{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "radish-seder-plate-1", "title": "A Radish on the Seder Plate", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "The word “radical” comes from the Latin word, radix, for “root.” Etymologically, the suggestion is that for an idea, per...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The word “radical” comes from the Latin word<em>, radix,</em> for “root.” Etymologically, the suggestion is that for an idea, person, or thing to be “radical,” it must have the effect of uprooting the status quo altogether, therefore changing it fully. </p><p>This same Latin root gives us the word “radish,” which of course is a literal root.</p><p>The radish on our Seder plate tonight symbolizes our radical potential as Jews to change the world. During this Seder, we have advanced the millennia-old story of our liberation from Egypt. But we have also discussed, intermittently through the evening, the ways in which our Jewishness can inspire us to change the status quo.</p><p>We have meditated on the world around us—both what it is and what it can be. So as we say the following blessing over the radish, we are really blessing ourselves and our people…to go forth and change the world.</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong> <em>Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam borei p'ri ha'adamah</em>. 
</strong></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who creates the fruit of the ground. </p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Everyone eats a piece of radish.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Seder for Radicals", "featured": 0, "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": 465, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Radish on the Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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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And you are able to make changes! Hasten to do good works!</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "A Night to Remember", "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": 235, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Ha(l)ves and Have Nots | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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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Though they are thought of as four separate questions, they are really just subsets of the single question: what makes tonight so special? Eventually the Haggadah gives us some answers about that, in the retelling of the Pesach story.</p><p>But the Haggadah neglects to ask: what makes <em>us</em> so special? Not us, Jews in the abstract. Us, those of us here tonight! We accept that tonight is particular but do we ever think about the ways in which we are particular ourselves for sitting around this table? For being able to come to the table in the first place? Each of us tonight bears particular privileges that many others don't have, preventing them from doing so.</p><p><strong>The Haggadah leads us to ask this question, but won't ask it for us: who is not here? And why?</strong></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Original", "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": 264, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Night of Questions | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/night-questions", "og:title": "A Night of Questions | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "og: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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Because in the Jubilee Year, each half-century, debts are annulled and land is restored.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Lawrence Bush", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": null, "slug": null } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 211, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. I | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/why-be-radically-jewish-pt-i", "og:title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. 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Because Betty Friedan (born Bettye Naomi Goldstein) wrote <em>The Feminine Mystique</em> and awakened millions of women to the call of liberation.</p><p>10. Because nearly half of the white Freedom Riders who went south in 1964-65 were Jewish.</p><p>11. Because Abbie Hoffman dropped dollars bills on the New York Stock Exchange floor in 1967 to expose the system for what it is.</p><p>12. Because Gay Pride Day was launched by a Jewish bisexual woman named Brenda Howard.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Lawrence Bush", "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": 216, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. 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Because the Sabbath is there to remind us what it means to be human: to relax, to read, to stroll, to make love.14....", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>13. Because the Sabbath is there to remind us what it means to be human: to relax, to read, to stroll, to make love.</p><p>14. Because we have to reconcile with people before reconciling with \"G-d\" at Yom Kippur.</p><p>15. Because we are told to go camping and see the night sky at Sukes.</p><p>16. Because Chanukkah reminds us to spread light, even at the darkest times.</p><p>17. Because we get to honor Harriet Tubman and sing \"Go Down Moses\" every Passover.</p><p>18. Because we are told to share our wealth before each celebration.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Lawrence Bush", "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": 204, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. III | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/why-be-radically-jewish-pt-iii", "og:title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. 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Because we are warned to \"be cautious regarding the ruling power.\"</p><p>23. Because the main responsibility, we are told, is not to study, but to do.</p><p>24. Because if there is no bread, there is no Torah, and if there is no Torah, there is no bread.