{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "journey-freedom-journey-healing-guided-visualization-leader-0", "title": "Journey to Freedom, Journey to Healing- A Guided Visualization (for the leader)", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "A GUIDED VISUALIZATION © Rabbi Susan Freeman, 2003 This is a journey from slavery to freedom. Close your eyes and take s...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>A GUIDED VISUALIZATION </span><span>© Rabbi Susan Freeman, 2003</span></p>\n<div><span></span><span>This is a journey from slavery to freedom.</span><p></p></div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Close your eyes and take several slow deep breaths. Feel your body as being very heavy. Take a few minutes to go through each body part, feet to head, and feel the heaviness, the weight of every limb, every bone . . .</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>You were a slave once in the land of Egypt. Remember when you were a slave among slaves. Go back. You were pressed hard: </span><span>“Ruthlessly they made life bitter for [you] with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field. <i>Va-yemar-reru et- chai-yay-hem ba-avodah kashah b</i></span><i><span>’chomer u</span></i><i><span>’vil-vay-neem u</span></i><i><span>’ve-chol avodah ba-sah-deh et kol avo-dah-tam asher avdu va-hem be-farech</span></i><span>” (Exodus 1:14)</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>Rub your fingers together. Feel the muddy dirt between your fingertips. Imagine the mud on your skin, the streaks of dirt on your arms and your legs, the crusty sweat on your brow. Note the muddiness on the surface of your body, but realize that this is not what is of most concern to you.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>What is most troubling is a feeling of sluggishness circulating through you. The feeling of being a slave, being pressed. </span><span>“And the taskmasters pressed [you] . . .         <i>V</i></span><i><span>’ha-nog-seem atzeem . . . </span></i><span>“ (Exodus 5:13)</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>It’s as if the mud fills your mind and body, as well.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>The words of Pharaoh swirl through your head . . . </span><span>“</span><span>Be off now to your work! No straw shall be issued to you, but you must produce your quota of bricks!</span><span></span><span>” (Exodus 5:18)</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>“</span><span>You must not reduce your daily quantity of bricks. <i>Lo tee-gre-u mi-liv-nay-chem d</i></span><i><span>’</span></i><i><span>’var yom b</span></i><i><span>’</span></i><i><span>’yomo.</span></i><span></span><span>” (Exodus 5:19)</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>You feel heavy, weighted down by the imprisoning experience of being a slave.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>Though you feel heavy and weighted down, you have an intense desire to be alleviated of your burdens; to be released from what is pressing down on you; to wash away the bitterness . . . wash away the mud.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>You want to wash away the mud . . . From your skin, from your brow. Wash away the mud that fills your mind and body . . . Wash away the sluggishness circulating through you . . .</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>Words, emotions are stirring inside you. What are they? Listen to your inner voice. You can ask for help, you can call out. There is a Power, a Loving Force to help lift you, to help transform your burdens. The Mysterious embrace of God will receive and envelop your pain. What do your words say; what does your silence express? Listen. What do you hear?</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>Your intense desire to go free propels you along as a certain momentum builds in the environment around you. The momentum propelling you is the swelling wave of sentiment that surrounds you </span><span>– to go; to leave the mud, the bricks, the bitterness and slavery behind.</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>Release the bricks in your arms and allow your bent-over body to straighten. Brush off the dirt from your skin, dry your brow. Breathe easier as you join in the journey away from slavery, towards freedom.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>You are journeying away from slavery towards the sea, towards freedom.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>As you glimpse the sea, you feel compelled to go towards the water. You feel an urge for the water to wash over your skin. Hurry to the water, splash some of the cool, cleansing water over you. Pour handfuls of water through your hair; splash water on your face, your shoulders; scoop water over your back . . .</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>The water is refreshing. Your skin is tingling, soothed. And you step away from the water.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>Still, you want to clear the sense of muddiness from your mind; the internal, clogging feeling of heaviness.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>It is night now. Lie down on the shore of the sea, away from the water. Still hold on to the feeling, the image of clear, refreshing water. Imagine this clear purity flowing through your body, cleansing your mind. A flow that is pure, clear, refreshing. Feel the clarity circulating through your veins, your arteries. Clarity of mind, clarity of body . . .