{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "yehuda-amichai-poem-passover", "title": "Yehuda Amichai Poem \"Passover\"", "author": "Monica Osborne", "author_handle": "monica-osborne", "author_initials": "MO", "covertext": "The Eleventh and Twelfth Commandments: Don't Change! Change By Yehuda Amichai My father was a god and did not know it. H...", "user_image": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/114151/conversions/profile10104814934025548-thumb.jpg", "user_image_original": "https://assets.haggadot.com/users/114151/profile10104814934025548", "body": "<p>The Eleventh and Twelfth Commandments: Don't Change! Change<br />\nBy Yehuda Amichai</p>\n\n<p>My father was a god and did not know it.<br />\nHe gave me The Ten Commandments neither in thunder nor in furry;<br />\nneither in fire nor in cloud<br />\nBut rather in gentleness and love.</p>\n\n<p>And he added caresses and kind words and he added “I beg You,” and “please.”<br />\nAnd he sang “keep” and “remember” the Shabbat In a single melody<br />\nAnd he pleaded and cried quietly between one utterance and the next ,<br />\n“Do not take the name of God in vain,” do not take it, not in vain, I beg you,<br />\n“Do not bear false witness against your neighbor.”<br />\nAnd he hugged me tightly and whispered in my ear “Do not steal. Do not commit adultery. Do not murder.”<br />\nAnd he put the palms of his open hands On my head wit the Yom Kippur blessing. “Honor, love, in order that your days might be long On the earth.”</p>\n\n<p>And my father’s voice was white like the hair on his head.</p>\n\n<p>Later on he turned his face to me one last time</p>\n\n<p>Like on the day when he died in my arms and said I want to add Two to the Ten Commandments:<br />\nThe eleventh commandment – “Thou shall not change.”<br />\nAnd the twelfth commandment – “Thou must surely change.”<br />\nSo said my father and then he turned from me and walked off Disappearing into his strange distances.</p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Yehuda Amichai", "featured": 1, "featuredIn": { "title": "Jews Around the World", "slug": "jews-around-world", "author": "Haggadot" }, "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": 562, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "Yehuda Amichai Poem \"Passover\" | Passover haggadah by Monica Osborne", "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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