My People's Passover Haggadah Vol 2

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My People’s Passover Haggadah
Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries

In two volumes, this empowering resource for the spiritual revival of our times enables us to find deeper meaning in one of Judaism’s most beloved traditions, the Passover Seder. Rich Haggadah commentary adds layer upon layer of new insight to the age-old celebration of the journey from slavery to freedom—and makes its power accessible to all.

This diverse and exciting Passover resource features the traditional Haggadah Hebrew text with a new translation designed to let you know exactly what the Haggadah says. Introductory essays help you understand the historical roots of Passover, the development of the Haggadah, and how to make sense out of texts and customs that evolved from ancient times.

Framed with beautifully designed Talmud-style pages, My People’s Passover Haggadah features commentaries by scholars from all denominations of Judaism. You are treated to insights by experts in such fields as the Haggadah’s history; its biblical roots; its confrontation with modernity; and its relationship to rabbinic midrash and Jewish law, feminism, Chasidism, theology, and kabbalah.

No other resource provides such a wide-ranging exploration of the Haggadah, a reservoir of inspiration and information for creating meaningful Seders every year.

“The Haggadah is a book not just of the Jewish People, but of ordinary Jewish people. It is a book we all own, handle, store at home, and spill wine upon! Pick up a Siddur, and you have the history of our People writ large; pick up a Haggadah, and you have the same—but also the chronicle of Jewish life writ small: the story of families and friends whose Seders have become their very own local cultural legacy.... My People’s Passover Haggadah is for each and every person looking to enrich their annual experience of Passover in their own unique way.”

9. A LONG ANSWER: A MIDRASH ON "MY FATHER WAS A WANDERING ARAMEAN …" 10. THE ROLE OF GOD A. “GOD BROUGHT US OUT OF EGYPT—NOT BY AN ANGEL …” B. GOD'S PUNISHING MIGHT: THE PLAGUES IN EGYPT AND AT THE SEA C. GOD’S SAVING MIGHT: DAYYENU 11. SUMMING IT ALL UP … A. SYMBOLS OF THE NIGHT: PASSOVER, MATZAH, BITTER HERBS B. THE ESSENCE OF THE NIGHT: “IN EACH AND EVERY GENERATION …” C. … TO PRAISE AND REDEMPTION 12. “PRAISE”—HALLEL, PART ONE, PSALMS 113–114 A. AN INTRODUCTION TO HALLEL B. PSALM 113 C. PSALM 114 13. REDEMPTION: BLESSING AND MEAL A. THE BLESSING OF REDEMPTION AND THE SECOND CUP B. BLESSINGS OVER THE MEAL: THE SECOND WASHING (ROCHTSAH); MOTSI; MATZAH; MAROR; AND HILLEL’S SANDWICH (KOREKH). C. THE MEAL D. CODA TO THE MEAL: THE “HIDDEN” AFIKOMAN (TSAFUN); GRACE AFTER MEALS (BAREKH); AND THE THIRD CUP D. YEARNINGS AND HOPES 14. MEDIEVAL ADDITIONS A. WELCOMING ELIJAH. B. GOD’S TRIUMPH OVER EVIL: “POUR OUT YOUR WRATH …”. 15. “PRAISE”—HALLEL, PART TWO, PSALMS 115–118, 136 A. PSALMS 115–118 AND CONCLUSION B. PSALM 136 (THE GREAT HALLEL) AND CONCLUSION 16. FORMAL CONCLUSION A. THE FOURTH CUP AND FINAL BLESSING B. PRAYER FOR “ACCEPTANCE” OF THE SEDER (NIRTSAH) C. A MESSIANIC HOPE: “NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM!” 17. FOUR SEDER SONGS A. KI LO NA’EH, KI LO YA’EH (“FOR IT FITS AND BEFITS HIM”) B. ADIR HU (“HE IS MIGHTY”) C. ECHAD MI YODE’A (“WHO KNOWS ONE?”) D. CHAD GADYA (“ONE KID”) APPENDIX I Two Early Seders: Mishnah and Tosefta APPENDIX II A Haggadah from the Cairo Genizah Notes List of Abbreviations Glossary Annotated Select Bibliography About the Contributors Index

