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Introduction
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Introduction
Candle-Lighting Ceremony
The first words in the creation of the universe out of the unformed, void and dark earth were God’s “Let there be light." Therein lies the hope and faith of Judaism and the obligation of our people: to make the light of justice, compassion, and k...
Kadesh
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Kadesh
Kiddush
Kiddush - Wine READER:The joy of Passover is the joy of love; the hope of Passover is the hope of love. Our ancestors suffered the coldness of hate and dreamed of the warmth of human kindness and universal love. And then, after the long winter of the...
Urchatz
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Cover
Washing of the Hands (Buddhist & Jewish Haggadah)
As Rachel welcomed strangers at the well with water, so do we welcome each other to this Seder by washing the hands of thos at our table. We are not washing ourselves of dirt, but of attachment, guilt, and resentment. Each person in turn pours ...
Karpas
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Karpas
Karpas
KarpasRevolutionaryJews for Racial & Economic Justice The karpas gives us the tension between the aliveness of Spring and the bitter tears we wept in the land of Egypt. We are refreshed by the greenness of the karpas, yet our tastebuds wince... -
Karpas
Karpas prayer
READER: Spring is here. The world is alive and new; the bonds of winter cold are broken. Nature is reborn and the earth feels free and young again. The trees are budding; behind the buds lie flowers. The surprise of the world is about to burst open. ...
Yachatz
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Yachatz
Yachatz
Ritual ComponentLeader: No prayer is recited before we break the middle matzah on our Seder plate. This is a silent, reflective act. Reader: For we recognize that, like the broken matzah, we are incomplete, with prayers yet to be fulfilled,...
Maggid - Beginning
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Maggid - Beginning
Traditional - Maggid
Maggid – Beginning מגיד Raise the tray with the matzot and say: הָא לַחְמָא עַנְיָא דִי אֲכָלוּ אַבְהָתָנָא בְּאַרְעָא דְמִצְרָיִם. כָּל דִכְפִין יֵי...
-- Four Questions
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-- Four Questions
Traditional - Four Questions
Maggid – Four Questions מַהנִּשְּׁתַּנָה מַה נִּשְּׁתַּנָה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָּל הַלּ...
-- Four Children
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-- Four Children
Four Children? Nope! They're ALL US!
There is something else hidden tonight in addition to the Afikoman.We generally think of the Four Children as distinct individuals, or personalities, or types.Each asks (or doesn't ask) a different type of question and in a different ...
-- Exodus Story
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Maggid - Beginning
Maggid – The story of Exodus – מַגִיד
During the time when Pharaoh issued his decree to kill Israelite males, Moses, who later was to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt to freedom, was an infant. His concerned mother, Jochebed placed him in a basket of reeds in the Nile River wh...
