{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "global-experience-passover", "title": "The Global Experience of Passover", "author": "Be'chol Lashon", "author_handle": "be-chol-lashon-1", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "By Maya Kasowsky, Rabbinic Intern at Be'chol Lashon Every year at Passover Jews gather round tables to share in the Sede...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104244/conversions/picture-553-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104244/picture-553.jpeg", "body": "<p>By Maya Kasowsky, Rabbinic Intern at Be'chol Lashon</p>\n<p>Every year at Passover Jews gather round tables to share in the Seder, reliving through custom and ritual, the experience of leaving Egypt and slavery, and emerging into freedom. The words only tell the story. The customs, songs, and foods help create that sense of being there. Around the world, Jews have passed down a variety of traditions that bring the Exodus to life. These global traditions provide wonderful ways to prompt new questions and interest at any Seder.</p>\n<p>While many communities use a special Seder plate to hold the edible and visual supplies for their Seder, Persian and Yemenite Jews place the different items directly on the table, or in small bowls in front of each person, so that they surround the participants, creating a truly immersive environment.  Others use a basket covered with a decorated cloth to hold all the different ritual items, as do the Jews of Tunisia, so that they are ready to take them off the table and leave Egypt right away. </p>\n<p>Other visual and tactile cues can help to create a vivid setting to enhance the experience.  Lately, “plague bags”  with different toys for each of the ten plagues have become popular.  The Tunisian community has had the same sort of idea for a lot longer.  They place a fishbowl with live fish swimming in it on the table next to the Seder plate, to evoke crossing the Red Sea by seeing the fish that swam in the walls of water on either side. </p>\n<p>Traditionally, Jews outside of Israel hold two Seders, one each of the first two nights of Passover.  The Jews of Kavkaz, in the Caucasus mountains, took advantage of this by holding their first night Seder in Hebrew, and the second night in their own language, so as to both hear the language of our ancestors and also be able to deeply understand what is going on.  Following their example or modifying it to fit your needs can bring richness and depth to a Seder. </p>\n<p>The open of the Seder, like the opening scene of a good play, needs to engage and interest the participants. Instead of simply announcing the start, you could begin with the Seder leader or another participant circling the Seder plate over the head of each of the participants three times, reciting “In haste we came out of Egypt”, as is done in Morocco and Tunisia.  Each individual responds with “Ha Lachma Anya” “This is the bread of affliction” or with “Avadim hayinu” “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt”.  This physically immerses you in the sights and sounds of the Seder.   </p>\n<p>Alternatively another opening ritual, which comes from the Jews of Persia, asks each participant to take a turn holding up the plate of matzot and reciting the 14 steps of the Seder in order, ending with ha lachma anya, “This is the bread of affliction”.   This gives each participant the chance to take a first step into the experience individually, and to commit to this year’s journey to freedom.      </p>\n<p>As we come to the Maggid section, in which the story of the Exodus is recounted, our core desire is to experience and understand what it meant to go from slavery to freedom.  Many communities mixed readings with theater to recreate the sense of adventure and urgency. Consider doing as the Jews of Romania were accustomed to do. When you read the piece of the Haggadah that begins “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt” (In Hebrew “Avadim Hayinu”), take a pillowcase filled with heavy objects, and carry it on your back, around the table.  First an older person might trudge around the table with his or her back bent under the load, and then each child could take a turn.  In Romania, adults would say “difficult to be a slave” over and over as the children experienced the weight of slavery. </p>\n<p>Or you might begin your Seder as Iraqi Jews do- then be “interrupted” by a knock on the door.  One member of the family dresses up as a nomad, with a hat, knapsack and walking stick.  The leader of the Seder quizzes him or her: “where are you coming from?” (Egypt) “Where are you going?” (Jerusalem) and finally “what are the supplies for your trip?”, which cues the ‘actor’ to begin singing the 4 questions. </p>\n<p>The recital of the 10 plagues is a disturbing moment in the Seder, as we realize that our freedom comes at the price of someone else’s suffering.  