{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "meaning-passover-story", "title": "The Meaning of the Passover Story", "author": "Machar Congregation", "author_handle": "kelly73966", "author_initials": "MC", "covertext": "[Resume taking turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.] Passover is the cele...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": " <em>[Resume taking turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> \n\n<p>Passover is the celebration of life.\nThe story of the Jewish people is truly a triumph of life.\nAgainst the odds of history, the Jewish people have done more than survive -\nwe have adapted creatively to each new time, each new place,\nfrom the birth of our people to the present day.</p>\n\n<p>Even though death has pursued us relentlessly,\ntime and time again, we have chosen to live.\nDuring the many centuries of the Jewish experience,\nmemories of destruction are tempered\nby the knowledge that the world can also be good.</p>\n\n<p>We have endured slavery and humiliation.\nWe have also enjoyed freedom and power.\nDarkness has been balanced by light.</p>\n\n<p>Our forebears traveled the Earth\nin search of the safety and liberty they knew must exist.\nWe have learned to endure.\nWe have learned to progress.</p>\n\n<p>We are proud survivors.\nWe celebrate our good fortune\nand seek the advancement of all.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>One of the customs of the seder is the asking of questions -\nquestions about what the ritual actions of the seder mean.\nThe Passover tradition involves the youngest children asking - actually singing -\nabout these matters in a song we call \"The Four Questions.\" </p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Maggid - Beginning", "slug": "maggid-beginning" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 393, "tags": [ { "tag": "Maggid", "slug": "maggid" }, { "tag": "Secular", "slug": "secular" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Meaning of the Passover Story | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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It provides a setting of f...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The Passover Seder is one of the most important celebrations on the Jewish cultural calendar.<br />\nIt provides a setting of family love and unity in which all Jews can rededicate themselves to the ideal of human freedom and growth.</p>\n\n<p>The ritual of the occasion involves the use of certain symbolic foods:</p>\n\n<p>P'RI HA-GAPHEN - \"the fruit of the vine\" - wine or grape juice<br />\nMATSAH - unleavened bread<br />\nMAROR - a bitter herb (horseradish, green onion, or romaine lettuce)<br />\nKARPAS - parsley or celery<br />\nZ'ROA - an animal bone or a beet (for vegetarians)<br />\nBEITSAH - an egg, hard-boiled then roasted<br />\nTAPPUZ - an orange (a recent addition)<br />\nHAROSET - <span>a condiment made from fruits, nuts, spices, and wine </span></p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "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": 513, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Passover Seder | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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 are here because Spring is all around, the Earth is rebo...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "Leader:\n\n<p>We have come together this evening for many reasons.\nWe are here because Spring is all around, the Earth is reborn,\nand it is a good time to celebrate with family and friends.\nWe are here because we are Jews,\nbecause we are members of the Jewish nation,\nwith its deep historic roots and its valuable old memories and stories.</p>\n\n<p>We are here to remember the old story of the liberation of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt\n- a great struggle for freedom and dignity.\nWe are here because the struggle for human freedom never stops.\nWe are here to remember all people - Jews and non-Jews - who are still struggling for their freedom.</p>\n\n<p>As we feel how wonderful and important it is for diverse peoples to come together,\nlet us recite and then sing the words of HINNEH MAH TOV. </p>\n\n<p><strong>HINNEH, MAH TOV - BEHOLD, HOW GOOD! </strong> <em>(Adaptation* of T'hillim / Psalms 133.1)</em>    </p>\n\n<p>Behold, how good and how pleasant it is\nwhen peoples* dwell together in unity!</p>\n\n<p>Hinneh, mah tov u-mah naim\nshevet ammim* gam yahad! </p>\n\n<p>(*originally \"brothers\", or \"achim\")</p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "featured": 1, "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": 344, "tags": [ { "tag": "Family", "slug": "family" } ], "themes": [ { "theme": "Families", "slug": "families" } ], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why We Are Together Tonight | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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Against the backdrop of eternity the earth displays an ever-changing countenance. The sun rises and the sun sets, yet each day and each season is fresh and new.