Rachatz -- Washing of the hands before the meal.

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Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more than the literal escape from slavery, more than an escape from a place of narrow straights, an obviously accurate physical description of Egypt, but metaphorically the leaving behind or “exodus” from a narrow place – the place that squeezes the life out of the human soul and body. Mitzrayim is viewed as an intrinsically constrictive state; a state where we are unable to express ourselves and be free, to be who we are as we seek to define ourselves to others.\n\nBesides the obvious homophone (words with diff erent meanings and diff erent spellings but the same pronunciation) of strait and straight, which parallels the Israelites liberation and escape from narrow straits, a place of oppression, our GLBT community often seeks escape from narrow-minded straights. We gather here today as the result of GLBT activists that struggled and fought for the rights and privileges we have today and from the support of countless GLBT allies in the straight community. Th ose allies who have stood by us personally in our lives and those who we will never know that have stood by countless other GLBTs in our community today and historically. These straight allies have escaped narrow mindedness and chose the path of justice and righteousness.\n\nWe spend a lot of time focusing on those outside our community that we feel hold us down and fail to recognize us as equal or worthy of equal rights, but at what point will we focus on what holds us back from within the GLBT community? 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Following the customary Seder order, four new segments have added ceremonious acts to the ritual nature of the traditionally well organized Passover Seder. First Eyru’ayim meaning “events” in Hebrew is a recounting of the GLBT historical timeline of struggles and accomplishments over the last century. Judaism teaches the importance of remembering the history, good and bad, of our people as well as our traditions, customs and culture. The Eyru’ayim brings us the opportunity to pass forward the history of this movement and to collectively learn from our history in much the same manner as in the Maggid, the telling of the ancient Exodus story.\nThe remaining three segments HaCarah, Chamutz and HaDerekh, meaning “The Recognition, Sour Vegetables and The Path” respectively in Hebrew revolve around the addition of a second Seder Plate. In recent years, the GLBT community has added an orange to the traditional Seder Plate. However, in this Haggadah, we fully integrate the GLBT Seder Plate, created and developed by Asher Gellis for Passover 2007. The GLBT Seder Plate and its symbolic components are integrated into this GLBT Haggadah and it is becomes an equal and integral part of our Seder experience alongside the traditional Seder Plate. \nThe orange is no longer just the addition of a foreign object to the traditional Seder Plate. Instead, a whole new GLBT Seder Plate, full of symbolism, was developed to sit proudly and equally next to the traditional Seder Plate, with its shank bone, egg, charoset, bitter herbs, greens and parsley. 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At this table, we collectively relive the saga as if we experienced the redemption ourselves. The light of Passover is the light of freedom; the hope of Passover is the hope of freedom. Our ancestors suffered in the darkness of slavery and dreamed of their liberty; some of our world neighbors must yet do the same. 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Before the Jewish people were known as Jewish or Jews – names that were derived from the Kingdom of Judah where they lived from 922 BCE until 587 BCE – they were known as either Israelites or Hebrews. “Hebrews,” “Israelites,” or the “Children of Israel” were names that collectively described the descendants of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob (also known as Israel). The Hebrews and Israelites eventually established and lived in both the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel.\n\nThe events of Passover written about in the Book of Exodus occurred at a time before the Jewish people were known as Jewish or Jews, and so we refer to the Jewish people as either Hebrews or Israelites in the Passover story that follows. Interestingly, the Hebrew word for Egypt is Mitzrayim, and means either “constriction” or “narrow straits.” This is in reference to the Israelites being in a state of constriction while toiling as slaves in the land of Goshen, an area of ancient Egypt. As slaves, the Israelites were building cities such as Pithom and Ra’amses which were used as supply centers for the Pharaohs of Egypt.\n\n\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 431, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Kadesh - Sanctification - קַדֵשׁ | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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This matzah which we break and set aside is a symbol of ou...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "We are about to take the middle matzah and divide it in half. This matzah which we break and set aside is a symbol of our unity with Jews throughout the world. We will not conclude our Seder until the missing piece (the Afikomen) is found and spiritually reunited. This is a reminder of the indestructible link which infuses us as a world family. \nIn unison we say…\n We cannot forget those who remain behind in any land of persecution, fearful of a growing public anti-Semitism or bigotry. To those still seeking liberty of life, to those striving courageously to build a better Jewish life in the country of their choice and to those of all humankind that strive to live a free and equal existence with all people of the world regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity and religion, we pledge our continued vigilance, support, and solidarity. \nLater, we will search for the hidden piece of matzah. In much the same way, we seek to reconnect with our neighbors throughout the world. Once having found the missing half, we will be able to continue our Seder. So, too, will the continued bonding of Diaspora Jewry with our homeland allow Israel to grow and blossom as the eternal core of our collective Jewish identity.\nIn unison, we say… \n We pray that they may live in peace, in a land at peace, with a world knowing war no more. We pray that the characteristics that make each human unique will be celebrated everywhere, with a world embracing diversity and knowing prejudice no more. \nFor the daily meal, there is one loaf of bread; but on the Sabbath there are two loaves as a reminder of the double portion of manna which fell on Friday for the Children of Israel as they traveled in the wilderness. (Exodus 16:22) In honor of Passover, a third matzah was added specifically for the Passover Seder experience.\n אֲפִיקוֹמָן \nWe break the middle matzah in half and place the larger piece of matzah, the Afikomen, in a napkin and hide it.\nThe door is opened as a sign of hospitality.\nThe matzot are uncovered and held up.\n Behold the matzah, bread of infliction, which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come and eat; all who are needy, come and celebrate the Passover with us. 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We have incorporated many new traditions into our own Seder for example, the orange on our Seder plate, or the creation of a whole second Seder plate. \nWhile discussing the ancient oppression in Egypt, we should recognize today’s oppression and the struggles for women’s rights, GLBT rights, racial equality and the elimination of unfair discrimination and the assurance of equal rights for all.\n \nThe Hateful Child\n Why must you have your own “Queer” (GLBT) Seder? \nJudaism is about incorporating each individual’s needs into community and cultural celebrations. Very often, traditional Seders are not sufficiently inclusive of Queer people’s needs. A Seder is a moment to reflect upon the painful lessons of long ago. What better time is there to discuss how these barbaric practices of hate and discrimination still thrive today?\nLet our Seder symbolize our (Queer) ability to overcome obstacles for a brighter future.\n \nThe Apathetic Child\n Why should I participate? \nIt is in one’s best interest to recognize the world around him or her or hir and to become involved in making a better future for everyone. The following quote about the Holocaust by a contemporary social activist (Martin Niemöller) illustrates this point.\n“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me.”\n \nThe Ignorant or Closeted Child\n Does not know how to ask or perhaps is too afraid… \nThis child must receive support and guidance from the community. A community that fosters support, tolerance, and understanding is vital to creating an environment where one can explore one’s own identity and understand others’.