At most Seders, each participant removes a small amounts of wine or grape juice from their cup as each of the 10 plagues are read, symbolizing the lessening of our joy because of their pain.  Most Ashkenazi (Jews of Eastern European origin) Jews remove some with their finger and place each drop on their plates.  Other communities make the symbolism more visible.  Some Sephardim (Jews from Western Europe and North Africa) pour wine off into a bowl of water, so that by the end it looks red, and we see in front of us the blood of those who suffered so that we could go free.  Indian Jews take a slightly different approach and have a Cup of Pharaoh from which the wine is taken, diminishing the power of the one who caused the plagues, and the suffering of his people, through his refusal to let his slaves go free. </p>\n<p>Keeping children awake long past their bedtimes takes some creativity.  The Afikomen, the last piece of food eaten at the Seder is, in many communities, one way that we keep children engaged.  Often the afikomen is hidden, and children are asked to find it, so that we may end the meal.  Other children steal it, and demand that it be ransomed back.   Still others follow Bukharan custom, and let children use a towel to gently mock-whip the person who hid it until the location is divulged.  </p>\n<p>Iraqi Jews take a different approach, and do not hide the Afikomen, but rather tie the afikomen to the back of a small child and tell him or her to guard it, which helps the little one stay awake and aware of their special role in the Seder.</p>\n<p>The story of the Exodus from Egypt is the core the story of the Jewish people. It is a universal tale that speaks to global themes of suffering, freedom and faith. Bringing the global custom to your Seder this year can not only bring new meaning to familiar rituals but also connect you with the global traditions of our people.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "www.bechollashon.org", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 267, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Global Experience of Passover | Passover haggadah by Be'chol Lashon", "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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During the process, what has been a family and a tribal story becomes a national story. It is in our leaving Egypt that Israel becomes the Jewish people.</p>\n<p>One of the key points to our national identity though, happens before we leave Egypt. In the very first chapter of Shemot,  Pharaoh orders the Hebrew midwives, Shifra and Puah, to kill all the male children. Who are these women? The Hebrew is ambiguous – like the English, it could mean either “Hebrew women who are midwives” or “Midwives to the Hebrews.”</p>\n<p>The rabbis also are divided on this. Rashi declares them the former, but Abrabanel and Samuel David Luzzatto are firmly in the camp of the latter. Luzzatto reasons that this is because it would have been unreasonable for Pharaoh to think that Hebrew women would have murdered their own people. Chief Rabbi of England Jonathan Sacks comments, “The Torah's ambiguity on this point is deliberate. We do not know to which people they belonged because their particular form of moral courage transcends nationality and race. In essence, they were being asked to commit a 'crime against humanity,' and they refused to do so.”</p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it is probable that Shifrah and Puah were Egyptian women. This meaning actually fits better with the sense of the narrative, since it is unlikely that the exchange between Pharaoh and the midwives would make much sense if the midwives were Hebrew women – they would not have been able to feign ignorance and surprise at the way that Hebrew women bore children. It also makes more sense that after the midwives disobeyed Pharaoh, he then charges all his people to destroy all the male children.</p>\n<p>What is fascinating about this small glimpse is how commonplace it actually must have been. Although it is the first instance of civil disobedience that we know of historically, it seems that the Egyptian women were not terribly different than other Egyptians were. After all, Pharaoh may have ordered all the Egyptians to ensure the killing of the Hebrew sons, but his own daughter – and all her maidservants who were with her that morning when she saw Moshe floating around in the box- disobeyed him.</p>\n<p>Shifra and Puah were indeed extraordinary women – it is of course, difficult to disobey your ruler, especially if your ruler was considered to be a God-  thus God rewarded Shifrah and Puah by making them houses – in other words, for saving all those Hebrew boys, their own families were increased and made numerous. It was they who laid the groundwork for the Jewish people to be a people who “feared God and did not do as the king commanded them.”</p>\n<p>I wonder if perhaps there is one more ambiguity to resolve. Where exactly were the houses that God made for Shifra and Puah? When Israel finally succeeded in leaving Egypt, they went out as 600,000, but the Torah adds (Shemot 12:38) that a “mixed multitude went with them.”