</p>\n\n<p>Slowly, one season emerges from another.\nThe harshness of ice and snow yields to gentle, nourishing showers. Inevitably, the cold, dark days succumb to the warmth and light of Spring. We rejoice in the warm light and rich blessings of this season.</p>\n\n<p>The celebration of Passover represents the perennial rebirth and survival\nof the Jewish people and the world of nature.\nThe light of these candles symbolizes a renewal of life, a reaffirmation of freedom. </p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>N'-varekh `et ha-`or\nka-`asher niqqavets b'-tsavta`\nl'-hadliqnerotshelyomtov.\nB'-`or ha-herut\nn'-varekh`et ha-haiyim.</p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p>Let us bless the light\nas we gather together\nto kindle the festival candles. 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Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>Spring is the season of new growth and new life.<br />\nEvery living thing must either grow, or die; growth is a sign and a condition of life.</p>\n\n<p>Human beings are perhaps unique among the Earth's inhabitants. Our most significant growth takes place inwardly.<br />\nWe grow as we achieve new insights, new knowledge, new goals.</p>\n\n<p>Let us raise our cups to signify our gratitude for life,<br />\nand for the joy of knowing inner growth, which gives human life its meaning. 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Why, on this night, do we eat only matsah?</p>\n\n<p><strong> <em>She-b-khol ha-leilot `anu `okhlin sh'`ar y'raqot, sh'`ar y'raqot, ha-lailah ha-zeh, ha-lailah ha-zeh maror, maror? </em> </strong><br />\nOn all other nights we eat herbs of any kind. Why, on this night, do we eat only bitter herbs?</p>\n\n<p><strong> <em>She-b-khol ha-leilot `ein `anu matbilin `aphilu pa'am `ehat, `aphilu pa'am `ehat, ha-lailah ha-zeh ha-lailah ha-zeh sh'tei ph'amim? </em> </strong><br />\nOn all other nights, we do not dip our herbs even once. Why, on this night, do we dip them twice?</p>\n\n<p><strong> <em>She-b-khol ha-leilot `anu `okhlin bein yoshvin u-vein m'subin, bein yoshvin u-vein m'subin, ha-lailah ha-zeh, ha-lailah ha-zeh kulanu m'subin? </em> </strong><br />\nOn all other nights, we eat either sitting or leaning. Why, on this night, do we eat while leaning?</p>\n\n<p>Leader:<br />\nAs we continue our seder, we will answer these four questions about what makes this night different from all other nights. </p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": 384, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Arba Qushyot - Four Questions (English & Transliteration) | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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 person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</p>\n\n<p>These questions are a central part of tonight's seder ceremony.<br />\nYet before we answer them, let us tell a story of Jewish hope.<br />\nThe tale of our people's first quest for freedom<br />\nfrom slavery in Egypt was written so long ago<br />\nthat no one knows how much of it is fact and how much is fiction.<br />\nLike all good stories, however, its moral lessons are valid and important.</p>\n\n<p>It is written that long ago, during a time of famine,<br />\nthe ancient Israelites traveled to Egypt.<br />\nAccording to this legend, the Israelites at that time were all in a single family -<br />\nJacob and his children.</p>\n\n<p>One of Jacob's sons was Joseph.<br />\nHe was so wise that the ruler of Egypt - the Pharaoh -<br />\nmade Joseph a leader over all the people of Egypt.</p>\n\n<p>But as time passed, another Pharaoh became the ruler of Egypt.<br />\nHe did not remember about Joseph and his wise leadership.<br />\nThis new Pharaoh turned the Israelites into slaves,<br />\nand burdened them with heavy work and sorrow.</p>\n\n<p>After the Israelites were in Egypt for over 400 years, a man arose among them.<br />\nHe demanded that Pharaoh let his people go!<br />\nMany times he risked his life to insist on the freedom of his people,<br />\nuntil he finally succeeded.</p>\n\n<p>At our Passover Seder, we celebrate the story of Moses<br />\nand the people he led out of slavery 3000 years ago.<br />\nWe celebrate the struggle of all people to be free.<br />\nThroughout the centuries, the story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt<br />\nhas inspired Jews and non-Jews in times of persecution and hardship.