\nRabbi Gamliel (Grandson of the great Sage Hillel) taught; one who has not explained the following three symbols of the Seder has not fulfilled the Festival obligations:", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah - Eric Rosoff and Asher Gellis", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Children", "slug": "four-children" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 378, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Four Children - GLBT | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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So it is with the orange on the Seder plate.\n\nSpeaker 2: To begin with in the early 1980’s, while speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist Haggadah that suggested adding a crust of bread on the Seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians (there's as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the Seder plate). Heschel felt that to put bread on the Seder plate would be to accept that Jewish lesbians and gay men violate Judaism like chametz violates Passover. So, at her next Seder, she chose an orange as a symbol of inclusion of gays and lesbians and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community.\n\nSpeaker 3: Heschel offered the orange as a symbol of the fruitfulness for all Jews representing lesbians and gay men and their contributions as active members in Jewish life. 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.\n\nSpeaker 4: While lecturing, Heschel often mentioned her custom as one of many feminist rituals that have been developed in the last twenty years. She writes, \"Somehow, though, the typical patriarchal maneuver occurred: 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 erased. Isn't that precisely what's happened over the centuries to women's ideas?\"\n\nSpeaker 5: We place an orange on our Seder plate to symbolize the affirmation of lesbians and gay men, and to ensure we continue to cherish that growth of Judaism. Tonight all the excluded of our people – lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender, women, Jews by choice –and all who have felt left out – take their full and rightful place in shaping the future of our people and traditions by placing the orange on its own Seder plate. Our two Seder plates represent the duality of symbolism as we sit here at our GLBT Passover Seder; the Jewish traditions that we embrace since ancient days and our transformation as GLBT Jews into equal contributors to the growth of our people’s traditions.\n\nSpeaker 6: So why an orange? Because the orange carries within itself the seeds of its own rebirth. So have gay men and lesbians, bisexuals, women, Jews by choice within Judaism given birth to their own inclusion.\n\nSpeaker 7: Also because an orange provides both food and drink – it alone could sustain life for quite some time. So have queer Jews and others on the outskirts of the tradition had, at times, to sustain themselves until others understood and chose to welcome and include instead of turning away.\n\nSpeaker 8: This year we’ll do more than let the orange sit upon the Seder plate as a silent symbol, unconsumed. Tonight we will say the blessing and taste the sweetness of our orange and use it to add flavor to our Charoset to remind us that we are all a part of the mortar that binds our people. Take note how the flavor of our Charoset changes when we are able to taste the sweetness of integration.\n\nSpeaker 9: Tonight the orange is joined by the Coconut which represents those who are still locked inside their shell hiding from the world their inner beauty as an out and proud GLBT Jew. We notice that the shell is nearly impossible to crack with our bare hands and equally difficult for the beauty inside to escape on its own.\n\n Pass Coconut around the table \n\nSpeaker 10: We all know from experience that once a coconut is opened up the richness of its inner essence pours out almost with excitement of its long awaited liberation. Tonight we hold up our coconut and recognize the struggle of coming out as something most of us have experienced personally. I ask; should anyone like to try to open this coconut with their bare hands, do so now!\n\nSpeaker 10 continues: Otherwise we wait patiently for those who struggle silently within their shells to join us here, hopefully next year to celebrate our GLBT experience as free and out people.\n\n Peel orange and break into sliced segments to distribute \n\nFor both the orange and the coconut, we make a conscious decision to recognize those who have not fully been seen by everyone in our society. We take a piece of orange and imagine a piece of coconut and recite:\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַעֵץ\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha’Olam, bo’ray p’ree ha’etz \n\nBlessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who creates the fruit of the tree.\n\nChamutz - Eating of the Sour Foods\n\nTraditionally on Passover, all liquids which contain ingredients or flavors made from grain alcohol or vinegar (other than cider vinegar) are prohibited. Consequently, pickled foods are uncommon and undesirable for those observing the dietary guidelines of Passover. Equally undesirable in our world is the sour flavor of hatred, bigotry and homophobia. We take our sliced cucumber piece soaked in cider vinegar and lemon juice and recite:\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה\n\n Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha’Olam, bo’ray p’ree ha’adamah. \n\nBlessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who creates the fruit of the earth.\n\nFruit Salad\n\nIn recognition of our collective potential, when we all work together, able to recognize each others’ identities, we hold the fruit salad and inspect its components. Each piece of fruit is different from the other and regardless of which fruit it is, together the diversity of textures and flavors work together to make a collective entity that is greater than anyone piece. In an ideal world all people will be included in society as equal players able to contribute to society making it greater than before and able to give and receive freely as equal participants in our society.\n\nHaDerekh - The Path\n\nThe path that brought us to who we are today is full of flowers we can see and smell. The flowers here on our Seder plate represent the beauty within each of us on this path of life, but we must recognize the sticks and stones that lay on our path to making us who we are today. For the members of our community that have suffered the pain and anguish of physical assault for being different and for those that have suffered verbal abuse and harassment we bow our heads, close ours eyes and reflect on our own experiences and how different our lives might have been had we been in your shoes.\n\nThese sticks and stones have affected us and shaped our identities. Today we remember the many crossroads, vistas, cracks and divots along the way.\n\nWe take the sticks, stones and flowers and recite:\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהַכֹּל נִהְיָה בִּדבָרוֹ\n\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha’Olam, she-ha-kol ni-h’yeh bid-va-ro. \n\nBlessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, by whose word everything comes to be. \n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 365, "tags": [ { "tag": "Orange", "slug": "orange" }, { "tag": "Seder Plate", "slug": "seder-plate" }, { "tag": "LGBTQ", "slug": "lgbtq" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "GLBT Seder Plate In Depth - The Orange, The Coconut, Sour Foods, Fruit Salad, Flowers, Sticks & Stones | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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 flowers here on our Seder plat...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "The path that brought us to who we are today is full of flowers we can see and smell. The flowers here on our Seder plate represent the beauty within each of us on this path of life, but we must recognize the sticks and stones that lay on our path to making us who we are today. For the members of our community that have suffered the pain and anguish of physical assault for being different and for those that have suffered verbal abuse and harassment we bow our heads, close ours eyes and reflect on our own experiences and how different our lives might have been had we been in your shoes.\nThese sticks and stones have affected us and shaped our identities. Today we remember the many crossroads, vistas, cracks and divots along the way.\nWe take the sticks, stones and flowers and recite:\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם שֶׁהַכֹּל נִהְיָה בִּדבָרוֹ.\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha’Olam, she-ha-kol ni-h'yeh bid-va-ro. Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, by whose word everything comes to be. 