</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>It is while you are lying down on the shore of the sea that the passageway to freedom is being prepared for you. As you prepare yourself, so too, the passage to freedom is opening.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>“Then Moses held out his held out his arm over the sea and the Eternal drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and turned the sea into dry ground.</span><span>” (Exodus 14:21)</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>It is morning now. The water that you had poured and splashed over you the day before is no longer there. </span><span>“The waters were split. <i>Va-yee-bak-u ha-ma-yeem.</i></span><span>” (Exodus 14:21) And the sense of water flowing, washing through you is gone as well. What </span></span></p><p></p><span>remains is breath, clear breath </span><span></span><span>– air which circulates freely around you, inside of you. Breathe in deeply; and exhale fully.</span>\n<span></span>\n<p><span>Breathe in deeply; and exhale fully. Enjoy your breathing; enjoy its fullness, its lightness.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>“And the Israelites went in to the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.</span><span>” (Exodus 14:21-22)</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>The walls surrounding you are water, yet they are totally secured by Divine Will. The massive ocean waves, the watery depths have obeyed the will of the Almighty. You fear no harm. You feel protected, as if a sturdy hand is guiding you.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>Walk through the passageway to freedom. Walk along the dry ground. Walk through the walls of water on your right and on your left. Walk through the passageway to freedom.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>The fullness of the experience of freedom envelops you. You are more aware than ever before. You feel certainty of God</span><span></span><span>’s presence, God</span><span>’s role in your journey.</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>When, shortly after you have walked through the passageway to freedom, God speaks, you know these words to be true:</span></p><p></p>\n<span><span>“</span><span>I, the Eternal One, am your healer. <i>Ani Adonai ro-feh-cha.</i></span><span></span><span>” (Exodus 15:26) </span></span>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n</div>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, Holiday Resource Sampler, Volume 1: Passover", "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": 300, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Journey to Freedom, Journey to Healing- A Guided Visualization (for the leader) | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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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Each one of us is obligated to consider ourselves as coming out of Egypt. Here are some que...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><b><span>Why Is This Night Different?</span></b></span></p><p><b></b></p><b></b>\n<p><span><b><span>Each one of us is obligated to consider ourselves as coming out of Egypt. <i>Here are some questions for our individual journey of liberation....</i></span></b></span></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><b><i></i></b>\n<p><span>- What in my life do I experience as \"Egypt\" this year?</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>- In what ways have I been set free?</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><i><span>- Mitzrayim</span></i><span>, the Hebrew word for Egypt, means a \"narrow place.\" How could my \"narrow place\" function as a place for growth?</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>- In what ways could I confront and express my powerlessness?</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>- </span><span>What specific practical actions can I take? </span><span></span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>- </span><span>What outside my control can I trust to liberate myself?</span><span></span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>- </span><span>If I created three personal symbols from my own story which parallel those of the seder - the paschal lamb, matza, and the bitter herb -what would they be?</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>- </span><span>What is my prayer as I take the steps in my journey of liberation? </span></span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n<p><span><i><span>From \"The Outstretched Arm\", Volume 2: Issue 1, Spring, 1999</span></i></span></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, Holiday Resource Sampler, Volume 1: Passover", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 339, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Is This Night Different? | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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 praise You in the pause before begi...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "\n<p><span>By Debbie Perlman from her book, Flames To Heaven</span></p>\n\n<p><span>Hallelujah! Praise the Eternal!</span></p>\n<p><span>We praise You in the pause before beginning, The quiet glance and sigh </span></p>\n<p><span>As we stand poised on the moment, </span></p>\n<p><span>Filling our eyes with Your offer of freedom.</span></p>\n<p><span>Hallelujah! Praise the Eternal!</span></p>\n<p><span>We praise You as we step forward together, </span></p>\n<p><span>Hands held, heads raised, eyes focused </span></p>\n<p><span>On the far distant dream of our redemption, </span></p>\n<p><span>The place of Your vision for a holy people.