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Lawrence Bush", "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": 231, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. IV | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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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Because Shalom Cholavsky, 27, led a group that set fire to the Nieswiez Ghetto in 1942 and escaped to the forests of Byelorussia, where they fought that Nazis for two years.</p><p>27. Because Anne Frank believed in human goodness after two years in hiding.</p><p>28. Because Rosa Robota and three other young women smuggled explosives into Auschwitz to fuel the Sonderkommando uprising of 1944.</p><p>29. Because Israel's Yad Vashem has recognized and honored more than 24,000 non-Jews for their heroism in rescuing Jews.</p><p>30. Because our history rightfully leads to the understanding that racist thinking is the path to murder.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Lawrence Bush", "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": 213, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. V | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/why-be-radically-jewish-pt-v", "og:title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. 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Because Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen carried us over the rainbow.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Adapted from Lawrence Bush", "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": 213, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. VI | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/why-be-radically-jewish-pt-vi", "og:title": "Why Be Radically Jewish? Pt. 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His wickedness is that he is indifferent to the fate of the Jewish people. \"What is this to you?\" he asks. \"To <em>you</em>, \" not \"To me.\" What he is saying, in effect, is \"The fate of my people is not my concern.\" Here is a vexing demand sometimes made of young Jews by their elders in America today: You should worry about Jews more than you worry about non-Jews. In the shtetls of the Pale, or the ghettos of Morocco, this was not such a difficult thing to ask, because who had a choice? Jews were sequestered from the world, so why should they have cared about its problems? But in America, this unique Diaspora nation, a place that comprehensively accepts, even embraces, its Jewish citizens, this becomes a more troubling proposition. Which is why a war rages in the souls of American Jews, the war between the universal and the particular. Is it not a form of chauvinism to declare that the fate of Ethiopian Jews is an overriding concern of the American Jewish community, but what happens to non-Jewish Ethiopians is only a marginal concern?</p><p>This question arises anew in each successive generation. Those Jews who were college students in the 1980s experienced this dilemma rather directly. Two liberation movements then preoccupied many campuses: the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and the fight to free Soviet Jewry. Both were righteous causes. But one benefited Jews directly, and the other didn't. Many Jews made the struggle against white South Africa their cause. This was to their everlasting credit, as Jews and as moral beings. But what would have happened if no American Jew had made the cause of Soviet Jewry his own? Here is the same question put another way: Was it parochial or chauvinistic of the nations of sub-Saharan African to fight apartheid with a singular focus?</p><p>There are so many challenges embedded in Judaism, but perhaps this is the greatest one of all: How do we balance our faith's demand to care especially for our fellow Jews, and care especially for the entire world, all at the same time?</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The New American Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 213, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Wicked Son Is Not Wicked | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "seder-radicals-0", "title": "Seder For Radicals", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "radical |ˈradikəl|adjective1 (esp. of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; fa...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>radical |<span>ˈ</span>radik<span>ə</span>l|</p><p>adjective</p><p><strong>1 </strong>(esp. of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough: <em> a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework</em>. </p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "University of Michigan Hillel", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": null, "slug": null } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 223, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Seder For Radicals | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/seder-radicals-0", "og:title": "Seder For Radicals | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "welcome-seder", "title": "Welcome to the Seder", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "The method of asking and then answering rhetorical questions is a traditional Jewish form of pedagogy, and it’s the tool...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The method of asking and then answering rhetorical questions is a traditional Jewish form of pedagogy, and it’s the tool the Haggadah uses to tell its story. We ask why tonight is different from all other nights, and then we learn the mythical history of our people by hearing the answer.</p><p>In this Seder for Radicals, we will ask many questions—both traditional, and new—and we will answer to the best of our abilities. Some questions, of course, we won’t come close to answering entirely. And we can’t let that fact discourage us. In the words of Rabbi Tarfon, “it is not necessary that you complete the work, but neither are you permitted to desist from it.”</p><p>Sprinkled periodically throughout this Seder, we will read answers to the question: Why be radically Jewish? These answers serve to remind us that in ways apart from mere Hebrew catchphrases, our history and our traditions command us to repair the world. As Jews, we have an imperative to change the status quo. And thus, act radically. Though we will read some answers to this question, we are here to meditate on how to ask and answer our own questions along this theme:</p><p>What better time than Passover, when we reflect on our own history in bondage, to ask who is not yet free?