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This matzah which we break and set aside i...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "We are about to take the middle matzah and divide it in half. This matzah which we break and set aside is a symbol of our unity with Jews throughout the world. We will not conclude our Seder until the missing piece (the Afikomen) is found and spiritually reunited. This is a reminder of the indestructible link which infuses us as a world family.\n\nIn unison we say…\n\nWe cannot forget those who remain behind in any land of persecution, fearful of a growing public anti-Semitism or bigotry. To those still seeking liberty of life, to those striving courageously to build a better Jewish life in the country of their choice and to those of all humankind that strive to live a free and equal existence with all people of the world regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity and religion, we pledge our continued vigilance, support, and solidarity.\n\nLater, we will search for the hidden piece of matzah . In much the same way, we seek to reconnect with our neighbors throughout the world. Once having found the missing half, we will be able to continue our Seder. So, too, will the continued bonding of Diaspora Jewry with our homeland allow Israel to grow and blossom as the eternal core of our collective Jewish identity.\n\nIn unison, we say…\n\nWe pray that they may live in peace, in a land at peace, with a world knowing war no more. We pray that the characteristics that make each human unique will be celebrated everywhere, with a world embracing diversity and knowing prejudice no more.\n\nFor the daily meal, there is one loaf of bread; but on the Sabbath there are two loaves as a reminder of the double portion of manna which fell on Friday for the Children of Israel as they traveled in the wilderness. (Exodus 16:22) In honor of Passover, a third matzah was added specifically for the Passover Seder experience.\n\nAfikomen - the middle matzah -אֲפִיקוֹמָן \n\nWe break the middle matzah in half and place the larger piece of matzah , the Afikomen, in a napkin and hide it.\n\nThe door is opened as a sign of hospitality.\n\nThe matzot are uncovered and held up.\n\nBehold the matzah , bread of infliction, which our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come and eat; all who are needy, come and celebrate the Passover with us.\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 173, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Yachatz – Breaking of the middle of the three Matzot – יַחַץ | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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At this season, when Mother Earth arrays herself anew, the human spirit rises, and we renew our faith in a world where freedom and justice will prevail. \n\nThe salt water, into which the Karpas is dipped, has been interpreted as salty tears, to remind us of the tears shed by the oppressed Israelites.\n\nWe recite:\n\nבָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה\n\nBaruch Atah Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha'Olam Borey P'ree Ha'Adamah.\n\nBlessed are You, Lord Our God, Ruler of the Universe, Who creates the fruit of the Earth. \n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 624, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Karpas - Eating the Green Vegetables | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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However, the Israelite midwives – Shifra and Puah – who were ordered by Pharaoh to be in charge of this task, feared the wrath of God and made sure that this did not happen. The Pharaoh then ordered his people to throw every male child born to an Israelite in the Nile River. Pharaoh was afraid that the Israelite males would grow up to become fighters against his regime. Pharaoh spared Israelite girls because he doubted they would become fighters against his regime, and he thought they would marry Egyptian men and adopt Egyptian values. But they did not!\n\nAs human beings today, we reflect with great distance on the hardship of our ancient ancestors but with great commitment we spend a significant amount of energy retelling and remembering their suffering and story of perseverance annually. As we make great efforts to celebrate and commemorate, we also turn and look at our recent history and the stories that surround our collective struggle to bring equality and respect to all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and any other divisible way we segment ourselves in our modern lives.\n\nThe GLBT community has made great strides in the last half century to receive recognition, acceptance and respect as human beings and within the Jewish community on spiritual and cultural fronts. We sit here today to celebrate, commemorate and further commit ourselves to making all people welcome and respected here at this table and everywhere we can in our everyday lives.\n\nAs GLBT community members, allies, friends and family of the GLBT community, our second Seder Plate symbolically represents our lives, our struggles and our progress here and now. \n\n\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 412, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Traditional Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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Tonight at our GLBT Passover Seder we incorporate a fifth question and answer. “What is unique or different about tonight’s seder, why tonight do we have Pride?” Pride is a very symbolic word in the GLBT community. We use this word often and tonight we have the opportunity to demonstrate how proud we are of our sexual orientation and gender identity.\n\n\n\nמַה נִשְׁתַּנָּה הַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מִכָׇּל־הַלֵּילוֹת\n\n\n\nשֶׁבְּכָׇל־הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין חָמֵץ וּמַצָּה\n\nהַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלּוֹ מַצָּה\n\n\n\nשֶׁבְּכָׇל־הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין שְׁאָר יְרָקוֹת\n\nהַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה מָרוֹר\n\n\n\nשֶׁבְּכָׇל־הַלֵּילוֹת אֵין אָנוּ מַטְבִּילִין אֲפִילוּ פַּעַם אֶחָת\n\nהַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה שְׁתֵּי פְעָמִים\n\n\n\nשֶׁבְּכָׇל־הַלֵּילוֹת אָנוּ אוֹכְלִין בֵּין יוֹשְׁבִין וּבֵין מְסֻבִּין\n\nהַלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה כֻּלָּנוּ מְסֻבִּין\n\n\n\n Mah nish-ta-na ha-lai-lah ha-zeh mi-kol ha-lei-lot! \nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot a-nu och-lin ha-metz u-matzah. Ha-lai-lah ha-zeh, ku-lo matzah? \nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot a-nu och-lin sh’ar y’ra-kot. Ha-lai-lah ha-zeh, maror? \nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot ein a-nu mat-bi-lin a-fi-lu pa-am e-hat. Ha-lai-lah ha-zeh, sh-tei fi-ah-mim? \nSheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot a-nu och-lin bayn yosh-vin ou-vein mis-u-bin. Ha-lai-lah ha-zeh, ku-la-nu mis- u-bin? \n\nWhy is this night different from all other nights?\n\nOn all other nights we eat either leavened bread or matzah. Why, on this night, do we eat only matzah? \nOn all other nights we eat all kinds of herbs. Why, on this night, do we eat only bitter herbs? \nOn all other nights we do not dip herbs. Why, on this night, do we dip them twice? \nOn all other nights we eat sitting or reclining on pillows. Why, on this night, do we eat only reclining upon pillows?\n\nThe fifth question:\n\n Sheh-beh-chol ha-lei-lot sed-er a-nu o-seem sed-er ma-sar-ti. Ha-lai-lah ha-zeh, ku-la-nu ga-im? \nOn all other Seder nights we do a traditional Seder. Why, on this night, do we have Pride?\n\nThe Five Answers\n\nSpeaker 1: We were slaves in Egypt. Our ancestor in flight from Egypt did not have time to let the dough rise. With not a moment to spare they snatched up the dough they had prepared and fled. But the hot sun beat as they carried the dough along with them and baked it into the flat unleavened bread we call matzah. \n\nSpeaker 2: The first time we dip our greens to taste the brine of enslavement. We also dip to remind ourselves of all life and growth, of earth and sea, which gives us sustenance and comes to life again in the springtime.\n\nSpeaker 3: The second time we dip the maror into the charoset. The charoset reminds us of the mortar that our ancestors mixed as slaves in Egypt. But our charoset is made of fruit and nuts, to show us that our ancestors were able to withstand the bitterness of slavery because it was sweetened by the hope of freedom.\n\nSpeaker 4: Slaves were not allowed to rest, not even while they ate. Since our ancestors were freed from slavery, we recline to remind ourselves that we, like our ancestors, can overcome bondage in our own time. We also recline to remind ourselves that rest and rejuvenation are vital to continuing our struggles. We should take pleasure in reclining, even as we share our difficult history.