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Haggadah of Pesach
• Passover
• Judaism
• Religion
• Haggada
• Pessa'h

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781580236195
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

COMMENTATORS:
DAVID ARNOW: The World of Midrash
CAROLE B. BALIN: Modern Haggadot
MARC BRETTLER: Our Biblical Heritage
NEIL GILLMAN: Theologically Speaking
ALYSSA GRAY: Medieval Commentators
ARTHUR GREEN: Personal Spirituality
JOEL M. HOFFMAN: Translating the Haggadah
LAWRENCE A. HOFFMAN: History of the Haggadah
LAWRENCE KUSHNER AND NEHEMIA POLEN: Chasidic Voices
DANIEL LANDES: The Halakhah of the Seder
WENDY I. ZIERLER: Feminist Voices
9.A LONG ANSWER: A MIDRASH ON MY FATHER WAS A WANDERING ARAMEAN …
10. THE ROLE OF GOD
A. GOD BROUGHT US OUT OF EGYPT-NOT BY AN ANGEL …
B. GOD S PUNISHING MIGHT: THE PLAGUES IN EGYPT AND AT THE SEA
C. GOD S SAVING MIGHT: DAYYENU
11. SUMMING IT ALL UP …
A. SYMBOLS OF THE NIGHT: PASSOVER, MATZAH, BITTER HERBS
B. THE ESSENCE OF THE NIGHT: IN EACH AND EVERY GENERATION …
C. … TO PRAISE AND REDEMPTION
12. PRAISE - HALLEL , PART ONE, PSALMS 113-114
A. AN INTRODUCTION TO HALLEL
B. PSALM 113
C. PSALM 114
13. REDEMPTION: BLESSING AND MEAL
A. THE BLESSING OF REDEMPTION AND THE SECOND CUP
B. BLESSINGS OVER THE MEAL: THE SECOND WASHING (ROCHTSAH) ; MOTSI ; MATZAH; MAROR ; AND HILLEL S SANDWICH ( KOREKH )
C. THE MEAL
D. CODA TO THE MEAL: THE HIDDEN AFIKOMAN (TSAFUN) ; GRACE AFTER MEALS (BAREKH) ; AND THE THIRD CUP
D. YEARNINGS AND HOPES
14. MEDIEVAL ADDITIONS
A. WELCOMING ELIJAH
B. GOD S TRIUMPH OVER EVIL: POUR OUT YOUR WRATH …
15. PRAISE - HALLEL , PART TWO, PSALMS 115-118, 136
A. PSALMS 115-118 AND CONCLUSION
B. PSALM 136 (THE GREAT HALLEL ) AND CONCLUSION
16. FORMAL CONCLUSION
A. THE FOURTH CUP AND FINAL BLESSING
B. PRAYER FOR ACCEPTANCE OF THE SEDER (NIRTSAH)
C. A MESSIANIC HOPE: NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM!
17. FOUR SEDER SONGS
A. KI LO NA EH, KI LO YA EH ( FOR IT FITS AND BEFITS HIM )
B. ADIR HU ( HE IS MIGHTY )
C. ECHAD MI YODE A ( WHO KNOWS ONE? )
D. CHAD GADYA ( ONE KID )
APPENDIX I Two Early Seders: Mishnah and Tosefta
APPENDIX II A Haggadah from the Cairo Genizah
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Annotated Select Bibliography
About the Contributors
List of Searchable Terms
Copyright
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK
Lawrence A. Hoffman and David Arnow
PART I CELEBRATING PASSOVER: CONTEXTUAL REFLECTIONS
1. WHAT IS THE HAGGADAH ANYWAY?
Lawrence A. Hoffman
2. PASSOVER IN THE BIBLE AND BEFORE
David Arnow
3. PASSOVER FOR THE EARLY RABBIS: FIXED AND FREE
David Arnow
4. THIS BREAD: CHRISTIANITY AND THE SEDER
Lawrence A. Hoffman
5. THE SEDER PLATE: THE WORLD ON A DISH
David Arnow
6. PEOPLEHOOD WITH PURPOSE: THE AMERICAN SEDER AND CHANGING JEWISH IDENTITY
Lawrence A. Hoffman
7. WHERE HAVE ALL THE WOMEN GONE? FEMINIST QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HAGGADAH
Wendy I. Zierler
8. MOVING THROUGH THE MOVEMENTS: AMERICAN DENOMINATIONS AND THEIR HAGGADOT
Carole B. Balin
9. GOOD TO THE LAST DROP : THE PROLIFERATION OF THE MAXWELL HOUSE HAGGADAH
Carole B. Balin
PART II THE PASSOVER HAGGADAH
A. SETTING THE STAGE
1. PREPARING THE HOME
A. THE CHECKING OF LEAVEN (B DIKAT CHAMETS)
B. PERMISSION TO COOK FOR SHABBAT: THE MIXING OF FOODS (ERUV TAVSHILIN)
C. ARRANGING THE SEDER PLATE
2. THE ORDER OF THE SEDER: KADESH URCHATS …
3. BEGINNING THE SEDER
A. LIGHTING CANDLES
B. DEFINING SACRED TIME ( KIDDUSH AND THE FIRST CUP)
C. DISTINGUISHING TIMES OF HOLINESS (HAVDALAH)
D. GRATITUDE FOR BEING HERE (SHEHECHEYANU)
E. THE FIRST WASHING (URCHATS) AND DIPPING KARPAS
F. BREAKING THE MATZAH (YACHATS) AND RESERVING THE AFIKOMAN
G. BREAD OF AFFLICTION, HA LACHMA ANYA : BEGIN MAGGID ( TELLING )
4. QUESTIONS OF THE NIGHT: MAH NISHTANAH, WHY IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERENT?
B. FROM ENSLAVEMENT …
5.A SHORT ANSWER: ENSLAVEMENT IS PHYSICAL-AVADIM HAYYINU, WE WERE SLAVES
6. HOW WE TELL THE TALE
A. EVERYONE TELLS THE STORY: EVEN IF ALL OF US WERE SMART …
B. TELLING AT LENGTH: THE FIVE SAGES SEDER
C. TELLING AT NIGHT? ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE …
D. TELLING THE NEXT GENERATION: THE FOUR CHILDREN
E. TELLING AT THE PROPER TIME: AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH?
7.A SHORT ANSWER: ENSLAVEMENT IS SPIRITUAL-WE WORSHIPED IDOLS
8. PROMISES-PAST AND PRESENT
A. THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM: BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO KEEPS HIS PROMISE …
B. THE PROMISE TO US: THIS KEPT OUR ANCESTORS AND US GOING …
Notes
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
About the Contributors
List of Searchable Terms