</p>\n\n<p>Let us remember that the thirst for freedom exists in all people.<br />\nMany centuries after the legendary time of Moses,<br />\nAfrican people were brought to America as slaves.<br />\nThese slaves longed for freedom,<br />\nand they were inspired by the story of Moses and the ancient Israelites.</p>\n\n<p>When the slaves in America sang \"Go Down Moses,\"<br />\nthey were thinking of their own leaders who were working to end slavery.<br />\nLet us now sing that beautiful song.</p>\n\n<p>-</p>\n\n<p>GO DOWN MOSES</p>\n\n<p>When Israel was in Egypt land, Let my people go!<br />\nOppressed so hard they could not stand, Let my people go!</p>\n\n<p>CHORUS:<br />\nGo down Moses,<br />\nWay down in Egypt land, Tell old Pharaoh<br />\nTo let my people go.<br />\nWhen Moses took them from their toil, Let my people go!<br />\nHe led them all to freedom's soil Let my people go!</p>\n\n<p>(CHORUS)</p>\n\n<p>-</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Take turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>The freedom we celebrate tonight is not only freedom from slavery.<br />\nIt is also the freedom to live in peace,<br />\nwith dignity and with hope for a bright future.<br />\nThis constant vision has inspired the Jewish people<br />\nsince the ancient times when the Bible was written.</p>\n\n<p>For centuries, most Jews lived in Europe,<br />\nwhere they were often persecuted.<br />\nThey were driven from place to place,<br />\nand their lives were often filled with terror and despair.</p>\n\n<p>There came a time when many Jewish families learned of a place called America,<br />\nwhere people could live without fear.<br />\nThis was the promise that America held out to them and to many other suffering people.</p>\n\n<p>By the thousands, and then by the millions, year after year they crossed a large ocean.<br />\nEnduring separation from all they had known,<br />\nthey faced the dangers of a long voyage before reaching the shores of America.</p>\n\n<p>For a time, many suffered from poverty and disease.<br />\nYet their courage, perseverance, and skills,<br />\nhelped to advance the freedoms that we celebrate here tonight.</p>\n\n<p>This evening, as we celebrate our own freedom<br />\nlet us take notice of the on-going struggles toward freedom<br />\nhere and in many other parts of the world.</p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "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": 423, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Maggid - Storyteller | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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", "keywords": "", "og:type": "article", "og:url": "https://www.haggadot.com/clip/herut-lyisrael-freedom-jewish-people", "og:title": "Herut L'Yisrael - Freedom for the Jewish People | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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": "our-pleasure-diminished-pain-others", "title": "Our Pleasure Diminished By The Pain of Others", "author": "Machar Congregation", "author_handle": "kelly73966", "author_initials": "MC", "covertext": "Leader: Let us all refill our cups. [Take turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Leader:<br />\nLet us all refill our cups.</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Take turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>Tonight we drink four cups of the fruit of the vine.<br />\nThere are many explanations for this custom.<br />\nThey may be seen as symbols of various things:<br />\nthe four corners of the earth, for freedom must live everywhere;<br />\nthe four seasons of the year, for freedom's cycle must last through all the seasons;<br />\nor the four matriarchs: Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Rachel.</p>\n\n<p>A full cup of wine symbolizes complete happiness.<br />\nThe triumph of Passover is diminished by the sacrifice of many human lives<br />\nwhen ten plagues were visited upon the people of Egypt.<br />\nIn the story, the plagues that befell the Egyptians resulted from the decisions of tyrants,<br />\nbut the greatest suffering occurred among those who had no choice but to follow.</p>\n\n<p>It is fitting that we mourn their loss of life, and express our sorrow over their suffering.<br />\nFor as Jews and as Humanists we cannot take joy in the suffering of others.<br />\nTherefore, let us diminish the wine in our cups<br />\nas we recall the ten plagues that befell the Egyptian people.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>As we recite the name of each plague, in English and then in Hebrew,<br />\nplease dip a finger in your wine and then touch your plate to remove the drop.