{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "plague-darkness-0", "title": "The Plague of Darkness", "author": "Rabbi Josh Franklin", "author_handle": "josh-franklin", "author_initials": "RF", "covertext": "The Torah teaches that the darkness was so thick that it could be felt, so blinding that a person could not see his fell...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104321/conversions/profile886924179886-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104321/profile886924179886", "body": "<p>The Torah teaches that the darkness was so thick that it could be felt, so blinding that a person could not see his fellow. Within such a darkness, a person does not see or feel the distress of others. Our senses are dulled. 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Vayishbot bayom hashvi'i mikol melachto asher asah.  Vayevarech elohim et yom hashvi'i vayekadesh oto. Ki vo shavat mikol melachto asher barah elohim la'asot. </em> </p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was evening and there was morning. On the sixth day, the heavens and the earth and all their hosts were completed. And God completed, on the seventh day, God’s work which God had made, and God ceased on the seventh day, all God’s work in which God had been engaged. And God blessed the  seventh day and sanctified it; because on it God ceased all God’s work which God had created.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן:</p>\n\n<p>בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר בָּחַר בָּנוּ מִכָּל-עָם, וְרוֹמְמָנוּ מִכָּל-לָשׁוֹן, וְקִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו, וַתִּתֶּן-לָנוּ יְיָ אֱלֹהֵינוּ בְּאַהֲבָה (לשבת  שַׁבָּתוֹת לִמְנוּחָה וּ)מוֹעֲדִים לְשִׂמְחָה, חַגִּים וּזְמַנִּים לְשָׂשׂוֹן אֶת-יוֹם (לשבת הַשַּׁבָּת הַזֶה וְאֶת-יוֹם) חַג הַמַּצוֹת הַזֶּה. זְמַן חֵרוּתֵנוּ, (לשבת בְּאַהֲבָה,) מִקְרָא קֹדֶשׁ, זֵכֶר לִיצִיאַת מִצְרָיִם. כִּי בָנוּ בָחַרְתָּ וְאוֹתָנוּ קִדַּשְׁתָּ מִכָּל-הָעַמִים. (לשבת  וְשַׁבָּת) וּמוֹעֲדֵי קָדְשֶׁךָ (לשבת  בְּאַהֲבָה וּבְרָצוֹן) בְּשִׂמְחָה וּבְשָׂשׂוֹן הִנְחַלְתָּנוּ: בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה</p>\n\n<p>יְיָ, מְקַדֵּשׁ (לשבת  הַשַׁבָּת וְ) יִשְׂרָאֵל וְהַזְמַנִּים:</p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, borei p’ri hagafen.</em> </p>\n\n<p> <em>Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, asher bachar banu mikolam, v’rom’manu mikol-lashon, v’kid’shanu b’mitzvotav, vatiten-lanu Adonai Eloheinu b’ahavah (shabbatot limnucha u’)moadim l’simchah, chagim uz’manim l’sason et-yom (hashabbat hazah v’et-yom) chag hamatzot hazeh. Z’man cheiruteinu, (b’ahavah) mikra kodesh, zeicher litziat mitzrayim. Ki vanu vacharta v’otanu kidashta mikolha’amim. (v’shabbat) umo’adei kod’shecha (b’ahavah uvratzon) b’simchah uv’sason hinchaltanu. Baruch Atah Adonai, m’kadeish (hashabbat v’) Yisrael v’hazmanim.</em> </p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Blessed are You Adonai our God, Sovereign of the Universe who created the fruit of the vine.</p>\n\n<p>Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the Universe, who has chosen us from among the nations, and elevated us from  other peoples, and sanctified us with commandments. Adonai our God gave us the seasons in love. as a joy, the holidays and the appointed times as a celebration, this holiday of Matzah. It is the time of our freedom, and is called holy as we remember the exodus from Egypt. For it us that God chose and sanctified from all the peoples. And You appointed us Your holy times in joy and gladness. ּBlessed are You Adonai, who </p>\n\n<p>sanctifies Israel and the times.</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Kadesh", "slug": "kadesh" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 280, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Kadesh | Passover haggadah by Rabbi Josh Franklin", "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 if he has no wife, then he asks himself. And even if there are only two wise sage, and both of them know all the laws of Passover, then each must ask each other</strong></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Pesachim 116a</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Rabbi Josh Franklin: </strong></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Who asks the four questions? The tradition has emerged that the youngest child at the table should ask four perscribed questions.  The talmudic sages placed the emphasis simply on the act of questioning.  Children should always be allowed to ask questions, but it also becomes the responsibility of the seder participants to take part in the  tradition, even if they might already know the answer. Jewish tradition values a thoughtful question more than a good answer.  On Passover, as we celebrate our freedom, we are also reminded that  slaves lack the ability to ask questions. In  simply posing questions, we  show that  we are free!</p>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "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": 289, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Who Asks the Four Questions? | Passover haggadah by Rabbi Josh Franklin", "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...