</p><p>And though we will not complete the work—certainly not tonight—we will fulfill a special duty by continuing along a journey that started in Egypt, and has brought each of us here tonight.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Seder for Radicals", "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": 238, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Welcome to the Seder | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/welcome-seder", "og:title": "Welcome to the Seder | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "plague-song-2", "title": "The Plague Song", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "(To the tune of \"This Old Man\")The first plague, number one,All through Egypt blood did run, Chorus:With a knap sack on...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>(To the tune of \"This Old Man\")</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The first plague, number one,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">All through Egypt blood did run,</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus:</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>With a knap sack on the back</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Forty years they roam,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The Israelites are going home.</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The second plague, number two,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>A billion rongs will surely do</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The third plague, number three,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>From dirt and vermin they all flee</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The fourth plague, number four,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Endless flies through Egypt pour</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The fifth plague, number five,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Murrain leave not a beast alive</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The sixth plague, number six,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Blain is spread as animals mix</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The seventh plague, number seven,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Balls of hail come down from heaven</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The eighth plague, number eight,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Swarms of locusts lie in wait</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The nine plague, number nine,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>In Pharoah’s country no lights shine</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>The tenth plague, number ten,</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Strikes Egyptian first born men</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Pasman-Green Family Haggadah", "featured": 0, "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": 245, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "The Plague Song | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/plague-song-2", "og:title": "The Plague Song | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "note-language", "title": "A Note on Language", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "As we have already discussed, since illiteracy affects a third of the world, being able to read this Haggadah is a deep...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>As we have already discussed, since illiteracy affects a third of the world, being able to read this Haggadah is a deep privilege. But in some ways the language we are able to speak is a privilege in and of itself, spoken or in text. As much as language allows us to communicate and understand one another, it has the power to drive a wedge between us as well. It is often used to separate peoples, classes, social identities, and the list goes on. Tonight, we must be aware of the ways in which the language we use includes and excludes specific groups from sharing in our tradition.</p><p>This Haggadah has made a deliberate choice in many sections to prefer English to the traditional Hebrew—in an attempt at including as many people as possible.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Seder for Radicals", "featured": 0, "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": 218, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Note on Language | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/note-language", "og:title": "A Note on Language | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "note-language-0", "title": "A Note on Language", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "As we have already discussed, since illiteracy affects a third of the world, being able to read this Haggadah is a deep...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>As we have already discussed, since illiteracy affects a third of the world, being able to read this Haggadah is a deep privilege. But in some ways the language we are able to speak is a privilege in and of itself, spoken or in text. As much as language allows us to communicate and understand one another, it has the power to drive a wedge between us as well. It is often used to separate peoples, classes, social identities, and the list goes on. Tonight, we must be aware of the ways in which the language we use includes and excludes specific groups from sharing in our tradition.</p><p>This Haggadah has made a deliberate choice in many sections to prefer English to the traditional Hebrew—in an attempt at including as many people as possible. As we ponder language as a means of including or excluding, ask yourself: what are some other ways in which I may unknowingly include or exclude certain individuals or groups?