{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "refugees-give-refuge-rhode-island-mitzvah", "title": "Refugees Give Refuge: A Rhode Island Mitzvah", "author": "Mishael Zion", "author_handle": "mishzion", "author_initials": "MZ", "covertext": "When we retell the story of our flight from Egypt, we come to appreciate all those who have been refugees and fugitives....", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/113990/conversions/ANR-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/113990/ANR.jpg", "body": "<p>When we retell the story of our flight from Egypt, we come to appreciate all those who have been refugees and fugitives. The oldest standing synagogue in North Americawas built in 1763 inNewport, Rhode Island, by Spanish-Portuguese immigrants, descendants of <span>persecuted</span> Marrano Jews. <span>They had come to America</span> so they could, for the first time in generations, openly practice their Judaism in their new home. In the center of the synagogue, under the <em>Bima</em>, they built a special hiding place, as a lesson learned from their many years of persecution and their undercover Jewish practice. F<span>or 100 years the congregants retold their story and passed on the secret of the underground shelter</span>. </p><p>Thankfully, Jews have never had to use this hideout. But there were other people who came to the synagogue in search of a hiding place, on their way to freedom from oppression: In the years preceding the Civil War and the emancipation of slaves in the United States <span>(1863, 100 years after the synagogue was founded),</span> many slaves were smuggled from the South to the North, on their way to safety in Canada. The Jewish community put their synagogue and its underground hiding place at the disposal of the refugee slaves, fugitives from injustice, on their way to freedom. In this way they gave a renewed interpretation to the <em>mitzvah</em> :</p><p>\"If a slave has taken refuge with you from <span>his/her</span> persecutors, do not hand the slave over to the master. Let the fugitive <span>slave</span> live among you wherever <span>s/he</span> likes and in whatever town <span>s/he</span> chooses. Do not oppress the <span>slave</span>.\" <span>(Deuteronomy, 23:15-16)</span></p><p><span> </span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices by Mishael Zion and Noam Zion http://haggadahsrus.com/NTR.html", "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": 376, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Refugees Give Refuge: A Rhode Island Mitzvah | Passover haggadah by Mishael Zion", "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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Toni...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/113990/conversions/ANR-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/113990/ANR.jpg", "body": "<p><strong>Welcome to Our Seder</strong></p>\n\n<p>Today is the Jewish people's birthday<br />\nand the rebirth of personal freedom for each individual.<br />\nTonight is a journey of rediscovery: to relive slavery and poverty,<br />\nand then to experience liberation and taste abundance.<br />\nEating together = we become a community of caring for each other's needs.<br />\nReading, discussing and arguing = we become a community of learners.<br />\nAsking questions and telling stories = we become a community of memory.<br />\nPlaying and acting = we become a community of imagination.<br />\nPraying together = we become a community of hope, willing to take a stand.<br />\nSinging together = we become a community of joy and appreciation.<br />\nJoin in, take part, <strong>feel free</strong> to ask, to add (and to skip)...<br />\nNo matter your background, no matter your age, no matter your knowledge.<br />\nFeel free to make this Seder your own.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Feel Free!</strong></p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices by Mishael Zion and Noam Zion http://haggadahsrus.com/NTR.html", "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": 458, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Welcome to our Seder | Passover haggadah by Mishael Zion", "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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But...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/113990/conversions/ANR-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/113990/ANR.jpg", "body": "<p><strong><span>From a Sacrifice to a Symposium</span></strong></p><p><span>The term \"Seder Pesach\" once meant the Order of the Passover Sacrifice in the Temple. But after the Temple's destruction in 70 CE, the Rabbis remodeled the Seder after the Greco-Roman symposium ( <em>sym</em> - together, <em>posium</em> - drinking wine)<strong>. </strong>At these Hellenistic banquets guests would recline on divans while servants poured them wine, washed their hands and served appetizers and dips before the meal. In the meantime the symposium host functioned as a talk show moderator. An ancient how-to manual for conducting such a symposium says:</span></p><p><span>\"A symposium is a communion of serious and mirthful entertainment, discourse and actions. It leads to deeper insight into those points that were debated at table, for the remembrance of those pleasures which arise from meat and drink is short-lived, but the subjects of philosophical queries and discussions remain always fresh after they have been imparted.\" (Athenaeus, </span> <em><span>Banquet of the Learned</span></em> <span>, 2^nd C</span><span>) </span></p><p><span>Thus the Rabbis' prescribed such a banquet for the telling of the Exodus: much wine (four cups); appetizers (celery dipped in salt water); reclining on pillows; having our hands ceremonially washed by others; a royal feast; and most importantly – a philosophical discussion on the story of the Exodus and the issues of freedom versus slavery. The Rabbis wanted Pesach to be an experience of freedom, aristocracy and affluence – thus they chose to mimick the eating habits of their affluent contemporaries.</span></p><p><span>However, there is a fundamental difference: The Greco-Roman feast was for the rich only, it exploited slaves, it restricted asking questions and exchanging opinions to the ruling class, men only. But at the Pesach Seder all people are invited to eat like royalty, to ask questions and to express opinions, even the spouses and the youngest children. Alongside the wine of the rich, there is the bread of poverty.  The needy must be invited to share our meal. Stylish banquets may easily turn corrupt, but the Seder encourages us to savor our liberty, without exploiting or excluding others. </span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices by Mishael Zion and Noam Zion http://haggadahsrus.com/NTR.html", "featured": 1, "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": 514, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "From a Sacrifice to a Symposium | Passover haggadah by Mishael Zion", "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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I will <strong>take </strong>them out... I will <strong>rescue</strong> them… I will <strong>redeem</strong> them… and I will <strong>marry </strong>them taking them as my people and I will be their God\" (Exodus 6:6-7, Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim 10:1).</p>\n\n<p>However, two 16th C. mystic rabbis identify the Four Cups with the Four Matriarchs of Israel. The Maharal of Prague (famous for the legend of Golem) and Rav Isaiah Horowitz of Tsfat explain:</p>\n\n<p>(1) The Cup of Kiddush stands for <strong>Sarah </strong>who was the mother of a community of converts, believers by choice.</p>\n\n<p>(2) The Cup of Maggid is for <strong>Rebecca</strong> who knew how to mother both Esav and Jacob, two opposed natures.</p>\n\n<p>(3) The Cup of the Blessing after Eating represents <strong>Rachel </strong>whose son Joseph provided the whole family of Jacob with bread in a time of great famine.</p>\n\n<p>(4) The Cup of Hallel (Praise) is for <strong>Leah </strong>who came to realize that the pursuit of the impossible, Jacob's love, must give way to appreciation of what one has. 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The sound of the breaking of the matza sends us into that fractured existence, only to become whole again when we find the broken half, the afikoman, at the end of the Seder.\n\n<p>This brokenness is not just a physical or political situation: It reminds us of all those hard, damaged places within ourselves. All those narrow places from which we want to break to free. In Hebrew, Egypt is called <em>Mitzrayim</em>, reminding us of the word <em>tzar</em>, narrow. Thus, in Hassidic thought, Mitzrayim symbolizes the inner straits that trap our souls. 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