</p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Blood</strong> - Dam (Dahm)<br />\n<strong>Frogs </strong>- Ts'phardea (Ts'phar-DEH-ah)<br />\n<strong>Gnats </strong>- Kinim (Kih-NEEM)<br />\n<strong>Flies </strong>- Arov (Ah-ROV)<br />\n<strong>Cattle Disease</strong> - Dever (DEH-vehr)<br />\n<strong>Boils</strong> - Sh'hin (Sh'-KHEEN)<br />\n<strong>Hail</strong> - Barad (Bah-RAHD)<br />\n<strong>Locusts</strong> - `Arbeh (Ar-BEH)<br />\n<strong>Darkness </strong>- Hoshekh (KHO-shekh)<br />\n<strong>Death of the Firstborn</strong> - Makkat B'khorot (Ma-katB'kho-ROT) </p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>[Take turns reading. Each person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>In the same spirit, our celebration today also is shadowed<br />\nby our awareness of continuing sorrow and oppression in all parts of the world.<br />\nAncient plagues are mirrored in modern tragedies.</p>\n\n<p>In our own time, as in ancient Egypt, ordinary people suffer and die<br />\nas a result of the actions of the tyrants who rule over them.<br />\nWhile we may rejoice in the defeat of tyrants in our own time,<br />\nwe must also express our sorrow at the suffering of the many innocent people<br />\nwho had little or no choice but to follow.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>As the pain of others diminishes our joys,<br />\nlet us once more diminish the ceremonial drink of our festival<br />\nas we together recite the names of these modern plagues:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Hunger<br />\nWar<br />\nTyranny<br />\nGreed<br />\nBigotry<br />\nInjustice<br />\nPoverty<br />\nIgnorance<br />\nPollution of the Earth Indifference to Suffering</strong></p>\n\n<p>Leader:<br />\nLet us sing a song expressing our hope for a better world. </p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "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": 406, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Our Pleasure Diminished By The Pain of Others | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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": "second-cup-1", "title": "The Second Cup", "author": "Machar Congregation", "author_handle": "kelly73966", "author_initials": "MC", "covertext": "Dedicated To The Struggle For Peace And Freedom The second cup of wine is dedicated not only to the struggles of the Jew...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Dedicated To The Struggle For Peace And Freedom</p>\n\n<p>The second cup of wine is dedicated<br />\nnot only to the struggles of the Jewish people,<br />\nbut to all people seeking a secure life free of fear and persecution.<br />\nWe hope and work particularly for the Israelis and the Palestinians<br />\nthat they may all learn to live together in freedom and peace.</p>\n\n<p>Let us strive to fulfill the words of the prophet Micah:<br />\n\"They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.<br />\nNation shall not take up sword against nation, they shall never again know war.<br />\nBut they shall sit every one under their vines and fig trees,<br />\nand none shall make them afraid\" (Micah 4.3-4).</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>Let us all raise our glasses in a toast to peace and freedom for all.<br />\nP'ri ha-gaphen - `itto, nishteh<br />\n\"L'-Shalom u-l'-Herut!\" </p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p>The fruit of the vine - with it, let us drink<br />\n\"To Peace and Freedom!\" </p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "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": 417, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Second Cup | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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Legend has it that when Moses and his followers fled Egypt, they moved so quickly that the bread they baked did not have time to rise.</p>\n\n<p>However, scholars have noted that long before the Jews celebrated Passover, Middle Eastern farmers celebrated a spring festival of unleavened bread. This was a festival where unleavened bread was made from the fresh barley grain newly harvested at this time of the year.</p>\n\n<p>The old fermented dough was thrown out so that last year's grain would not be mixed with this year's. Therefore, the new season began with the eating of unleavened bread - matsah. Later on, the Jewish people incorporated this agricultural festival into the celebration of freedom and renewal we now call Passover.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:<br />\nLet us now say a blessing for the matsah.</p>\n\n<p><strong>A BLESSING FOR THE UNLEAVENED BREAD<br />\nNOTSI` MATSAH- LET US BRING FORTH MATSAH</strong></p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>Notsi`matsah-lehem min ha-`arets<br />\n- k'dei she-nistapeq v'-nit-kalkelkula-nu.