9. A LONG ANSWER: A MIDRASH ON MY FATHER WAS A WANDERING ARAMEAN …
1 Note well what Laban the Aramean wanted to do to our father Jacob, for Pharaoh s decree only concerned the males, while Laban wanted to uproot everyone, as it says, 2 My father was a wandering Aramean. He descended to Egypt and lived there in small numbers, and there he became a large, mighty, and populous nation.
3 Descended to Egypt -this means compelled by the word of God.
4 Lived there -this teaches that our ancestor Jacob didn t go down to Egypt to plant himself there, but rather to live there, as it says, 5 They told Pharaoh, ‘We have only come to live in this land because there is no pasture for your servants flocks and because the famine in the Land of Canaan is severe. So now, sir, let your servants stay in the Land of Goshen.
6 In small numbers -as it says, Numbering seventy people, your ancestors went down to Egypt, and now Adonai your God has made you populous like the stars of the sky.
7 Became a nation -this teaches that Israel was distinct there.
8 Large, mighty -as it says, The children of Israel were fertile and multiplied and became very, very populous and mighty, and the land was filled with them.
9 Populous -as it says, I made your population like wildflowers, and you were populous and large, and you grew into a woman. Your breasts grew and your hair sprouted, yet you remained naked and bare. 10 I passed by you and I saw you wallowing in your blood. And I said to you, live in your blood. And I said to you, live in your blood.
11 The Egyptians were evil toward us and afflicted us and imposed harsh labor upon us.
12 The Egyptians were evil toward us -as it says, Let us be clever about them lest they multiply and in the event of a war they be added to those who hate us and, having waged war, leave this land.
13 Afflicted us -as it says, They put taskmasters over them to afflict them in their suffering. They built garrison cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.
14 Imposed harsh labor upon us -as it says, With severity the Egyptians made the children of Israel work.
15 We cried out to Adonai our ancestors God, and Adonai heard our voice and saw our misery and our work and our distress.
16 We cried out to Adonai our ancestors God -as it says, After a long time, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of their work and cried out, and their plea rose to God because of the work.
17 Adonai heard our voice -as it says, God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
18 Saw our misery -this is the separation from worldly ways, as it says, God saw the children of Israel and God knew.
19 And our work -this is the boys, as it says, You shall throw every boy who is born into the Nile, while you shall let every girl live.
20 And our distress -this is the persecution, as it says, I also saw the distress that the Egyptians inflict upon them.