</p>\n<p>Israel has never been a racial category. Although we began with Abraham as one family,  right away, that was undermined as Abraham and Sarah took all the souls they had made  from Haran (Beresheit 12:5)- which the midrash understands as converts from the local tribes. Then, at the moment of our becoming a nation – our release from Egypt, again, we did not go alone, but went together with those who chose to take our journey with us, and so became part of us, and stood with us at Sinai, and became Israel.</p>\n<p>Even the very existence of what we (wrongly) think of as a “regular” Jewish face - Ashkenazim - are actually evidence of the reverse. Semites, who came up from the middle east, assuredly did not then look like what we think of Ashkenazi Jews looking like any more than they do today! The very fact that we think of Ashkenazim as “Jewish-looking” at all is  actually funny – and proof that we have always welcomed in people of all colors, every tribe – anyone who seeks to join us on our mission of serving God. I like to think that even though Shifrah and Puah weren’t Hebrew women, that ambiguity was purposeful because  when the time came for the Israelites to leave Egypt, they came with us to stand at Sinai, that they stood there, living examples of what it means to fear God, that among us, their descendants, their houses, still stand.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "www.bechollashon.org", "featured": 0, "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": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 248, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Passover Torah Teaching | Passover haggadah by Be'chol Lashon", "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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flavored and seasoned with parsley, thyme, and often served with kneidlach (matzoh balls), kreplach (dumplings), or eggs.</p>\n<p>In 2000, Dr. Stephan Rennard of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha published a study in the medical journal, Chest, revealing that chicken soup has medicinal value.  He conducted laboratory tests on blood samples from volunteers and showed that the soup inhibits the white blood cell, neutrophils, that defends against infection and causes inflammation, which in turn reduces congestion in the nasal passages.  The exact ingredient has not been identified, however, it may be the combination of vegetables and chicken that cause the inhibitory effect.  Although chicken soup is not the cure for the common cold, there is a scientific consensus that is does relieve symptoms by reducing congestions and improving nasal secretion flow.</p>\n<p>Chicken soup contains many beneficial nutrients that help keep our bodies healthy.  Sally Fallon, author of 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</span>Parsley<span> </span></p>\n<p>2 tsp Kosher salt<span> </span></p>\n<p>1 ½ tsp Peppercorns</p>\n<p>Preparation:<span> </span>Remove guts and butcher cut the chicken into 4 pieces.  Place in large pot.  Add a whole onion peeled, carrots cut into pieces about an inch long, a celery stick cut into a few pieces, a handful of parsley, kosher salt, and the peppercorns.  Cover with water and cover pot and cook on low heat for an hour or so.  </p>\n<p>Remove chicken, carrots, and celery.   Strain soup.  Cool soup and place in refrigerator over night.  Remove the fat, which will form on the top of the liquid.  <span> </span>     <span> </span>If you want to add a Spanish twist, add green chilies, garlic and potato.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "www.bechollashon.org", "featured": 0, "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 }, 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Ingredients: 4 slices tuna or Nile...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104244/conversions/picture-553-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104244/picture-553.jpeg", "body": "<p> By Marissa Weitzman</p>\n<p>Recipe courtesy of Rachel Tachvilian from Beit Shemesh, Israel.</p>\n<p>Ingredients:<span><br /> </span>4 slices tuna or Nile perch (if available); 2-3 ripe tomatoes; salt (for marinating fish and for sauce); lemon juice; ¼ teaspoon turmeric; ½ teaspoon chicken-flavored (meatless/”pareve”) soup mix; 2-3 cups boiled water, plus more boiled water if using tuna; handful of fresh coriander, chopped; 1 red pepper, cut into wide strips; 1 long chili pepper, preferably dry, cut into wide strips; 1 clove fresh garlic, peeled and chopped; about ¼ cup vegetable oil; and 1 tablespoon sweet red paprika.</p>\n<p>Preparation:<span><br /> </span>Sprinkle salt and lemon juice over fish and let marinate for 30 minutes. In the meantime, prepare sauce by peeling the tomatoes and placing them in a wide pot. Add salt, turmeric, and soup mix and bring to a boil. Mash cooked tomatoes (can use a potato masher). Then add 2-3 cups boiled water to pot. Bring sauce to a simmer.