</p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Let us bring forth matsah - food from the land -<br />\nso we all may be satisfied and sustained.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Leader:<br />\nLet us all now eat a piece of matsah.</p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar Congregation", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "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": 496, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Matsah - Unleavened Bread | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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 force ourselves to taste pain so that we may more readily value pleasure.</p>\n\n<p>Scholars inform us that bitter herbs were eaten at spring festivals in ancient times. The sharpness of the taste awakened the senses and made the people feel at one with nature's revival. Thus, maror is the stimulus of life, reminding us that struggle is better than the complacent acceptance of injustice.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:<br />\nAs a blessing for the maror, let us all sing this song about striving to be fully human.<br />\nThen we will all take a taste of horseradish on a piece of matsah.  </p>\n\n<p><strong>LIH'YOT `ISH - TO BE FULLY HUMAN</strong>  (Mishnah, Pirqei `Avot 2.6)</p>\n\n<p>Ba-maqomshe-`ein`anashim, hishtaddel lih'yot `ish.<br />\nWhere people are less than human, strive to be fully human. </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar Congregation", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": 346, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Maror - The Bitter Herb | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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The first time, the salty taste reminds us of...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "SALT WATER - Why do we dip our food in salt water two times on this night?\nThe first time, the salty taste reminds us of the tears we cried when we were slaves.\n\n<p> <em>[Greens held up for all to see.]</em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>KARPAS</strong> - Parsley and celery are symbols of all kinds of spring greenery.\nThe second time, the salt water and the green can help us to remember\nthe ocean and green plants and the Earth, from which we get the water and air and food that enable us to live.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:\nN'-varekh `et pri ha-`Adamah.</p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Let us bless the fruit of the Earth.</strong></p>\n\n<p>[Please dip your parsley into salt water two times and eat it.] </p>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "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": 416, "tags": [ { "tag": "Karpas", "slug": "karpas" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dipping Greens in Salt Water | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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 person is invited to read a grouped set of lines - or to pass.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>During this festival of life, let us remember our lost sisters and brothers - the millions of Jews enslaved and killed in the Holocaust. We remember them along with all the others who suffered.</p>\n\n<p>They were all parts of the rainbow - of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities, of progressive activists, resistance fighters, and people with disabilities. Their anguish and death is with us, even in our times of celebration.</p>\n\n<p>We resolve that their memory shall not be lost. We accept the responsibility of working to prevent such suffering from ever again occurring on this earth.</p>\n\n<p>We remember the heroism of those who fought against fascism and tyranny in the forests and the cities of Europe.Men, women, and children who loved freedom and humanity struggled with their own hands against the powerful armies of those who sought to oppress and kill them.</p>\n\n<p>We remember the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the dawn of the first day of Passover, April 19, 1943.  The Nazis were coming to complete the deportation of the remaining Jews to the death camps.</p>\n\n<p>A shot rang out on Nalevki Street, signaling the beginning of this Jewish revolt. A few hundred Jews with a few guns and hand grenades had decided to resist the tremendous power of the German army and the Gestapo. The courageous men and women of the Jewish Fighting Organization held out for forty-two days.</p>\n\n<p>Although few of the Jewish fighters survived the battle, the story of their courage will never die. Similar acts of resistance took place in Minsk, Vilna, Bialystock, in the cities and towns of Poland, and even in the death camps - Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz. </p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>We were slaves in Egypt and we were slaves in fascist Europe. We have much to remember.