</span></p>\n<p><span>Hallelujah! Praise the Eternal!</span></p>\n<p><span>We praise You in the short passage, </span></p>\n<p><span>As the children run ahead and back, </span></p>\n<p><span>Each striving to be the first to see </span></p>\n<p><span>And call out the beauty of the Promise.</span></p>\n<p><span>Hallelujah! Praise the Eternal!</span></p>\n<p><span>And let us praise You when our legs are weary </span></p>\n<p><span>And the bundles and burdens are multiplied </span></p>\n<p><span>By the time they have been on our backs. </span></p>\n<p><span>Help us to praise You then.</span></p>\n<p><span>Hallelujah! Praise the Eternal!</span></p>\n<p><span>For You, Eternal Deliverer, </span></p>\n<p><span>Bring us all out of our enslavement. </span></p>\n<p><span>You open our minds to the freedom </span></p>\n<p><span>Contained within each of us.</span></p>\n<p><span>You, Eternal Deliverer, </span></p>\n<p><span>Call us to adorn our freedom with deeds, </span></p>\n<p><span>To be released to a dedicated freedom, </span></p>\n<p><span>Free to praise You with the work of our hearts.</span></p>\n<p><span>Praise the Eternal! 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What do we mean by </span><span></span><span>“healed</span><span></span><span>” and </span><span></span><span>“unhealed?</span><span></span><span>” In being expansive in our understanding of these words, we may say that being </span><span></span><span>“healed</span><span></span><span>” does not necessarily mean the eradication of illness, grief or difficult circumstances. By drawing on the analogy of slavery to freedom, we broaden our perspective of what </span><span></span><span>“unhealed</span><span></span><span>” and </span><span></span><span>“healed</span><span></span><span>” might mean.</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>The slavery/freedom analogy may lead to various associations for participants. Perhaps they will associate the </span><span></span><span>“slavery</span><span></span><span>” of being unhealed with feeling heavy, foggy, muddy, stuck, held down, held back, weighed down, unclear, fearful, imprisoned, and so on. Conversely, perhaps they may associate the </span><span></span><span>“freedom</span><span></span><span>” of being healed with feelings of release, wholeness, clarity, peacefulness, confidence, burdens being lifted, and so on.</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>For instance, those who are suffering from a specific illness may draw on the guided visualization as a means to try to go beyond the daily struggles they experience. What states of being are possible besides those of feeling unendingly </span><span></span><span>“enslaved</span><span></span><span>” by illness?</span></span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>In essence, slavery is to freedom what unhealed is to healed, with the understanding that healing is a lifelong journey toward wholeness. This guided visualization provides an opportunity for participants to explore the places where they feel enslaved and envision and experience a sense of freedom.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><i><span><span>The leader should ask participants to close their eyes and sit with their feet flat on the floor with their hands resting comfortably in their laps. Allow a moment or two of silence and gentle breathing, then begin to read the visualization slowly, with plenty of pauses, allowing participants time to fully immerse themselves in the experience.</span></span></i></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, Holiday Resource Sampler, Volume 1: Passover", "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": 301, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Journey to Freedom, Journey to Healing - A Guided Visualization (for the leader) | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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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Is it self-imposed such as lack of achievement or externally imposed such as parents or politic...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "\n<p><b><span>-</span></b><span> What is oppressing us? Is it self-imposed such as lack of achievement or externally imposed such as parents or political current events that are out of our control, or both these things together?</span></p>\n<p><b><span>- </span></b><span>How can this seder night help us and heal us? </span></p>\n<p><b><span>- </span></b><span>How can we take care of ourselves and maintain a positive cycle?</span></p>\n<p><b><span>- </span></b><span>If we were really serious about our healing, why don't we tell the story of our deliverance every night, not just Passover?</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Chaverim Shel Shalom, JF& CS, Boston", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Questions", "slug": "four-questions" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 239, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Four Questions of Mental Health | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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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You say you're trying to help me, but I don't believe you.</span></p>\n<p><span>Why should I keep going? I give up. I quit. Forget it, I'm out of here. It's not worth the struggle. It's too hard.</span></p>\n<p><i><span>(Some call this child \"The Unenlightened Child\", one who is clueless about the experience of being labeled with a \"mental illness\".)</span></i></p>\n<p><b><span>The \"Unenlightened Child\" Asks: </span></b><span>What are they to me? Keep them off the streets and out of my way.