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A collection of Madlik Disruptive Torah on the Passover Seder
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Pour Out Your Wrath... or not
An analysis of the "Pour out Your Wrath" incantation to understand the propriety of it's inclusion at the most climactic moment of the Seder, and some suggestions for alternatively authentic replacements.
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Madlik Model Seder 2024
This year our Seder will be different from other years. For the first time in many of our lives it will be a Leil s\Shimurim,, a night of concern, uncertainty, fatigue and confusion. Let us follow the advice of the Rabbis to see ourselves as though we too are leaving our Egypt.
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The Kibbutz Haggadah - a visit to The Shittim Institute
Preparing for our Passover Seder we continue our exploration of the Kibbutz Haggadah with a visit to the Shittim Institute on kibbutz Beit Hashita in Northern Israel. Machon Shittim has the largest collection of Kibbutz Hagadot and an archive of close to a million texts which constitute Yahadut Yisraeli; Israeli Judaism.
Geoffrey Stern333 ViewsApril 14, 2024Haggadah,Judaism,Secular,Kibbutz
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Protest Haggadah cont.
We continue our exploration of the many faces of the Torah as reflected in the Kibbutz Haggadot written at the rebirth of the Jewish People in the Promised Land of Israel.
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Protest Haggadah
Parshat Vayikra - Vayikra is a call to action. In every generation we are admonished to imagine ourselves overthrowing the Pharaoh of our day.  Today we’ll survey haggadot that take this challenge and re-imagine the Haggadah for their time. We challenge our Israeli brothers and sisters to join this tradition and write today's Hagaddah.
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High Five
Parshat Beshalach - The Torah declares that the Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt "Hamushim" חֲמֻשִׁ֛ים , a word related to the number five. According to many commentaries this word implies that only some of the Israelites left Egypt and that they were armed and ready to fight. As divisions begin to surface within the ranks of the Israelites, we raise our hand to identify and call out the birth of Jewish sectarianism.
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First Fruits - First Prayers
Parshat Ki Tavo - As we approach the high prayer season we trace the evolution of the oldest prayer preserved in the Torah. The First Fruits Declaration, a once iconic prayer made by a farmer on Shavuot; the Harvest Festival. We see how this prayer was censored, repurposed and reinterpreted up until today and wonder what license it provides to us.
Geoffrey Stern686 ViewsSeptember 14, 2022First Fruits,Bikkurim,Haggadah,Prayer
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Nachson
Parshat Barmidbar - We visit with a man called Nachshon ben Aminadav with only a insignificant walk-on role in the text of the Torah but an iconic presence in Jewish religious and secular culture and mythology
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From Disgrace to Praise - Finding the Stranger in the Hagaddah
"You shall not oppress a stranger, ... having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt" and the motif of loving the stranger is not found in the Haggadah unless we follow the advise of the Mishnah and read the parsha until the end...
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Where has all the Hametz Gone? ClubHouse
Source Sheet for Discussion on ClubHouse March 12, 2021 4:00pm ET
Geoffrey Stern771 ViewsMarch 11, 2021
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Pesach Sheni - A Passover Makeover
Passover at a time of Corona: What the biblical provision for celebrating a second Passover, a month after the actual Passover teaches us about celebrating Passover under extenuating circumstances.
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Pour out Your Wrath on my Hametz
An analysis of the "Pour out Your Wrath" incantation to understand the propriety of it's inclusion at the most climactic moment of the Seder, and some suggestions for alternatively authentic replacements.
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Where has all the Hametz Gone?
Why does the prohibition of owning or benefiting from Hametz (leavened bread) not appear in the Haggadah? We explore different suggestions such as simple male chauvinism or the schism with Christianity and suggest some alternative texts which would address this glaring oversight.
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Opposing the Four Sons
Geoffrey Stern1078 ViewsApril 25, 2016
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Even You - אף אתה
Geoffrey Stern1815 ViewsApril 25, 2016
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