<br />\nLet us raise our glasses to those who were taken from us and to those who fought for freedom and life. </p>\n\n<p><strong>P'ri ha-gaphen-`itto,nishteh \"L'-Haiyim!\" </strong>  </p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p><strong>\"L'- Haiyim!\" </strong></p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "featured": 1, "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": 370, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Remembrance - The Third Cup | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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Let us celebrate the bounty of our lives by singing our version of that old favorite \"DAYENU.\" </p>\n\n<p>DAYENU<br />\n[\"Dayenu\" means \"Enough for us.\"]</p>\n\n<p>`Im yesh la-nu herute-nu (3x)<br />\ndayenu.</p>\n\n<p>Chorus:<br />\nDay, day-enu, day, day-enu, day, day-enu, dayenu, dayenu. (repeat)</p>\n\n<p>`Im yesh la-nu simhate-nu (3x)<br />\ndayenu.</p>\n\n<p>Chorus</p>\n\n<p>`Im yesh la-nu tiqva-te-nu (3x)<br />\ndaye-nu.</p>\n\n<p>Chorus</p>\n\n<p><strong>If we have our freedom, it is enough for us.<br />\nIf we have our happy occasion (our seder), it is enough for us.<br />\nIf we have our hope, it is enough for us. </strong></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar Congregation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": 422, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Humanist Dayenu | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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/daiyenu-humanist", "og:title": "Humanist Dayenu | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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": "better-world-fourth-cup", "title": "For a Better World - The Fourth Cup", "author": "Machar Congregation", "author_handle": "kelly73966", "author_initials": "MC", "covertext": "Leader: Let us all refill our cups. Leader picks up cup for all to see. This is the cup of hope. The seder tradition i...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Leader:<br />\nLet us all refill our cups.</p>\n\n<p> <em>Leader picks up cup for all to see.</em> </p>\n\n<p><strong>This is the cup of hope.</strong><br />\n<br />\nThe seder tradition involves pouring a cup for the Hebrew prophet Elijah. For millennia, Jews opened the door for him, inviting him join their seders, hoping that he would bring with him a messiah to save the world.</p>\n\n<p>Yet the tasks of saving the world - once ascribed to prophets, messiahs and gods - must be taken up by us mere mortals, by common people with shared goals. Working together for progressive change,we can bring about the improvement of the world, tiqqun ha-olam - for justice and for peace, we can and we must.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>Let us now symbolically open the door of our seder to invite in all people of good will and all those in needto work together with us for a better world.Let us raise our fourth cup as we dedicate ourselves to tiqqun olam, the improvement of the world.</p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p><strong>\"L' Tiqqun Olam!\"</strong></p>\n\n<p> <em>All drink the fourth cup.</em> </p>\n\n<p></p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "featured": 1, "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": 461, "tags": [ { "tag": "Secular", "slug": "secular" }, { "tag": "Kiddush", "slug": "kiddush" }, { "tag": "Hallel", "slug": "hallel" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "For a Better World - The Fourth Cup | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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To remind us of these values as we go back out into the world, at the end of our festival meal, we shall return to have a final taste of matzah - our symbol of suffering and liberation, of renewal in nature and humanity.</p>\n\n<p>I am breaking this matzah into two pieces. One half I will return to the table.</p>\n\n<p> <em>[Leader breaks a matzah, sets down half, and holds up half as the afikoman.]</em> </p>\n\n<p>The other half I will wrap in a napkin and save until the end of the meal. This piece is called the 'Afikoman'</p>\n\n<p>Without it the seder cannot end, so I must make sure that it does not get lost. Of course, I am very forgetful, so I may need help finding it if I do misplace it. In fact, I manage to lose it every year - it ends up seemingly \"hidden\" (tsaphun). So just figure that I'll be asking all you younger folks to help me find it pretty soon.