</span></p>\n<p><b><span>The Simple Child Asks: </span></b><span>What is wrong with me?</span></p>\n<p><b><span>The Child Who Does Not Know How to Ask: </span></b><span>I need others to speak for me. Sometimes when a psychiatrist prescribes medications, I may not know enough to ask about side effects. Sometimes I'm so blown away by what the doctor is saying, I can't say a word. For this child, you shall tell of our stories, our triumphs, our struggles and our despair, saying, \"This is what God has done for us and this is what we do for God.\"</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Chaverim Shel Shalom, JF& CS, Boston", "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": 252, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Four Children | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/four-children-3", "og:title": "The Four Children | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "ten-plagues-2", "title": "Ten Plagues", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "The traditional haggadah speaks of Ten Plagues by which God accomplished our liberation from Egypt. Tonight, we enumerat...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "The traditional haggadah speaks of Ten Plagues by which God accomplished our liberation from Egypt. Tonight, we enumerate plagues of psychiatric conditions, which hinder our sense of wholeness, health, and freedom. For each one, our cup of joy is diminished by one drop:\n<p><span>ANXIETY </span></p>\n<p><span>EATING DISORDERS </span></p>\n<p><span>IMPULSIVITY </span></p>\n<p><span>MEDICATIONS </span></p>\n<p><span>STIGMA</span></p>\n<p><span>DEPRESSION </span></p>\n<p><span>FEAR OF DISAPPROVAL </span></p>\n<p><span>LOSS </span></p>\n<p><span>MOOD SWINGS </span></p>\n<p><span>YEARS OF THERAPY</span></p>\n<p><span></span></p>\n<p><span>And some say:</span></p>\n<p><span>LOW SELF-ESTEEM </span></p>\n<p><span>OBSESSIVE-COMPULSION </span></p>\n<p><span>PARANOIA </span></p>\n<p><span>GRANDIOSITY </span></p>\n<p><span>DISASSOCIATION</span></p>\n<p><span>ISOLATION </span></p>\n<p><span>MELANCHOLY </span></p>\n<p><span>HOPEFULNESS</span></p>\n<p><span><span></span>PSYCHOSIS </span></p>\n<p><span>SUICIDAL IDEATION</span></p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Chaverim Shel Shalom, JF& CS, Boston", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Ten Plagues", "slug": "ten-plagues" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 285, "tags": [ { "tag": "Plagues", "slug": "plagues" }, { "tag": "Modern Plagues", "slug": "modern-plagues" }, { "tag": "Mental Health", "slug": "mental-health" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/ten-plagues-2", "og:title": "Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "dayenu-0", "title": "Dayenu", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "If society provided compassionate caregivers and did not provide medication, Dayenu. If society provided medication and...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>If society provided compassionate caregivers and did not provide medication, <b><i>Dayenu</i></b>.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>If society provided medication and did not provide comprehensive health coverage, <b><i>Dayenu</i></b>.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>If society provided enough group homes and did not eliminate ignorance, <b><i>Dayenu</i></b>.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>If society elimnated ignorance and did not allocate resources for research, <b><i>Dayenu</i></b>.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>If society allocated resources for research and did not provide family and community support, <b><i>Dayenu</i></b>.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>If society provided family and community support and did not love us for us for who we are, <b><i>Dayenu</i></b>.</span></p><p></p>\n<p><i><span><span>Then, how much are we grateful for being able to work together, To advocate for ourselves, our needs, for what we know and feel is right, When the broken shall be whole, our shattered hearts restored anew.</span></span></i></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Chaverim Shel Shalom, JF& CS, Boston", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Cup #2 & Dayenu", "slug": "cup-2-amp-dayenu" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 225, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dayenu | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/dayenu-0", "og:title": "Dayenu | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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-seder", "title": "Introduction to the Seder", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Explain the Haggadah/journal at each place: While we will use a little of it during the program as our Haggadah, it is r...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><b><span>Explain the Haggadah/journal at each place:</span></b></p>\n<p><b><span></span></b><span>While we will use a little of it during the program as our Haggadah, it is really intended for participants to take home and to use it as a journal. It offers one comment on each of the steps of the seder as a reflection.</span></p>\n<p><span>1) Seder literally means “order.” Death and suffering upsets the natural order of the world, just as slavery and oppression upset natural order for Jewish people. Part of task of the seder, and grieving is to reestablish order in the world and in our lives. Sing the order of the Seder together (page at the beginning of the Haggadah.)