</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Seder for Radicals", "featured": 0, "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": 219, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Note on Language | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/note-language-0", "og:title": "A Note on Language | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "next-year-jerusalem-2", "title": "Next Year in Jerusalem?", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "The seder ends in an outburst of longing, and it is a longing for home. No matter where we are, the chances are that we...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The seder ends in an outburst of longing, and it is a longing for home. No matter where we are, the chances are that we feel displaced. No strangers to estrangement, we carry a homesickness from place to place.</p><p>Somewhere on earth will feel like home. We will know it down to its homeliest details, and that knowledge will seep through and calm our restlessness, for what was that restlessness but a dream of coming home?</p><p>Next year in Jerusalem! we sing, from our places scattered around the globe, including the city of Jerusalem itself. And we will sing it year after year, no matter how history disposes of us, just so long as we are still around. Proust wrote, \"There is no paradise but paradise lost.\" The Jerusalem with which we end the seder is a place in Proustian dreamscape, only designated not by the ache of loss but the ache of longing.</p><p>And if Jerusalem is a metaphor, so, too, is Egypt. Egypt is here and now, using the most persuasive of means--the fact of reality itself--to make us sink into its presence and forget the boundaries we had meant to cross.</p><p>The Haggadah's tale is about a family who swell into something more. Voluntary strangers, they became involuntary slaves and finally head out into the unknown, driven by their longing to go home. None of them would ever reach that home, not even Moses.</p><p>Next year in Jerusalem, we say, and the words send us out into the night with our desires stoked, our contentment cooled.</p><p>We are slaves without our longings.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "The New American Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "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": 228, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Next Year in Jerusalem? | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/next-year-jerusalem-2", "og:title": "Next Year in Jerusalem? | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "extra-passover-songs", "title": "Extra Passover Songs", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "Our Passover Things! (to the tune of \"Our favorite things\" from \"The Sound of Music\") Cleaning and cooking and so many d...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span>Our Passover Things!</span></strong><span><br /> </span><span>(to the tune of \"Our favorite things\" from \"The Sound of Music\")</span><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Cleaning and cooking and so many dishes <br /> Out with the hametz, no pasta, no knishes <br /> Fish that's gefilted, horseradish that stings <br /> These are a few of our Passover things</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> </span><span>Matzah and karpas and chopped up haroset </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Matzah and karpas and chopped up haroset <br /> Shankbones and kiddish and yiddish neuroses <br /> Tante who kvetches and uncle who sings <br /> These are a few of our Passover things.</span><span> </span><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Motzi and maror and trouble with Pharoahs <br /> Famines and locusts and slaves with wheelbarrows <br /> Matzoh balls floating and eggshell that clings <br /> These are a few of our Passover things.</span><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>When the plagues strike <br /> When the lice bite <br /> when we're feeling sad <br /> We simply remember our Passover things <br /> And then we don't feel ... so bad ...</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span>Just a Tad of Charoset!</span></strong><span><br /> </span><span>(to the tune of \"Just a spoon full of sugar\")</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus: <br /> Just a tad of charoset helps the bitter herbs go down, <br /> The bitter herbs go down, the bitter herbs go down. <br /> Just a tad of charoset helps the bitter herbs go down, <br /> In the most disguising way.</span><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Oh, back in Egypt long ago, <br /> The Jews were slaves under Pharoh. <br /> They sweat and toiled and labored through the day. <br /> So when we gather pesach night, <br /> We do what we think right. <br /> Maror, we chew, <br /> To feel what they went through.</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> So after years of slavery <br /> They saw no chance of being free. <br /> Their suffering was the only life they knew. <br /> But baby Moses grew up tall, <br /> And said he'd save them all. <br /> He did, and yet, <br /> We swear we won't forget. <br /> That......</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span> While the maror is being passed, <br /> We all refill our water glass, <br /> Preparing for the taste that turns us red. <br /> Although maror seems full of minuses, <br /> It sure does clear our sinuses. <br /> But what's to do? <br /> It's hard to be a Jew!!!</span><span> </span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Chorus</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><span>The Ballad of the Four Sons!</span></strong><span><br /> </span><span>(to the tune of \"Clementine\")</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Said the father to his children, <br /> \"At the seder you will dine, <br /> You will eat your fill of matzoh, <br /> You will drink four cups of wine.\" <br /> Now this father had no daughters, <br /> But his sons they numbered four. <br /> One was wise and one was wicked, <br /> One was simple and a bore. <br /> And the fourth was sweet and winsome, <br /> he was young and he was small. <br /> While his brothers asked the questions <br /> he could scarcely speak at all. <br /> Said the wise one to his father <br /> \"Would you please explain the laws? <br /> Of the customs of the seder <br /> Will you please explain the cause?\" <br /> And the father proudly answered, <br /> \"As our fathers ate in speed, <br /> Ate the paschal lamb 'ere midnight <br /> And from slavery were freed.