\n\nSpeaker 5: We are proud to be gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer and everything else under the rainbow. And all of us together here, add meaning to an age old Jewish tradition and for that we have pride. As a community we have come far, and while we are not done with our struggle, we should reflect proudly on our accomplishments as we celebrate here tonight at our GLBT Passover Seder.\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 422, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Five Questions | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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 basket was found by the Pharaoh’s daughter, who decided to raise the infant as her own son and named him Moses. She unknowingly hired Jochebed as a nurse to care for him, and Jochebed secretly taught Moses his Israelite heritage. At age 40, on a visit to see his fellow Israelites, Moses saw an Egyptian taskmaster beating an Israelite slave and in his rage, killed the Egyptian. Fearing for his life, Moses fled Egypt. He fled across the desert, for the roads were watched by Egyptian soldiers, and took refuge in Midian, an area in present-day northwestern Saudi Arabia along the eastern shores of the Red Sea.\n\nWhile in Midian, Moses met a Midianite priest named Jethro and became a shepherd for the next 40 years, eventually marrying one of Jethro’s daughters, Zipporah. Then, when Moses was about 80 years of age, God spoke to him from a burning bush and said that he and his brother Aaron were selected by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt to freedom. At first, Moses hesitated to take on such a huge task, but eventually Moses and his brother Aaron set about returning to Egypt, commencing what was to be the spectacular and dramatic events that are told in the story of Passover. It is said that the Israelites entered Egypt as a group of tribes and left Egypt as one nation. It has also been estimated that the Passover exodus population comprised about 3 million people, plus numerous flocks of sheep who all crossed over the border of Egypt to freedom in Canaan.\n\nUnder the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III in Egypt in 1476 BCE, the Israelite leader Moses (“Moshe” in Hebrew) – guided by God – led his people out of Egypt after a series of 10 plagues that were created by God and initiated by Moses. Prior to most of the plagues, Moses had warned the Pharaoh about each plague and that it would devastate his people, if he refused to let the Israelites go. After the first two plagues, the Pharaoh refused to let them go because his court magicians were able to re-create the same miracles, and so the Pharaoh thought: “This proves that the Israelite God is not stronger than I.” But when the third plague occurred, the Pharaoh’s magicians were not able to duplicate this miracle; however, that still did not change the Pharaoh’s mind about letting the Israelites leave Egypt. After each subsequent plague, the Pharaoh agreed to let the Israelites go, but the Pharaoh soon changed his mind and continued to hold the Israelites as slaves. Finally, after the 10th plague, the Pharaoh let the Israelites go for good.\n\nWhen the Pharaoh finally agreed to free the Israelite slaves, they left their homes so quickly that there wasn’t even time to bake their breads. So they packed the raw dough to take with them on their journey. As they fled through the desert they would quickly bake the dough in the hot sun into hard crackers called matzah. Today to commemorate this event, Jews eat matzah in place of bread during Passover.\n\nThough the Israelites were now free, their liberation was incomplete. The Pharaoh’s army chased them through the desert towards the Red Sea. When the Israelites reached the sea they were trapped, since the sea blocked their escape. When the Israelites saw the Egyptian army fast approaching toward them, they called out in despair to Moses. Fortunately, God intervened and commanded Moses to strike his staff on the waters of the Red Sea, creating a rift of land between the waves, enabling the Israelites to cross through the Red Sea to safety on the other side. Once the Israelites were safely across, God then commanded Moses to strike the waters of the Red Sea with his staff again, just as the Egyptian army followed them through the parted Red Sea. 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Nevertheless, we are grateful for God’s manifold gifts and we sing Dayenu!\n\nHad God brought us out of Egypt and not divided the sea for us, Dayenu!\n\nHad God divided the sea and not permitted us to cross on dry land, Dayenu!\n\nHad God kept us for forty years in the desert and not fed us with manna, Dayenu!\n\nHad God fed us with manna and not given us the Sabbath, Dayenu!\n\nHad God given us the Sabbath and not led us to Mount Sinai, Dayenu!\n\nHad God led us to Mount Sinai and not given us the Torah, Dayenu!\n\nHad God given us the Torah and not let us into the land of Israel, Dayenu!\n\nHad God led us into the land of Israel and not built for us the temple, Dayenu!\n\nHad God built for us the temple and not sent us prophets of truth, Dayenu!\n\nHad God sent us prophets of truth and not made us a holy people, Dayenu!\n\n I-looh ho-tzi-anu mih-mitz-rayim v’loh ah-sah bah-hem sheh-fah-team, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh ah-sah bah-hem sheh-fah-team, v’loh ah-sah beh-lo-hey-hem, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh ah-sah beh-lo-hey-hem, v’loh hah-rog eht beh-khor-hey-khem, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh hah-rog eht beh-khor-hey-khem, v’loh nah-tan lah-nu eht mah-moh-nom, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh nah-tan lah-nu eht mah-moh-nom, v’loh kah-rah lah-nu eht hah-yom, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh kah-rah lah-nu eht hah-yom, v’loh heh-eh-vey-rah-nu beh-toh-kho beh-kha-ra-vah, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh heh-eh-vey-rah-nu beh-toh-kho beh-kha-ra-vah, v’loh sheh-kah tsar-kay-nu beh-toh-kho, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh sheh-kah tsar-kay-nu beh-toh-kho, v’loh see-pek tsar-kay-nu bah-mid-bar ahr-bay-eem shanah, dayyeh- nu. \n\n I-looh see-pek tsar-kay-nu bah-mid-bar ahr-bay-eem shanah, v’loh hah-ekh-hih-lah-nu eht hah-mon, dayyeh- nu. \n\n I-looh hah-ekh-hih-lah-nu eht hah-mon, v’loh nah-tan lah-nu eht hah-shah-bot, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh nah-tan lah-nu eht hah-shah-bot, v’loh kehr-ba-nu lif-ney har see-nai, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh kehr-ba-nu lif-ney har see-nai, v’loh nah-tan lah-nu eht ha-tor-ah, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh nah-tan lah-nu eht ha-tor-ah, v’loh heekh-neeh-sah-nu leh-er-etz yis-rah-el, day-yeh-nu. \n\n I-looh heekh-neeh-sah-nu leh-er-etz yis-rah-el, v’loh bah-na lah-nu eht bayt ha-beh-kheeh-rah, day-yeh-nu. \n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 380, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "dayenu! it would have been enough | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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 seek to ensure that everyone is incl...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": " The Supportive/Open Minded Child \n\nHow do we make our GLBT Seder more inclusive? \n\nWe seek to ensure that everyone is included and that all of their needs are being met. For example, there is a movement to encourage the use of gender-neutral pronouns like ze for he/she and hir for him/her at inclusive Seders. We have incorporated many new traditions into our own Seder for example, the orange on our Seder plate, or the creation of a whole second Seder plate.\n\nWhile discussing the ancient oppression in Egypt, we should recognize today’s oppression and the struggles for women’s rights, GLBT rights, racial equality and the elimination of unfair discrimination and the assurance of equal rights for all.\n\n The Hateful Child \n\nWhy must you have your own “Queer” (GLBT) Seder? \n\nJudaism is about incorporating each individual’s needs into community and cultural celebrations. Very often, traditional Seders are not sufficiently inclusive of Queer people’s needs. A Seder is a moment to reflect upon the painful lessons of long ago. What better time is there to discuss how these barbaric practices of hate and discrimination still thrive today?\n\nLet our Seder symbolize our (Queer) ability to overcome obstacles for a brighter future.\n\n The Apathetic Child \n\nWhy should I participate?\n\nIt is in one’s best interest to recognize the world around him or her or hir and to become involved in making a better future for everyone. Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller, who was imprisoned by the Nazis, hauntingly reminds us of this imperative in his famous poem.