</span></p>\n<p><span>2)<span> </span>Empty Chair – Instruct participants to take some time to introduce themselves and their loved one who is represented by the empty chair, that person’s name, and how many seders it will be without that person. Many people have lost more than one loved one, but ask them to introduce only one person at this time. Right now, ask them to just give the basic information- there will be time later for stories.</span></p>\n<p><span>3)<span> </span>Karpas - Take advantage of the sensory experience of Seder. Speak about the salt water as tears, green as spring and renewal - but in life, experiences are seldom pure, with only one thing at a time happening in our lives and emotions, so taste the sadness and hope together. Dip parsley in salt water, say the bracha together.</span></p>\n<p><span>4)<span> </span>Break the middle matza, and wrap it (have cloth or napkin handy.) Comment on matzah conveying a sense of brokenness- and/or on feeling of being hidden as a mourner, after the first weeks, and other feelings of being hidden, or God hiding, or that kind of thing.</span></p>\n<p><span>5)<span> </span>Questions – a seder must have questions, in order to tell the story. Even if only rabbis are at a seder, they must ask questions. Ask group to look at the seder plate and say what is unfamiliar. For most it will be the beet, in place of the bone. Since all of the objects are symbolic, in reality anything can be used. The bone is only symbolic of the Passover offering, so the beet can also be a symbol of that as well. One talmudic rabbi used a beet at his seder, so there is a long tradition to this. However, the beet here is for the purpose of making someone ask a question.</span></p>\n<p><span>What are your questions, especially the unanswerable ones that you have asked since the death of your loved one.</span></p>\n<p><span>6)<span> </span>Maggid – Telling the story. We begin this section by telling our national story of oppression and loss (can sing avadim hayyinu). Having told our national story, allow participants some time to share a personal story of a seder, or other holiday memory with their loved one – something funny, sad, or just an observation. (Group leader might need to model a quick story or image for group.)</span></p>\n<p><span>7)<span> </span>Dayenu/it would be enough - Jews are ambivalent about saying dayenu- we don’t really mean it would be enough if God took us out of Egypt, and left us at the edge of the sea. In the words of the Psalmist, when it comes to loved one, it would never be enough time - whether a person lives a single day, or a thousand years. Sing dayenu - just 3 or so verses, encourages people to think about their own “dayenu,” going through the steps of the blessings hich they did receive during loved ones life.</span></p>\n<p><span>8)<span> </span>Korech- the sandwich. Comment on various elements of the sandwich, and how in themselves they represent so many different aspects. For example, matzah is both a bread of poverty and of freedom. Also, haroset and romaine lettuce, as the brick and clay of the sandwich, are at first sweet. But the longer you chew, the more bitter it gets - like the Jewish experience in Egypt. Sometimes we hold onto our own bitterness and keep chewing it long after it helps us. (Instruct participants in making the sandwich and eat - no blessing is said)</span></p>\n<p><span>9) Elijah- theme of the second half of the seder is the theme of redemption. Elijah is prophet of healing, invite in healing for self and for world. Sing <i>Eliahu hanavi</i>.</span></p>\n<p><span>10) Hallel, included for us to rejoice and appreciate our blessings. Sing <i>ki l’olam hasdo </i>from the hallel, possibly to the melody of <i>Adir hu </i>(or choose another song to sing from hallel). If you use <i>ki l’olam hasdo</i>, comment on <i>hasdo/hesed</i>(loving - kindness) and encourage particpants to think about what kind of support has gotten them through hard times and what kind of <i>hesed </i>they have offered others.</span></p>\n<p><span>11) Conclude with a few Passover songs - you can point out that the song, <i>Chad Gadya</i>, ends with God vanquishing the Angel of death.</span></p>\n<p><span> </span></p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "\"Coping with the Empty Chair at the Seder: A workshop for bereaved Jews", "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": 226, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Introduction to the Seder | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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-seder", "og:title": "Introduction to the Seder | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "sanctifying-time", "title": "Sanctifying Time", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Time is a healer, we are always told. Your grief will get less over time. Yet, as time cycles around, it also reminds us...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><span>Time is a healer, we are always told. Your grief will get less over time. Yet, as time cycles around, it also reminds us of our losses. This is the season when...this is how we used to do it when... sometimes we feel a cushion of comfort as we remember fondly how we spent holidays with our loved one. And sometimes the pain is just as sharp and devastating as the first day.</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 182, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Sanctifying Time | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/sanctifying-time", "og:title": "Sanctifying Time | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "first-hand-washing", "title": "The First Hand Washing", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "The first hand-washing of the seder is unusual. The rabbis point out that even a child would wonder at least two things:...