SIGNPOST: A LONG ANSWER
DAVID ARNOW (THE WORLD OF MIDRASH)
CAROLE B. BALIN (MODERN HAGGADOT)
MARC BRETTLER (OUR BIBLICAL HERITAGE)
NEIL GILLMAN (THEOLOGICALLY SPEAKING)
ALYSSA GRAY (MEDIEVAL COMMENTATORS)
ARTHUR GREEN (PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY)
JOEL M. HOFFMAN (TRANSLATION)
LAWRENCE A. HOFFMAN (HISTORY)
WENDY I. ZIERLER (FEMINIST VOICES)


SIGNPOST: A LONG ANSWER
WE HAVE RECEIVED TWO BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE CENTRAL QUESTION OF WHAT THIS NIGHT IS ALL ABOUT: ENSLAVEMENT MAY BE PHYSICAL OR SPIRITUAL (SEE MY PEOPLE S PASSOVER HAGGADAH , VOLUME 1). WE NOW PLUNGE INTO FULFILLING AN ANCIENT INJUNCTION TO TELL THE STORY OF OUR ENSLAVEMENT AND FREEDOM THROUGH A COMPLEX MIDRASH ON DEUTERONOMY 26:5–8. WE ARE CHALLENGED TO FIND ITS ORIGINAL INTENT AND WHAT IT MIGHT MEAN FOR US TODAY.
ARNOW (THE WORLD OF MIDRASH)
1 "Laban wanted to uproot everyone" The Haggadah s particular animus toward Laban reflects the physical and spiritual threat he posed to the Jewish future. The Sifre on Deuteronomy ( Piska 301) notes that Laban is considered as if he had destroyed [Jacob]. According to Pirkei D rabbi Eliezer , Laban took all the men of his city, mighty men, and pursued [Jacob], seeking to slay him. 1 And although Laban did not in fact harm Jacob-they made a treaty with one another-a talmudic tradition holds that God counted his evil thoughts as if they had been carried out (PT Peah 5a, 1:16:b). Had Laban destroyed Jacob and his family, it would indeed have ended the Jewish story. On the other hand, had Jacob returned to live with Laban, the outcome may have been the termination of Jacob s spiritual legacy through the adoption of his father-in-law s idolatry.
3 "Compelled by the word of God" The Bible itself hints at Jacob s discomfort about going to Egypt. Why else would God suddenly appear to reassure him: Fear not to go down to Egypt … (Gen. 46:3). According to an ancient legend, without God s intervention, it would ha