{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "go-down-moses-let-my-people-go-2", "title": "Go Down Moses (Let My People Go)", "author": "Benny Becker", "author_handle": "benny-becker", "author_initials": "BB", "covertext": "The earliest recording of “Go Down Moses” was found as a battle hymn for the escaped slaves of Fort Monroe, Virginia som...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The earliest recording of “Go Down Moses” was found as a battle hymn for the escaped slaves of Fort Monroe, Virginia sometime before July 1862. After that, the song gained a lot of popularity as an African American spiritual, representing the journey from slavery to freedom. Its lyrics come from the book of Exodus, where God tells Moses how to get the Israelites out of Egypt. According to Sarah Bradford’s biography of Harriet Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869), “Go Down Moses” was even used as a code song for fugitive slaves fleeing Maryland. That meant that the lyrics contained secret instructions on how to escape to freedom.</p>\n\n<p>So how did this song make its way from the Underground Railroad to the seder table? Or was it the other way around? The actual route doesn’t matter as much as the shared message – we sing this song to remember how it felt to be enslaved and hopeless. And to promise through our voices that we will fight injustice when we see it.<br />\n<br />\n<img src=\"https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/go-down-moses.jpg\" alt=\"go-down-moses.jpg\" /><br />\n<br />\n </p>\n\n<p>When Israel was in Egypt’s land, Let My people go;<br />\nOppressed so hard they could not stand, Let My people go;<br />\nGo down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,<br />\nTell old Pharaoh: Let My people go.</p>\n\n<p>The Lord told Moses what to do, Let My people go;<br />\nTo lead the children of Israel through, Let My people go.<br />\nGo down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,<br />\nTell old Pharaoh: Let My people go.</p>\n\n<p>The pillar of cloud shall clear the way, Let My people go;<br />\nA fire by night, a shade by day, Let My people go.<br />\nGo down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,<br />\nTell old Pharaoh: Let My people go.</p>\n\n<p>As Israel stood by the water-side, Let My people go;<br />\nAt God’s command it did divide, Let My people go.<br />\nGo down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,<br />\nTell old Pharaoh: Let My people go.</p>\n\n<p>When they had reached the other shore, Let My people go;<br />\nThey dang the song of triumph over, Let My people go.<br />\nGo down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,<br />\nTell old Pharaoh: Let My people go.</p>\n\n<p>Oh, let us all from bondage flee, Let My people go;<br />\nAnd let us all in G-d be free, Let My people go.<br />\nGo down, Moses, way down in Egypt’s land,<br />\nTell old Pharaoh: Let My people go.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Abby Sher / JTA: https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2016/how-go-down-moses-took-the-underground-railroad-to-the-seder-table , http://www.lutheran-hymnal.com/lyrics/hs825.htm", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 17, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Go Down Moses (Let My People Go) | Passover haggadah by Benny Becker", "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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Miriam th...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<h1>Miriam Ha-N'viah</h1>\n\n<p>This song focusing on the Prophet <a href=\"https://www.ritualwell.org/glossary/4/letterm#term281\"><cite>Miriam</cite></a> is sung to the traditional melody for <a href=\"https://www.ritualwell.org/glossary/4/lettere#term193\"><cite>Elijah</cite></a>'s song.</p>\n\n<hr />\n<p><a href=\"https://www.ritualwell.org/glossary/4/letterm#term281\"><cite>Miriam</cite></a> the prophet, strength and song in her hand<br />\nMiriam dance with us in order to increase the song of the world.<br />\nMiriam dance with us in order to repair the world.<br />\nSoon she will bring us to the waters of redemption.</p>\n\n<p> <em><a href=\"https://www.ritualwell.org/glossary/4/letterm#term281\"><cite>Miriam</cite></a> ha-n'vi'ah oz v'zimrah b'yadah.</em> </p>\n\n<p> <em>Miriam tirkod itanu l'hagdil zimrat olam.</em> <br />\n <em>Miriam tirkod itanu l'taken et ha-olam.</em> <br />\n <em>Bimheyrah v'yameynu hi t'vi'einu el mey ha-y'shuah.</em> </p>\n\n<p>מִרְיָם הַנְּבִיאָה עֹז וְזִמְרָה בְּיָדָהּ</p>\n\n<p>מִרְיָם תִּרְקֹד אִתָּנוּ לְהַגְדִּיל זִמְרַת עוֹלָם</p>\n\n<p>מִרְיָם תִּרְקֹד אִתָּנוּ לְתַקֵּן אֶת-הָעוֹלָם:</p>\n\n<p>בִּמְהֵרָה בְיָמֵינוּ הִיא תְּבִיאֵנוּ</p>\n\n<p>אֶל מֵי הַיְשׁוּעָה </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "By Rabbi Leila Gal Berner https://www.ritualwell.org/ritual/miriam-ha-nviah-1", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 23, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Miriam Ha-N'viah | Passover haggadah by Benny Becker", "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/miriam-ha-n-viah-1", "og:title": "Miriam Ha-N'viah | Passover haggadah by Benny Becker", "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": "orah-hi-1", "title": "Orah Hi", "author": "Benny Becker", "author_handle": "benny-becker", "author_initials": "BB", "covertext": "This song, “Orah Hi,” patterns itself after the traditional Passover closing song “Adir Hu,” which is an acrostic poem l...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>This song, “Orah Hi,” patterns itself after the traditional Passover closing song “Adir Hu,” which is an acrostic poem listing God’s many qualities of power, righteousness, oneness, sovereignty, and kindness. “Adir Hu” means “He is mighty.” The traditional song speaks of God in majestic terms, celebrating God’s power as part of the telling of the story of Passover, and praying for the rebuilding of the Temple.