{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "memorial-prayer-victims-holocaust", "title": "Memorial Prayer For Victims Of Holocaust", "author": "Abe Katz", "author_handle": "abe-katz", "author_initials": "AK", "covertext": "In the 1950's, the American Jewish Congress established the Seder Ritual Committee to compose and to distribute a memori...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104216/conversions/picture-203-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104216/picture-203.jpeg", "body": "<p>In the 1950's, the American Jewish Congress established the Seder Ritual Committee to compose and to distribute a memorial prayer for the victims of the Holocaust to be recited at the Seder after the prayer: Shifoch Chamascha.  Over a period of 15 years, more than 75,000 copies of the prayer were distributed to synagogues and Jewish organizations around the country.  You may have never heard of this prayer and two reasons can be given for why the prayer did not find a greater reception: no major publisher of Haggadahs ever included the prayer in one of its versions of the Haggadah and the Orthodox community failed to embrace the recital of the prayer.  Here are the words of the prayer:</p>\n<p>On this night of the Seder we remember with reverence and love the six millions of our people of the European exile who perished at the hands of a tyrant more wicked than the Pharaoh who enslaved our fathers in Egypt.  Come, said he to his minions, let us cut them off from being a people, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. And they slew the blameless and pure, men and women and little ones, with vapors of poison and burned them with fire.  But we abstain from dwelling on the deeds of the evil ones lest we defame the image of G-d in which man was created.</p>\n<p>Now, the remnants of our people who were left in the ghettos and camps of annihilation rose up against the wicked ones for the sanctification of the Name, and slew many of them before they died.</p>\n<p>On the first day of Passover the remnants in the Ghetto of Warsaw rose up against the adversary, even as in the days of Judah the Maccabee.  They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided, and they brought redemption to the name of Israel through all the world.</p>\n<p>And from the depths of their affliction the martyrs lifted their voices in a song of faith in the coming of the Messiah, when justice and brotherhood will reign among men.</p>\n<p>All sing: ANI MAAMIN (“I Believe”) the song of the martyrs in the ghettos and liquidation camps.</p>\n<p>Seder Ritual Committee</p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Seder Ritual Committee", "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": 231, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Memorial Prayer For Victims Of Holocaust | Passover haggadah by Abe Katz", "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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On all other nights we dip food only once while on this night we dip some food twice.  On all other nights we eat leaven and unleavened bread while on this night we eat only unleavened bread.  On all other nights we may eat meat that is roasted, boiled or cooked while on this night, we only eat meat that has been roasted.</p>\n<p>The third question found in the Jerusalem Talmud leads many to argue that the questions found in the Jerusalem Talmud were asked only while the Second Temple was standing. The basis for their argument is that most Jews today follow the practice of abstaining from eating roasted meat at the Seder.  That is based on a concern expressed by our Sages that some present at the Seder might mistakenly think that the roasted meat they are eating at the Seder is a substitute for the paschal lamb.  That sacrifice could be prepared by only one method of cooking; i.e. by roasting it.</p>\n<p>Thanks to the discovery in the 1880’s of a Geniza, a place where old Jewish books were placed to await burial, located in the attic of a synagogue in Cairo, we now know that Jews who followed the customs of Eretz Yisroel during the Middle Ages deliberately ate roasted meat at the Seder.  That practice was in conflict with the customs of the Babylonian Sages who prohibited the eating of roasted meat ate the Seder.  What lay behind this conflict?  The Jews who lived in Eretz Yisroel felt a much closer connection to the Second Temple than did the Jews of Babylonia.  The Jews in Eretz Yisroel believed that if they maintained as many of the customs of the Temple as they could, they would be demonstrating to G-d that they were ready to have G-d bring the Moshiach and to cause the rebuilding of the Temple.  </p>\n<p>The Jews of Babylonia expressed a different attitude.  Being Jews who had lived in the Diaspora for many centuries, they had adjusted to not being able to participate in the Temple activities.  They had a concern that following the customs of the Temple even after it had been destroyed as a means of hastening the coming of the Moshiach and the rebuilding of the Temple could lead to the rise of false Messiahs.  They were not totally wrong.  Many believed that Bar Kochva, the great military leader who led the second century CE rebellion against the Romans in Eretz Yisroel, was in fact the Messiah.</p>\n<p>One of the findings in the Geniza was the Haggadah that was recited by Jews who lived in Cairo in the 1200’s and who followed the customs of Eretz Yisroel. The three questions provided in the Jerusalem Talmud were the questions that opened the Seder for those Jews. That is evidence that as late as the 1200’s, a group of Jews continued to follow the customs of Eretz Yisroel and deliberately ate roasted meat at the Seder as a substitute for the Paschal lamb in the hope of hastening the coming of the Moshiach and the rebuilding of the Temple.</p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Unknown", "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": 206, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Four Questions Or The Three Questions | Passover haggadah by Abe Katz", "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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