\n\n<p><span>Es vet di morgnzun bagildn undz dem haynt, Un der nekhtn vet farshvindn mitn faynd. Nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in dem kayor– Vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.</span></p>\n\n<p><span>Dos lid geshribn iz mit blut un nit mit blay. S’iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl af der fray. Dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent Dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent!</span></p>\n\n<p><span>To zog nit keyn mol az du geyst dem letstn veg....</span></p>\n\n<p>Never say that there is only death for you Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue— Because the hour that we’ve hungered for is near; Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble: We are here!</p>\n<p>From land of palm-tree to the far-off land of snow We shall be coming without torment and our woes, And everywhere our blood has sunk into the earth Shall our bravery, our vigor blossom forth!</p>\n\n<p>We’ll have the morning sun to set our day aglow, And all our yesterdays shall vanish without the foe, And if the time is long before the sun appears; Then let this song go like a signal through the years.</p>\n<p>This song was written with our blood and not with lead; It’s not a song that birds sing overhead It was a people, among toppling barricades, That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades.</p>\n<p>So, never say that there is only death for you Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue— Because the hour that we’ve hungered for is near; Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble: We are here!</p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah, written by Debbie Friedman", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 333, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Zog Nit Keyn Mol | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Find artwork, family", "og:image": "" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "drinking-miriams-well", "title": "Drinking from Miriam's Well", "author": "Mark Hurvitz", "author_handle": "mark-hurvitz", "author_initials": "MH", "covertext": "Empty whatever wine remains in the wine glasses into the empty bowls (see page ) then pour some water from the pitcher t...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p><span>Empty whatever wine remains in the wine glasses into the empty bowls (see page ) then pour some water from the pitcher that has stood on the table into everyone’s wine glass.</span></p>\n\n<p><span>We have escaped bondage and crossed the sea. We enter the arid land before us, made hesitant by generations of servitude—mixed with our recent struggle, and yet heady in our new freedom. We have thirsted for freedom, but now we thirst for water. As with so many people in the world who do not have water, we face bitterness<span> </span>and quarreling.<span> </span>Our ancient texts tell us that Moses was able to turn the bitter into sweetness and bring forth water. But many disputes over water remain.<span> </span>Further, we are told that Miriam, the midwife of our liberation has stood ready, waiting to sustain us in the time ahead as we come to grips with our tasks and responsibilities. Our Sages spoke of Miriam’s Well, created in the twilight of creation’s week. It now lies hidden in the sea of Galilee<span> </span>for Elijah to restore to us. Ishmael received water from it as “the well of living and seeing”; Rebecca drew from it when she greeted Eliezer; the well first appeared to our people when Moses struck the rock on Miriam’s account at the place of bitterness in Sinai—and it travelled with us throughout the desert years. Its waters, we are told, taste of old wine and new wine, of milk and of honey. This is the well of the Ancestors of the world: Abraham &amp; Sarah, Isaac &amp; Rebecca, Jacob &amp; Leah and Rachel dug it; the leaders of olden times have searched for it; the heads of the people, the lawgivers of Israel, Moses, Aaron and Miriam, have caused it to flow with their staves. In the desert we received it as a gift and thereafter it followed us on all our wanderings: to lofty mountains and deep valleys. Not until we came to the boundary of Moab did it disappear because we squandered our freedom by not fulfilling our responsibilities. Now, as we begin a new season of renewal, may these cleansing, refreshing waters, reminiscent of Miriam’s well, recall for us a time of purity of purpose and help us focus on the tasks ahead.</span></p>\n\n<p><span>All drink the water from Miriam’s well.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 297, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Drinking from Miriam's Well | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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We have tasted the new grow...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p>The tasks ahead?</p>\n\n<p>Once again we have recited the age-old epic of our liberation from slavery.</p>\n\n<p>We have tasted the new growth of a world released from winter</p>\n\n<p>We have celebrated advances our, and other peoples of the world, have made toward freedom from oppression.</p>\n\n<p>We have focused our attention on how each one of us can become strengthened to feel,</p>\n\n<p>think and act so as to take an active role in our own lives.</p>\n\n<p>Each year we repeat the same phrase and seem to return to the same place from where we began.</p>\n\n<p>We began our Seder by asking</p>\n\n<p>Who are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going?</p>\n\n<p>To which we answered:</p>\n\n<p>I am Israel. I am one who struggles with God. I am coming from Mitzra’yim, from a narrow tightness to openness.</p>\n\n<p>I am going to Jerusalem. There are at least two “Jerusalems.” For thousands of years we have imagined both a Jerusalem of stone and one of the spirit. If, on reflection, we can state that we have—each of us, in our own individual way—made some progress to draw together the various strands of our lives, then, perhaps “Israel,” “Egypt,” and “Jerusalem” represent something different to us now. There may be a glimmer of a change in our lives as we transition from one metaphorical Egypt to, perhaps, a different metaphorical Jerusalem. If so, we can conclude, stating that we have conducted our Seder with the appropriate intention. Therefore, as we have celebrated this festival tonight, so may we celebrate it, all of us together, next year again—in joy, in a world which we have helped to bring closer to the Messianic era. 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Y vino el gato y se comio el cavritic...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p><span><b>Un Cavritico</b></span></p>\n<p><span>Un cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim.</span></p>\n<p><span>Y vino el gato y se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim.</span></p>\n<p><span>Y vino el perro y que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim.</span></p>\n<p><span>Y vino el palo y aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim.</span></p>\n<p><span>Y vino el fuego y quemo el palo, que aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim.</span></p>\n<p><span>Y vino la agua y ya mato el fuego, que quemo el palo, que aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim. Y vino el buey y se bevio la agua, que ya mato el fuego, que quemo el palo, que aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim.</span></p>\n<p><span>Y vino el shoket y degollo el buey, que se bevio la agua, que ya mato el fuego, que quemo el palo, que aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim. Y vino el malah amavet y degollo shoket, que degollo al buey, que se bevio la agua, que ya mato el fuego, que quemo el palo, que aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim. Y vino el Santo Bendicho y degollo el malah amavet, que degollo shoket, que degollo al buey, que se bevio la agua, que ya mato el fuego, que quemo el palo, que aharvo el perro, que mordio el gato, que se comio el cavritico, que lo merco mi padre por dos levanim, por dos levanim.</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Growing Haggadah, from the Altabet family tradition", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Jews Around the World", "slug": "jews-around-world", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 469, "tags": [ { "tag": "Chad Gadya", "slug": "chad-gadya" } ], "themes": [ { "theme": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Chad Gadya in Ladino | Passover haggadah by Mark Hurvitz", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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These may represent...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/conversions/tinylogo%28noborder%29-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/418954/tinylogo%28noborder%29.png", "body": "<p><span>Our Bible uses different words and phrases to express the divine promises of freedom for our people. These may represent different stages of redemption. We can also read these promises as toasts to the generations of our people who committed themselves to the struggle for liberation in their own day. Like wine, we can appreciate freedom as a gift to use wisely with respect. Over the course of the Seder we will drink four cups of wine to recall each time freedom was promised.</span></p>\n<p><span>Many patterns of four appear in our telling tonight. 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