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Yachatz", "slug": "yachatz" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 409, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Breaking the Matzah | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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": "nirtsah-fulfillment", "title": "Nirtsah - Fulfillment", "author": "Machar Congregation", "author_handle": "kelly73966", "author_initials": "MC", "covertext": "Leader: [Announces the name of the child or children who found the `afikoman.] Let us continue our seder by eating on...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>Leader: <em>[Announces the name of the child or children who found the `afikoman.] </em> <br />\nLet us continue our seder by eating one last little piece of matsah to leave us with the taste of freedom's struggles.</p>\n\n<p>[Everyone eat a last piece of matsah.]</p>\n\n<p>Now, let us conclude our seder.</p>\n\n<p>Everyone:</p>\n\n<p>We have recalled struggles against slavery and injustice.<br />\nWe have sung of freedom and peace.<br />\nWe revisited times of persecution and times of fulfillment.<br />\nOnly half a century ago, Nazis committed the crimes of the Holocaust.<br />\nToday, as Jews in the United States, we are more free than at any other time.</p>\n\n<p>Yet Jewish history shows that life is ever-changing,<br />\nand we must learn how to survive under all conditions.<br />\nWhen we are persecuted, we must struggle for our own freedom.<br />\nThe more freedom we attain,<br />\nthe more we must help others attain freedom.</p>\n\n<p>This is the lesson of Passover. This is why we celebrate the Festival of Freedom. </p>\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar Congregation", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "Secular Haggadah", "slug": "secular-haggadah-8", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Nirtzah", "slug": "nirtzah" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 304, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Nirtsah - Fulfillment | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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There are other spec...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>We have answered the four traditional questions, but there are still more questions to be answered.<br />\nThere are other special foods on our Seder plate:</p>\n\n<p>a bone (z'roa) or a beet,<br />\na roasted egg (beitsah)<br />\nan orange,<br />\nand, many people's favorite, the sweet condiment (haroset).</p>\n\n<p>Why are they here?</p>\n\n<p><strong>Z'ROA - SHANKBONE OR BEET</strong></p>\n\n<p>Z'ROA can mean a shankbone - the bone of a forelimb - or a vegetable.<br />\nThis lamb's bone is the symbol of the ancient shepherd's festival of Pesah or Passover.</p>\n\n<p>It was celebrated at the time of the full moon in the month lambs and goats were born. 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Beitsah symbolizes the fragility and interdependence of life.</p>\n\n<p>[All who so desire may now eat a piece of egg.]</p>\n\n<p><strong>TAPPUZ - ORANGE</strong></p>\n\n<p>Why have we added an orange to our seder plate?<br />\nWe place this fruit among our ceremonial foods as a symbol of our efforts to make sexual minorities feel acknowledged in our community. We recognize the contributions made by these family members and friends.</p>\n\n<p>By inviting and welcoming all with open hearts and open minds, we celebrate diversity and freedom. We put an orange on our seder plate as a new symbol of liberation around sexuality and gender roles.</p>\n\n<p>[All may eat a piece of orange.]</p>\n\n<p><strong>HAROSET - CONDIMENT</strong></p>\n\n<p>Why do we eat haroset?<br />\nFruits, nuts, spices, and wine are combined to make this sweet condiment. Being the color of clay or mortar, it reminds us of the bricks and mortar used by slaves - Jews and others - in building the Pharaohs' palaces and cities. Yet the taste of haroset is sweet, and thus reminds us of the sweetness of freedom.</p>\n\n<p>Leader:</p>\n\n<p>Let us now all eat haroset on a piece of matsah.<br />\nWe now make a little sandwich - called a \"korekh\" or a \"Hillel sandwich;\" tradition credits Rabbi Hillel with creating this sandwich 2000 years ago. By eating some bitter herb (maror) and some haroset between two pieces of matsah, you can taste the \"bittersweet\" meaning of Passover. </p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Machar", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": null, "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": 560, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Other Seder Symbols - Shankbone, Beet, Egg, Orange & Haroset | Passover haggadah by Machar Congregation", "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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