\n\n\n“First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—\n\nbecause I was not a communist;\n\nThen they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—\n\nbecause I was not a socialist;\n\nThen they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—\n\nbecause I was not a trade unionist;\n\nThen they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—\n\nbecause I was not a Jew;\n\nThen they came for me—\n\nand there was no one left to speak out for me.”\n\n\n The Child That Doesn’t Know or Closeted Child \n\nDoes not know how to ask or perhaps is too afraid…\n\nThis child must receive support and guidance from the community. A community that fosters support, tolerance, inclusion, and understanding is vital to creating an environment where one can explore one’s own identity and understand others’.\n\nRabbi Gamliel (Grandson of the great Sage Hillel) taught; one who has not explained the following three symbols of the Seder has not fulfilled the Festival obligations:\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Greatest Hits Haggadah", "slug": "greatest-hits-haggadah", "author": "Haggadot" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "-- Four Children", "slug": "four-children" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 315, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "the four children | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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": "glbt-timeline", "title": "GLBT Timeline", "author": "JQ International", "author_handle": "jq-international", "author_initials": "JI", "covertext": "1939 Gad Beck, a gay Jewish teenager living in Hitler’s Germany joins the Jewish underground, smuggling food, arranging...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "1939 Gad Beck, a gay Jewish teenager living in Hitler’s Germany joins the Jewish underground, smuggling food, arranging housing and helping Jews escape from Berlin, often by bribing German officials.\n\n1955-1956 Poet Alan Ginsberg authors “Howl,” which contains gay sexual imagery.\n\n1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York City.\n\n1972 Two gay men and two lesbians decide to form their own synagogue in Los Angeles. Beth Chayim Chadashim holds its first service in July of 1972. In London, The Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group, JGLG is formed.\n\n1974 Beth Chayim Chadashim is chartered by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, making it not only the first gay and lesbian synagogue, but also the first gay religious organization of any kind to be officially recognized by an American national body.\n\n1974 David Goodstein buys the LA Advocate, which will become the largest circulating gay newspaper.\n\n1978 Rabbi Alan Bennett allows himself to be outed in the San Francisco Chronicle as the first gay rabbi in the United States.\n\n1980 World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations founded.\n\n1984 The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College faculty vote to admit gay and lesbian students.\n\n1989 Barnett “Barney” Frank comes out becoming the first openly gay Jewish member of the US Congress.\n\n1992 The Conservative law committee declared that Jewish law clearly prohibited commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples and the admission of openly gay people to rabbinical or cantorial schools.\n\n1993 Israel forbids discrimination against sexual orientation in its military.\n\n1997 the Jerusalem Open House is founded to serve the city’s LGBTQ population regardless of religion or nationality.\n\n1999 Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality.\n\n2000 The Central Conference of American Rabbis, which is part of the Jewish Reform movement, has agreed to sanction religious ceremonies for same-sex couples.\n\n2000 Hebrew Union College founds the Institute for Judaism & Sexual Orientation to challenge and eliminate homophobia and heterosexism and to transform the communities connected to the Reform movement into ones that are inclusive and welcoming of GLBT Jews.\n\n2001 Award-winning documentary Trembling Before God released, a cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.\n\n2002 Uzi Even is sworn in as the first openly gay member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.\n\n2002 Paul Colichman and Stephen P. Jarchow found HERE! America’s 1st GLBT dedicated TV network\n\n2003 Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion admits the first openly transgender rabbinical student in the world.\n\n2004 JQ International is born to serve the 20’s and 30’s demographic of the GLBT Jewish community with specific programming designed to fully integrate and reconcile the Jewish and GLBT identity among its young adult members. JAG, Judios Argentinos GLBT was born in Buenos Aires due to the interest of a group of friends and Rabbi Sergio Bergman who, together, addressed the lack of treatment of gay Jewish issues in the local Jewish Community.\n\n2006 The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, adopted policies giving gays and lesbians the chance to serve as clergy.\n\n2006 Israel’s High Court of Justice rules that two gay men married in Canada, as well as four other same-sex couples wedded abroad, should have their union recognized in Israel.\n\n2007 The Jewish Community Foundation recognizes the valuable work of JQ International and provides significant funding to advance JQ’s mission and create lesbian specific programming.\n\n2007 The Jewish Theological Seminary, the intellectual and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism, began accepting openly gay and lesbian candidates into its rabbinical and cantorial schools.\n\n2008 The Women’s Programming committee is launched by JQ International to better understand and serve America’s young adult lesbian Jewish population.\n\n2008 The 1st fully integrated GLBT Haggadah is created.\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 411, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "GLBT Timeline | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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Tonight we a...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "These events on our timeline reflect mostly accomplishments of the GLBT community in the face of adversity. Tonight we acknowledge and recognize the GLBT community’s endurance under ten additional plagues. For each of these plagues we continue our tradition of dipping our finger tip in our wine cups, and for each plague we place one drop of wine on our plates:\n\nBlood: The blood shed in the Nazi death camps and in Queer-bashings.\n\nLaughter: The laughter caused by our stereotyped representation in jokes and in the media.\n\nGuilt: The guilt we are told is inherent in our simple existence.\n\nShame: The shame we are made to feel when we share our lives and our bodies with someone of the same gender as ourselves.\n\nDespair: The despair we feel when we are told that we are evil and monstrous, that AIDS is God's judgment upon us.\n\nFear: The fear caused by a hostile society that would cast us out if it knew what we are.\n\nPain: The physical pain of being attacked by homophobes, and the mental pain of being rejected by family and community. Loneliness: The loneliness of thinking that we are the only one of our kind.\n\nDarkness: The darkness of our closets, and of where many of us are forced to spend our lives: the bars, the parks, the unsafe neighborhoods.\n\nSilence: The hollow silence of when we do not speak out in our own defense, the silence from one generation to another.\n\nIn unison we say:\n\nWe may not have individually felt each plague, but since they afflict our community on a global level, they afflict us as well. Let us not become complacent.\n\nAnd let us not become so involved with our own problems that we forget others who also suffer. The path out of Egypt is open to all who flee slavery and seek the Promised Land.\n\nTo cleanse ourselves and wash off these ten GLBT plagues that still exist in our world today we wash our hands and say the blessing.\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 359, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "GLBT Ten Plagues | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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Judaism calls upon us to serve God with all that we are and have.\n\nIn unison we say:\n\n<blockquote>\nEnjoying the Festival Meal As we enjoy our Festival meal, we pray that joy and contentment may soon be the lot of all God’s children, in a world of peace and freedom.\n</blockquote>\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Shulchan Oreich", "slug": "shulchan-oreich" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 352, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Shulhan Orech - The Meal | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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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Elijah the Prophet Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "Fill the cups with wine; open door; all rise...