</p>\n<p>Rinse fish: if using tuna, rinse it first with boiling water and then with tap water; if using Nile perch, rinse it with tap water. Place fish in sauce in a single layer. Place chopped coriander, pepper strips and chopped garlic on top of fish. Bring fish to a boil. In the meantime, thoroughly combine the oil and sweet paprika in a separate dish and add this mixture to fish. After fish has boiled for 10 minutes, reduce flame to simmer. Simmer fish about another 30 minutes. Serve fish with sauce, hot or at room temperature.</p>", "cliptype": "image", "clipsource": "www.bechollashon.org", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163875/Moroccan-Fish_0.jpg", "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163875/conversions/Moroccan-Fish_0-cover.jpg", "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 144, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Moroccan Fish Appetizer | Passover haggadah by Be'chol Lashon", "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/moroccan-fish-appetizer", "og:title": "Moroccan Fish Appetizer | Passover haggadah by Be'chol Lashon", "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": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/163875/conversions/Moroccan-Fish_0-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "entrée-estonia", "title": "Entrée From Estonia", "author": "Be'chol Lashon", "author_handle": "be-chol-lashon-1", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": " By Marissa Weitzman Turkey with Matzah Stuffing Recipe courtesy of Larisa Simonova from Tallinn, Estonia. 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Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/entrée-estonia", "og:title": "Entrée From Estonia | Passover haggadah by Be'chol Lashon", "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": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/7424/conversions/roast_turkey_0-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "dessert-india", "title": "Dessert from India", "author": "Be'chol Lashon", "author_handle": "be-chol-lashon-1", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "By Marissa Weitzman Rolled Ratalu (Sweet Potato) with Nuts. 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It can be joyous...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104244/conversions/picture-553-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104244/picture-553.jpeg", "body": "<p>By Sarah Spencer</p>\n<p>Passover is a time for people to gather around tables, share stories food and rituals. It can be joyous and exciting. But like with any communal setting, is can also be complicated to navigate the different needs and agendas people bring to the table. Still, if we follow Jewish tradition, we will find Passover can be a model for how to create positive diverse communal connections. Its rituals and structures teach us to talk across differences and celebrate commonalities.<span><br /> <br /> </span>Passover is about story telling. And good communication is based on the ability to tell our own stories. Before we gather to celebrate our common identity, we must each own our personal story. Judaism has an oral history, and we have survived by telling those stories and passing them down through the generations. Passover brings us together to celebrate a universal experience of slavery to freedom, a concept everyone can relate to in some way or another. This is the theme around which the story telling takes place on this particular evening. Having a common theme around which to tell stories, a theme with which people from different places or times can identify which, is one of the ways in which people can connect across differences.<span><br /> <br /> </span>Passover encourages us to invite strangers into our home so that we remember that we too were once strangers in own land. We are supposed to open the door and include the strange, the unfamiliar into our familiar Passover ceremony. We can only build strong community when we view the prospect of engaging others as a positive opportunity. Recognize that perhaps some of the people at our table may feel like strangers or that people already sitting at your table may be a stranger to your personal Passover story. We welcome others into our experience and learn about ourselves when we share our stories and hear other people’s experiences and perspectives.    </p>\n\n<p>Passover is all about asking questions; so is bridging differences. Ask questions of the people whom share Seder. Diversity is not about trying to understand somebody else’s experience as your own or listening politely while they speak. It is about engaging and learning so that you both might learn from your curiosity about their life. Sometimes it is difficult to ask questions about that which makes us different. Asking questions in a well structured and thought out way can help us navigate what can feel like difficult and unfamiliar territory.