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>The first hand-washing of the seder is unusual. The rabbis point out that even a child would wonder at least two things: why do we wash without a blessing and why do we bother to wash when we will not be eating our meal for some time. They suggest that we wash our hands here in order to raise questions. Questions, both of wonder and of despair, are crucial to our growth as human beings. As Jews we have permission to ask questions, even of God, when we see and experience suffering.</span></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 291, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The First Hand Washing | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/first-hand-washing", "og:title": "The First Hand Washing | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "first-dipping-0", "title": "The First Dipping", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "The blessings: Blessed are You, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe, who creates the fruit of the earth. Ba-ruch at...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>The blessings: Blessed are You, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe, who creates the fruit of the earth. <i>Ba-ruch ata Adonai, Elo-hei-nu melech ha-olam, Bo-rei pree ha-ada-ma.</i></span></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>\n<p><span><span>Salt water represents our tears as slaves in Egypt. In my bereavement, as time goes by, what are still the sources of my tears? What still makes me cry? Is there anything that still enslaves me to my tears? The <i>karpas</i>, the spring vegetable, represents renewal that comes in the spring-time. As I move from grief and mourning back into a full and renewed life what is yet growing in me and what comes alive in me again?</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 179, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The First Dipping | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/first-dipping-0", "og:title": "The First Dipping | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "telling-story", "title": "Telling the Story", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "One of the central mitzvot of Passover is telling the story of oppression and the journey to liberation. It is interesti...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><span>One of the central <i>mitzvot </i>of Passover is telling the story of oppression and the journey to liberation. It is interesting to note that the Haggadah offers us at least four versions of the Passover story. There is telling symbols, historical recounting, moral expositions, and facts with expanded interpretations. What are some of the different ways in which you tell the stories of your loved one and the journey you took together?</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 251, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Telling the Story | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/telling-story", "og:title": "Telling the Story | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "washing-eating-matza", "title": "Washing Before Eating Matza", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "When we have been to a cemetery, it is customary to wash our hands before entering a building. It is a remnant of the Bi...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><span>When we have been to a cemetery, it is customary to wash our hands before entering a building. It is a remnant of the Biblical idea that contact with the dead puts an individual into a different state. Purification by water is necessary prior to re-entering the community. What rituals have been helpful to you in making the transition from focusing completely on your loved one, and being able to be more fully a part of your own, albeit changed, life?</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 256, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Washing Before Eating Matza | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/washing-eating-matza", "og:title": "Washing Before Eating Matza | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "eating-matza", "title": "Eating the Matza", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "The seder ritual seems to have it backward: One would think that we should eat the maror first, just as the bitter slave...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>The seder ritual seems to have it backward: One would think that we should eat the maror first, just as the bitter slavery preceded the liberation. But in truth, our chronology is not so simple. We need to have tasted freedom to really understand oppression. Maybe the lingering aftertaste of the matza can help see us through suffering and oppression. So it is, that the love we shared with our loved ones sustains us through the bitterness of their passing.</span><span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Motzi-Matzah", "slug": "motzi-matzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 337, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Eating the Matza | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "bitter-herb", "title": "The Bitter Herb", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "A Meditation on Maror By Ira Steingroot  (from A Different Night:: The Family Participation Haggadah, by Noam Zion and...