\n\nElijah the Prophet\n\n<blockquote>\nBehold, I will send you Elijah the prophet \nBefore the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.\n\n-Malachi 4:5\n</blockquote>\n\nElijah the prophet, Elijah the Tishbite, Elijah from Gilead, May he come quickly, In our days, with the Messiah son of David.\n\n Eh-lee-ya-hu ha-na-vee, Eh-lee-ya-hu ha-tish-bee, Eh-lee-ya-hu ha-gi-la-dee, Bim-hey-ra Ya-vo e-ley-nu Im-ma-shi-ach ben Da-vid. \n\nElijah the prophet, Elijah the Tishbite, Elijah from Gilead, May he come quickly, In our days, with the Messiah son of David.\n\ncup of wine for elijah\n\nLet us open the door and invite Elijah to enter and join with us as we drink the wine of our freedom\n\nEliyahu Ha-Navi (“Elijah the Prophet” in English) was a biblical prophet who lived in the 9th century BCE during the reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel in the Kingdom of Israel. His prophetic fervor and fierce defense of God in the face of pagan influences in comparison with all other Israelite biblical prophets earned him the honor of being the ‘guardian angel’ of the Israelites and subsequently, the Jewish people. Because he was considered the strongest defender of God, he was said to be the forerunner of the Messiah. In the Book of Malachi, Malachi, who was the last of the Israelite prophets, states that Elijah would reappear just before the coming of the Messianic Age. (Malachi 3:1)\n\na cup of water for miriam\n\nTonight we have both our traditional cup filled with wine for Elijah the Prophet, and a second one filled with water, for Miriam the Prohetess (Exodus 15:20).\n\nAccording to Rabbi Susan Schnur, Miriam is a central figure in the Passover drama. She stands guard loyally when her baby brother Moses is set floating on the Nile, and she arranges for a wet-nurse, Moses’ own mother, who gets paid by Pharaoh’s daughter for caretaking and living with her own child. Miriam leads the Israelites in singing and dancing (that most natural expression of religious joy) after they cross the Red Sea. And she dies by the kiss of God; the Angel of Death, we are told, has no power over her. After her death in the desert, the Israelites lose their most precious possession: water-and its then that Miriam’s grieving brother strikes the rock.\n\nThe Midrash teaches us that the water, which disappeared at Miriam’s death, came from a miraculous well. Created during twilight on the eve of the world’s first Sabbath, God gave the well to Miriam because of her holiness, and it was intended to accompany the Israelites in the desert throughout the span of her life. “Miriam’s Well,” as it was called, not only quenched thirst; it also cured body and soul. Both Miriam and her well were spiritual oases in the desert bedrock sources of nurturance and healing\n\nWe raise our wine glasses and say collectively:\n\n<blockquote>\nYou abound in blessings, God, creator of the universe, Who sustains us with living water. May we, like the children of Israel leaving Egypt, be guarded and nurtured and kept alive in the wilderness to understand that the journey itself holds the promise of redemption. \n\nAmen.\n</blockquote>\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 452, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Cup of Wine For Elijah, A Cup of Water for Miriam | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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/kadesh-151", "og:title": "Kadesh | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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": "https://assets.haggadot.com/clips/8963/conversions/jq-kadesh_2-cover.jpg" } } }, { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "how-did-israelites-wind-egypt-first-place", "title": "How Did the Israelites Wind Up in Egypt in the First Place? ", "author": "JQ International", "author_handle": "jq-international", "author_initials": "JI", "covertext": "According to the Book of Exodus, there was a famine in the land of Canaan (later known as Israel). Because of this famin...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "According to the Book of Exodus, there was a famine in the land of Canaan (later known as Israel). Because of this famine, the Hebrew patriarch Jacob traveled with his extended family of 70 to Egypt to both live inbetter conditions and be with his son Joseph. Joseph’s wisdom had impressed the Pharaoh of Egypt to the point that he was appointed Viceroy of Egypt, which was second in power only to the Pharaoh.\n\nThe next 430 years in Egypt saw the Israelites prosper and rapidly multiply to about 3 million people. These numbers were so great, the Pharaoh became nervous that the Israelites were becoming too many in number to control and thought they might side with Egypt’s enemies in case of war. The Pharaoh decreed that the Israelites should be enslaved to build cities and roads for him so that they would be too tired and also would not have time to have children. The Israelites were then confined to the land area of Goshen (Hebrew meaning of Goshen: “approaching” or “drawing near,” meaning the Israelites were possibly drawn closer to God during this period of time in Goshen, hence the essence of the Passover story occurred here), which was the fertile land that was east of the Nile delta and west of the border of Canaan.\n\nAs slaves, the lives of our ancestors were embittered and our Seder plate symbolically represents their lives under bondage.\n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 2026, "tags": [ { "tag": "History", "slug": "history" }, { "tag": "LGBTQ", "slug": "lgbtq" }, { "tag": "Maggid", "slug": "maggid" } ], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "How Did the Israelites Wind Up in Egypt in the First Place? | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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/how-did-israelites-wind-egypt-first-place", "og:title": "How Did the Israelites Wind Up in Egypt in the First Place? | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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": "hillel-sandwich-4", "title": "Hillel Sandwich", "author": "JQ International", "author_handle": "jq-international", "author_initials": "JI", "covertext": "To the Sage Hillel, eating Matzah and Maror together was not a trivial matter. To him, slavery and freedom were merged i...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/conversions/JQ_Primary_RGB-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/293759/JQ_Primary_RGB.png", "body": "To the Sage Hillel, eating Matzah and Maror together was not a trivial matter. To him, slavery and freedom were merged in one historical event. The bread of poverty became bread of freedom and was tasted together with Maror, so that one should know both the bitterness of slavery and the joy of freedom. In the time of freedom, we remember the bitterness of slavery; in time of oppression, we keep alive the hope of freedom. This is why Hillel’s practice of eating Matzah and Maror together has such an important message for us today.\n\nAnd today at our GLBT Seder, we recognize that oppression; inequality and bigotry still thrive as enemies of minorities and those that go against the flow of our society’s expectations, “norms” and barbaric mandates. The GLBT experience has changed dramatically in the last century and here today we review a timeline of events that brought us here to celebrate the ancient liberation from slavery in Egypt as told in Exodus but also to learn about the history of the GLBT cause. From the Nazi’s persecution of Jews, Homosexuals and many others in WWII, to the modern day global movements for GLBT Rights, Gay Marriage and current day anti-GLBT legislation, events have unfolded that attest to a determination to not just survive but flourish and have pride in our sexual orientation and gender identity. \n\n\n", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": { "title": "JQ International GLBT Haggadah", "slug": "jq-international-glbt-haggadah", "author": "JQ" }, "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": 517, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Hillel Sandwich | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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/hillel-sandwich-4", "og:title": "Hillel Sandwich | Passover haggadah by JQ International", "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": "traditional-seder-plate-symbols", "title": "Traditional Seder Plate Symbols", "author": "JQ International", "author_handle": "jq-international", "author_initials": "JI", "covertext": "The Paschal Lamb reminds us that the Holy One, praised be God, passed over the houses of our ancestors in Egypt. 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Haggadah Section: Rachtzah