</p>\n<p>There are many ways to ask questions: like the four children, we can be intentional about how we engage with one another, and need to recognize and celebrate that we all have different levels of skill and capacity when it comes to asking— some are wise, some wicked, some ignorant, and some don’t even know how to ask. Regardless of how we may ask or be asked, it is our engagement with one another that will ensure we continue to grow as individuals and as a people.</p>\n<p>The traditional Seder is supposed to be a raucous affair, with food, song, ritual and debate. 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Find artwork, family", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/passover-engaging-across-differences", "og:title": "Passover: Engaging Across Differences | Passover haggadah by Be'chol Lashon", "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": "global-seder", "title": "The Global Seder", "author": "Be'chol Lashon", "author_handle": "be-chol-lashon-1", "author_initials": "BL", "covertext": "By Maya Kasowky What follows are short descriptions of Seder customs from around the world. 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For this lesson each custom can be printed out on a separate card or strip.</p>\n<p>Circling the seder plate over the heads of each participant, while saying “In Haste we left Egypt”.  The response is “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt”</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: The very beginning <span> </span>Where it is from: Morocco and Tunisia</p>\n<p>Putting the shank bone, charoset, maror, karpas, egg, and matzah all around the table, rather than on a seder plate.</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: During set-up, before the seder starts <span> </span>Where it is from: Persian and Yemenite Jews</p>\n<p>Putting the shank bone, charoset, maror, karpas, egg, and matzah in a covered basket, ready to carry out of Egypt with us.</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: During set-up, before the seder starts. <span> </span>Where it is from: Tunisia</p>\n<p>Putting a fishbowl with live fish on the seder table</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: During set-up, before the seder starts. <span> </span>Where it is from: Tunisia</p>\n<p>Having first night Seder in Hebrew, and the second night Seder in the language you speak at home.</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: Throughout <span> </span>Where it is from: Kavkaz (in the Caucasus mountains, in or near Russia)</p>\n<p>Each person takes a turn holding up the Matzot and reciting the steps of the seder (Kadeish U’rchatz, Karpas, Yachatz…).</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: The beginning <span> </span>Where it is from: Persia</p>\n<p>Take a pillowcase, and fill it with heavy objects, before the seder.  During the seder, take turns carrying it around the table on your back, to experience a little of the hard work that Jews did as slaves in Egypt.</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: At “Avadim Hayinu”, “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt” <span> </span>Where it is from: Romania</p>\n<p>Interruption in the seder by a “nomad” who is leaving Egypt.  Dialogue with the “guest” goes like this;</p>\n<p>Seder leader: Where are you coming from?</p>\n<p>Nomad: Egypt</p>\n<p>Seder Leader: Where are you going?</p>\n<p>Nomad: Jerusalem</p>\n<p>Seder Leader: What are the supplies for your trip?</p>\n<p>Nomad: [sings the 4 questions]</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: Right before the 4 questions, or any time, as a surprise <span> </span>Where it is from: Iraq</p>\n<p>Pour out bits of wine or grape juice into a bowl of water, and see it turn red/bloody.<span> </span></p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: The recital of the ten plagues. <span> </span>Where it is from: Sefaradi custom</p>\n<p>Pour wine or grape juice out of a Cup of Pharaoh</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: The recital of the ten plagues. <span> </span>Where it is from: India</p>\n<p>Gently mock-whip the person who knows where the afikomen is hidden, until they reveal where it is.</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: At the very end of the meal. <span> </span>Where it is from: Bukhara</p>\n<p>Tie the afikomen onto the back of one child at the seder.</p>\n<p>Where it fits in the seder: After Yachatz, and it remains there until the end of the meal. <span> </span>Where it is from: Iraq</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "www.bechollashon.org", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 271, "tags": [ { "tag": "Jews Around the World", "slug": "jews-around-the-world" }, { "tag": "Jews of Color", "slug": "jews-of-color" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Global Seder | Passover haggadah by Be'chol Lashon", "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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