</p>\n\n<p>This alternative version is written in the feminine. Like “Adir Hu,” it is a Hebrew acrostic, and it can be sung to the traditional melody. Almost all of its images come from the Bible, from rabbinic literature, and from Jewish mysticism. Yet this song does not dwell on God’s power and distance. Rather, it emphasizes God’s sharing in human joys and griefs, and God’s ability to renew life through the strength of the earth. These are traits that many modern Jews have chosen to ascribe to the Divine as they seek their own ways of understanding God as immanent, earthy and embodied. In this version, we can imagine God’s house as our entire world infused with the Shekhinah, the indwelling Presence. Singing Adir Hu and Orah Hi together creates a fuller picture of the Divine and the human.</p>\n\n<p><br />\n <em>Orah hi, orah hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is light, she is light. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Binah hi, gilah hi, dimah hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is wisdom, She is joy, She is tears. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Hadar hi, vered hi, zerem hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is splendor, She is a rose, She is a flowing stream. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Chiddush hi, tibur hi, yichud hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is renewal, She is the center, She is oneness. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Keseh hi, leidah hi, ma’yan hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is the full moon, She is birth, She is the fountain-source. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Nechamah hi, selichah hi, otzmah hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is comfort, She is forgiveness, She is strength. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Pidyon hi, tzedek hi, kodesh hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov.</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is redemption, She is righteousness, She is holiness. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Ra’ya hi, shonah hi, tamah hi, tivnei veitah bekarov, bimheira, bimheira, beyameinu bekarov, elah b’ni, elah b’ni, b’ni veiteich bekarov</em> </p>\n\n<p>She is a beloved companion, She is always changing, She is complete and perfect. May She build her house speedily and in our days. God, build Your house soon— close to us in time and space.</p>\n\n<p>Rabbi Jill Hammer is the Director of Tel Shemesh, the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and the author of The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": null, "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 26, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Orah Hi | Passover haggadah by Benny Becker", "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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In addition, each orange segment had a few seeds that had to be spit out--a gesture of spitting out, repudiating the homophobia of Judaism.</strong></p><p><strong>When lecturing, I often mentioned my custom as one of many new feminist rituals that have been developed in the last twenty years. Somehow, though, the typical patriarchal maneuver occurred:</strong></p><p><strong>My idea of an orange and my intention of affirming lesbians and gay men were transformed. Now the story circulates that a man said to me that a woman belongs on the bimah as an orange on the Seder plate. A woman's words are attributed to a man, and the affirmation of lesbians and gay men is simply erased.</strong></p><p><strong>Isn't that precisely what's happened over the centuries to women's ideas? And isn’t this precisely the erasure of their existence that gay and lesbian Jews continue to endure, to this day?</strong></p><p><strong>-Professor Susannah Heschel</strong></p><p><strong>Acorn- to acknowledge the history of this land and the people who are indigenous to it. We sit today in Okahok Amai, as the area around Beckley was called by the native Moneton people, a branch of the eastern Siouan peoples. </strong></p><p><strong>We place an acorn on our seder plate:</strong></p><p><strong>To remember this land and how its First Peoples lived before the ravages of colonization.</strong></p><p><strong>To remind ourselves that we are guests here, and to honor our hosts.</strong></p><p><strong>To open ourselves to the vastness of the miracles that are already possible in our time, just as the oak is already possible within the acorn.</strong></p><p><strong>-Jews on Ohlone Land</strong></p><p><strong>Pine cone- to remind ourselves of mass incarceration, and those who are not free</strong></p><p><strong>“We pass over pine cones every day. Inside each of these pinecones is among the most precious of all nuts – the pine nut. Most of us pass more pine nuts in a single day than one could count in a year. Yet they remain hidden, unseen. Moreover, they’re nearly impossible to extract with our own hands. The pinecone ‘imprisons’ its seeds, and only hard work on the part of nature compels it to open up.” </strong></p><p><strong>-Temple Israel of Boston</strong></p><p><strong>Coffee beans-  to symbolize exploited labor and modern slavery. </strong></p><p><strong>“approximately 35.8 million men, women and children worldwide are enslaved, more people than at any point in the history of humanity. About 10 percent of enslaved people work in food industries, harvesting cacao, sugar, and tomatoes, raising cattle or catching fish. The frequent battle for cheaper prices in the global food marketplace might seem great for consumers, but “the reality is that competitive pricing is often the result of exploitative labor practices” where food is grown in disregard for human dignity and international laws.”</strong></p><p><strong>  -NeeshNoosh.net</strong></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "collected", "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": 20, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Seder Plate Symbols-- Standards and Additions | Passover haggadah by Benny Becker", "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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