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יי אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, אֲשֶׁר קִדְשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ עַל נְטִילַת יָדַיִם

Baruch Atah Adonai, Eloheynu Melech Ha’Olam
Asher Kidshanu Bemitzvotav Ve-Tzivanu Al Netilat Yadayim.

Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe,
who sanctifies us with commandments, and commands us to wash our hands

“Mitzrayim,” Hebrew for Egypt, literally means narrow straits. Judaic commentary has always viewed Mitzrayim as more than the literal escape from slavery, more than an escape from a place of narrow straights, an obviously accurate physical description of Egypt, but metaphorically the leaving behind or “exodus” from a narrow place – the place that squeezes the life out of the human soul and body. Mitzrayim is viewed as an intrinsically constrictive state; a state where we are unable to express ourselves and be free, to be who we are as we seek to define ourselves to others.

Besides the obvious homophone (words with diff erent meanings and diff erent spellings but the same pronunciation) of strait and straight, which parallels the Israelites liberation and escape from narrow straits, a place of oppression, our GLBT community often seeks escape from narrow-minded straights. We gather here today as the result of GLBT activists that struggled and fought for the rights and privileges we have today and from the support of countless GLBT allies in the straight community. Th ose allies who have stood by us personally in our lives and those who we will never know that have stood by countless other GLBTs in our community today and historically. These straight allies have escaped narrow mindedness and chose the path of justice and righteousness.