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><i><span>A Meditation on Maror By Ira Steingroot  </span></i><span></span></span></p>\n<p><span><span>(<i>from A Different Night:: The Family Participation Haggadah, by Noam Zion and David Dishon) </i></span></span></p>\n<p><span><span>Personally, I cannot imagine Passover without horseradish. Its combination of intense pleasure and pain makes a good analog for the bittersweet nature of our memories at Passover. We remember good times with family and friends, often with those who are no longer with us or are far away. We give our brief lives added dimension by linking them to the pain and triumph of Jewish history. As the Irish fiddler Seamus Connolly once said in the name of this mother, \"We're never so happy as when we're crying.\" We never enjoy the horseradish so much as when it brings tears to our eyes.</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maror", "slug": "maror" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 305, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Bitter Herb | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/bitter-herb", "og:title": "The Bitter Herb | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "hillels-sandwich", "title": "Hillel's Sandwich", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Prepare sandwich of matza, maror, and charoset. 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We hang in the balance, alive, but not immortal, sandwiched between a fragile, limited, animal self and our eternal Divine image.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Koreich", "slug": "koreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 413, "tags": [ { "tag": "Mindfulness", "slug": "mindfulness" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Hillel's Sandwich | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/hillels-sandwich", "og:title": "Hillel's Sandwich | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "meal", "title": "The Meal", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Food is associated with life. When the mourners return from the cemetery, they are served a meal with specific foods. By...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><span>Food is associated with life. When the mourners return from the cemetery, they are served a meal with specific foods. By feeding the mourners and insisting that they make a commitment to life even in the face of loss, the community expresses its concern and caring for the mourners. Like the foods of the seder, the foods which make up the mourner's meal are deeply symbolic. For instance, the hard-boiled egg, common to both the seder and the meal of comfort is the symbol of new life, and of survival and strength, even in difficult circumstances.</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Shulchan Oreich", "slug": "shulchan-oreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 321, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Meal | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/meal", "og:title": "The Meal | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "afikoman", "title": "The Afikoman", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Finding and Eating the Afikoman In hiding and seeking the afikoman, we reunite the two parts separated at the beginning...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>Finding and Eating the Afikoman</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>In hiding and seeking the afikoman, we reunite the two parts separated at the beginning of the seder. At this moment, we have the opportunity to discover lost parts of ourselves, to become reconciled with relatives who have become distant and to find wholeness in aspects of Judaism which may not have been part of our lives. Finding that which is hidden is a powerful message when we feel loss and lost. Within our loss, we find ways of healing the broken part of our lives.</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Tzafun", "slug": "tzafun" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 395, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Afikoman | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/afikoman", "og:title": "The Afikoman | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "birkat-hamazon", "title": "Birkat Hamazon", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "The Blessing after the Meal \"They who sow in tears, shall reap with joy.\" You have shed many tears since the death of yo...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>The Blessing after the Meal</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>\"They who sow in tears, shall reap with joy.\" You have shed many tears since the death of your loved one. What are the blessings you received from your loved one which continue to nourish you? What are the blessings that have come into your life since your loss?</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Bareich", "slug": "bareich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 264, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Birkat Hamazon | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/birkat-hamazon", "og:title": "Birkat Hamazon | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "cup-elijah", "title": "Cup of Elijah", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Open door and sing: Eliyahu ha-navee, Eliyahu ha-Tish-bee Eliyahu, eliyahu, Eliyahu ha-Giladee Beem-hei-ra b'ya-mei-nu Y...