\" <br /> So we follow their example <br /> And 'ere midnight must complete <br /> All the seder and we should not <br /> After 12 remain to eat. <br /> Then did sneer the son so wicked <br /> \"What does all this mean to you?\" <br /> And the father's voice was bitter <br /> As his grief and anger grew.</span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>\"If you yourself don't consider <br /> As son of Israel, <br /> Then for you this has no meaning <br /> You could be a slave as well.\" <br /> Then the simple son said simply <br /> \"What is this,\" and quietly <br /> The good father told his offspring <br /> \"We were freed from slavery.\" <br /> But the youngest son was silent <br /> For he could not ask at all. <br /> His bright eyes were bright with wonder <br /> As his father told him all. <br /> My dear children, heed the lesson <br /> and remember evermore <br /> What the father told his children <br /> Told his sons that numbered four.</span><span> </span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Pasman-Green Family Haggadah", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Songs", "slug": "songs" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 232, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Extra Passover Songs | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/extra-passover-songs", "og:title": "Extra Passover Songs | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "radish-seder-plate", "title": "A Radish on the Seder Plate", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "The word “radical” comes from the Latin word, radix, for “root.” Etymologically, the suggestion is that for an idea, per...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The word “radical” comes from the Latin word<em>, radix,</em> for “root.” Etymologically, the suggestion is that for an idea, person, or thing to be “radical,” it must have the effect of uprooting the status quo altogether, therefore changing it fully. </p><p>This same Latin root gives us the word “radish,” which of course is a literal root.</p><p>The radish on our Seder plate tonight symbolizes our radical potential as Jews to change the world. During this Seder, we have advanced the millennia-old story of our liberation from Egypt. But we have also discussed, intermittently through the evening, the ways in which our Jewishness can inspire us to change the status quo.</p><p>We have now meditated on the world around us—both what it is and what it can be. So as we say the following blessing over the radish, we are really blessing ourselves and our people…to go forth and change the world.</p><p><span></span></p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"> <em>Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam borei p'ri ha'adamah</em>. 
</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who creates the fruit of the ground. </p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Everyone eats a piece of radish.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Seder for Radicals", "featured": 0, "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": 219, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Radish on the Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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/radish-seder-plate", "og:title": "A Radish on the Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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": "radish-seder-plate-0", "title": "A Radish on the Seder Plate", "author": "Matthew Green", "author_handle": "mlassergreen", "author_initials": "MG", "covertext": "The word “radical” comes from the Latin word, radix, for “root.” Etymologically, the suggestion is that for an idea, per...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p>The word “radical” comes from the Latin word<em>, radix,</em> for “root.” Etymologically, the suggestion is that for an idea, person, or thing to be “radical,” it must have the effect of uprooting the status quo altogether, therefore changing it fully. </p><p>This same Latin root gives us the word “radish,” which of course is a literal root.</p><p>The radish on our Seder plate tonight symbolizes our radical potential as Jews to change the world. During this Seder, we have advanced the millennia-old story of our liberation from Egypt. But we have also discussed, intermittently through the evening, the ways in which our Jewishness can inspire us to change the status quo.</p><p>We have now meditated on the world around us—both what it is and what it can be. So as we say the following blessing over the radish, we are really blessing ourselves and our people…to go forth and change the world.</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\"> <em>Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha'olam borei p'ri ha'adamah</em>. 
</p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe, who creates the fruit of the ground. </p><p style=\"text-align:center;\">Everyone eats a piece of radish.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Seder for Radicals", "featured": 0, "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": 217, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Radish on the Seder Plate | Passover haggadah by Matthew Green", "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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Do you live in a place where some people work two or three jobs to feed their children, and others don't even have a single, poorly paid job? Do you live in a community in which the rich are fabulously rich, and the poor humiliated and desperate? Do you live among people who worship the golden calves of obsessive acquisitiveness, among people whose children are blessed by material abundance and cursed by spiritual impoverishment? Do you live in a place in which some people are more equal than others?</p><p>In America, the unemployment rate for African-Americans is nearly twice as high as it is for whites. Black people are five times as likely to be incarcerated as whites. Infant mortality in the black community is twice as high as it is among whites. America is a golden land, absolutely, and for Jews, it has been an ark of refuge. But it has not yet fulfilled its promise.</p><p>The same is true for that other Promised Land. 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