We spend a lot of time focusing on those outside our community that we feel hold us down and fail to recognize us as equal or worthy of equal rights, but at what point will we focus on what holds us back from within the GLBT community? How can we work from within our community to improve how we view ourselves, our souls and the value of our gender identity and sexual orientation?

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Table of contents

Introduction

The History of our Haggadah

JQ Haggadah Table of Contents

The GLBT Seder Plate

GLBT Timeline

-- Exodus Story

The Story of Exodus

Kadesh

Kadesh - Sanctification - קַדֵשׁ

The First Cup - Welcome The Festival

Urchatz

Urchatz - Washing of the Hands

Karpas

Karpas - Appetizer

Karpas - Eating the Green Vegetables

Yachatz

The Traditional Seder Plate

Yachatz – Breaking of the middle of the three Matzot – יַחַץ

How Did the Israelites Wind Up in Egypt in the First Place?

-- Four Questions

The Five Questions

-- Four Children

The Four Children - GLBT

-- Ten Plagues

GLBT Ten Plagues

The Second Cup - The Ten Plagues

-- Cup #2 & Dayenu

dayenu! it would have been enough

Rachtzah

Rachatz -- Washing of the hands before the meal.

Traditional Seder Plate Symbols

Motzi-Matzah

Motzi u'Matzah - Blessing Before The Meal And Over The Matzah

Maror

Maror - Eating of the Bitter Herbs

Koreich

Hillel Sandwich

Commentary / Readings

GLBT Seder Plate In Depth - The Orange, The Coconut, Sour Foods, Fruit Salad, Flowers, Sticks & Stones

Shulchan Oreich

Shulhan Orech - The Meal

Tzafun

Find & Eat the Afikomen!

Bareich

The Third Cup - Redemption

Cup of Wine For Elijah, A Cup of Water for Miriam

Miriam's Song

Hallel

The Fourth Cup - Cup of Praise

Nirtzah

Shortened Translation of Echad Mi Yode'a (Who Knows One)

Closing

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