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>Open door and sing:</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><i><span>Eliyahu ha-navee, Eliyahu ha-Tish-bee Eliyahu, eliyahu, Eliyahu ha-Giladee Beem-hei-ra b'ya-mei-nu Yavo ei-leinu Eem ma-shee-ach ben David Eem ma-shee-ach ben David</span></i></span></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>\n<p><span><span>Death and loss often lead to a sense of isolation. The doors to the heart and the doors to community and love seem to be closed. What are the beliefs and the hopes you have which can help you to open the door again?</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 400, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Cup of Elijah | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/cup-elijah", "og:title": "Cup of Elijah | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "pour-out-your-wrath", "title": "Pour Out Your Wrath", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Anger is very much a part of grieving. What are some of the things which have happened around the death of your loved on...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><i><span>Anger is very much a part of grieving. What are some of the things which have happened around the death of your loved one, and in the time since that have made you feel angry? </span></i></span></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>\n<p><span><b><span>On Anger </span></b><i><span>By Rabbi Ira Stone</span></i></span></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>\n<p><span><span>Anger results from our inability to admit the disparity between what we want and what is. It is a consequence of the impossibility of perfection in the created world in which the idea of perfection nevertheless exists...Following the example of the prophets, each of us has a mandate to assuage the destructive energy of anger in our selves, in other people and in God. We also have a mandate to accept the life-giving energy that emerges from the anger that is constructively channeled, whether it comes from God or from people.</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 295, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Pour Out Your Wrath | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/pour-out-your-wrath", "og:title": "Pour Out Your Wrath | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "praise", "title": "Praise", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "Hesed is often translated as loving-kindness. There are times when we are aware of God's loving-kindness towards us. Hes...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><i><span>Hesed </span></i></span><span><span>is often translated as loving-kindness. There are times when we are aware of God's loving-kindness towards us<i>. Hesed </i>is also a gift we receive from other beings, and which we can give to them. Recall some of the acts of <i>hesed </i>that you experienced, and in which you have engaged, since the death of your loved one.</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 273, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Praise | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/praise", "og:title": "Praise | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "teach-us-number-our-days-omer", "title": "Teach Us To Number Our Days- the Omer", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "By Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, CSW The number seven, which has so many associations in the Bible and Rabbinic tradition i...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span><i><span>By Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, CSW</span></i></span></p>\n<p><span></span><span><span>The number seven, which has so many associations in the Bible and Rabbinic tradition is primarily associated with the Creation of the world. It is a number of both generativity and of completion – the week being the basic unit of our lives, culminating in the “perfect rest” of Shabbat. Multiples of seven, similarly, are related to life, as the Psalmist says: “The span of our life is seventy years.” We may experience in the Omer’s 7 x 7 a symbolic movement through life, from our launching at birth to our ultimate arrival at death. Counting our days is a lot like counting our blessings: to get from our Start to our Finish, we ought to try to make each day “count”, and to appreciate moments along the way.</span></span></p><p></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "National Center for Jewish Healing, A Personal Passover Journal for memory and Contemplation", "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": 268, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Teach Us To Number Our Days- the Omer | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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/teach-us-number-our-days-omer", "og:title": "Teach Us To Number Our Days- the Omer | Passover haggadah by Kalsman Institute", "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": "conclusion", "title": "Conclusion", "author": "Kalsman Institute", "author_handle": "kalsman-institute", "author_initials": "KI", "covertext": "One chapter in my life has concluded, but my life journey continues. What do I look forward to in the coming year... .....", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/conversions/picture-179-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104211/picture-179.jpg", "body": "<p><span>One chapter in my life has concluded, but my life journey continues. What do I look forward to in the coming year... </span></p>\n<p><span>...for myself? ...for family and friends?</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span>...for my community? ...for my world?</span></p><p></p>\n<p><span><span>La-shana ha-ba-a bee-yeru-sha-layeem! 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