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104321/conversions/profile886924179886-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104321/profile886924179886", "body": "<p>Dayeinu</p>\n\n<p>It would have been too much if only Columbine had been the single scar on the flesh of our country. Dayeinu!</p>\n\n<p>It would have been too much if only the lecture halls at Virginia Tech had transformed into morgues. Dayeinu!</p>\n\n<p>It would have been too much if only the innocence of Newtown’s young children had been savaged. Dayeinu!</p>\n\n<p>It would have been too much if only Orlando’s nightclub had been drenched with the blood of innocent women and men. Dayeinu!</p>\n\n<p>It would have been too much if only bullets had rained down upon a crowded plaza in Las Vegas. Dayeinu!</p>\n\n<p>It would have been too much if only the fresh corpses of Parkland cried out from the grave. Dayeinu!</p>\n\n<p>It would have been too much if even a single life was taken, because our tradition values every life as a world entire. Dayeinu!</p>\n\n<p>Enough is Enough Dayeinu!</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Rabbi Josh Franklin", "featured": 1, "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": 378, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Dayeinu!!! | Passover haggadah by Rabbi Josh Franklin", "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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L...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104321/conversions/profile886924179886-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/104321/profile886924179886", "body": "<p>זֹאת כּוֹס מִרְיָם, כּוֹס מַיִם חַיּים. זֵכֶר לִיצִיאַת מִצִרָיִם</p>\n<p>This is the cup of Miriam, the cup of living waters. Let us remember the well of Miriam gave life to the Israelites as the struggled through the wilderness.</p>\n<p>דרש רב עוירא: בשכר נשים צדקניות שהיו באותו הדור נגאלו ישראל ממצרים</p>\n<p>Rabi Avira taught: By the merit of righteous women, a generation of Israel was redeemed from Egypt. 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You might assume that this is kind of like the grammar for the word “fish” in english. It can be either singular or plural. But that’s not the case, in Hebrew, an invasion of frogs would be צְפַרְדְּעִים <i>tzvardeim</i>, not צְּפַרְדֵּעַ <i>tvareiah</i>.</p>\n\n<p>Whenever there is a textual oddity like this, the rabbis like to tell a story to reconcile the situation. According to the Midrash, the plague was actually one giant Godzilla-like frog that emerged from the Nile, and only when the Egyptians attacked it, did it split and multiply, replicating itself over and over again into a swarm of frogs. By attacking the frog, the Egyptians made the situation and the plague worse (Midrash Tanchuma, va’era 14).</p>\n\n<p>What is this Midrash trying to teach? That when it comes to plagues, we sometimes develop a myopia, an inability to see beyond the harsh symptoms manifesting. The Egyptians are so preoccupied with the giant frog, that they fail to realize that the frog was not the problem. The root problem was Pharaoh, who refused to abide by the demands of God and Moses. If you find things that you don’t like, and you hit them with a stick over and over again until it goes away, you’ll never really fix the problem. When you attack the symptom of your problem, and fail to deal with the actual problem, you only make things worse.</p>\n\n<p>This is the lesson of the Torah, and this is a lesson that so many have failed to learn during COVID. When we have the myopic view that our economy is failing as there are restrictions on businesses during the pandemic, and we treat this symptom by reducing restrictions on businesses, opening up hazardous environments because it generates revenue, we are going to see the virus that caused the economic downturn worsen! It’s just like hitting that giant frog over and over again. You started out with a single frog, and now you have a plague that has spread. This is the thinking of Egypt. This is the thinking of a Pharaoh.</p>\n\n<p>Similarly, people who believe that the solution to their loneliness is to be around other people are fueling the problem that causes the symptom. What’s more lonely than not being able to see your friends and your family? Having your friends and family die; and what’s worse, living with the guilt of their deaths.</p>\n\n<p>You can’t treat symptoms, you’ve got to treat the cause. We have got to be more concerned with COVID than we are about the economy and with loneliness. Don’t be like the Egyptians who beat the giant frog with the stick only to make the plague worse. Myopia, only being a being able to focus on a narrow plane, distorts the ability of people to see the real problem. Focus on fighting the pandemic by being civically responsible. Get vaccinated when you have the opportunity. Wear your mask when in public. 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