Happy Pesach!

✡️ #Haggadah #Seder #Passover #Pesach #HappyPassover #Passover2025

It’s almost Passover! Do you need a radical anti-capitalist anti-Zionist haggadah for your seder? I’ve got you covered comrade! It’s the “SoCal Haggadah,” newly revised, updated, and ready to rock your world. I have PDFs both for printing as a pretty booklet or for reading from a screen/tablet. If the prospect of the usual “God did everything. He chose us and just us. Let’s all praise Him” spiel has you down in these dark and fascist times (which, you know, of course it does) then this is the haggadah for you and your co-conspirators. Have a meal together, read the SoCal Haggadah, and go start a revolution!

https://j-dv.com/zines/socalhaggadah.html

#Passover #haggadah #antizionist #AntiZionistJews #AntiFascism #zine

It is a positive commandment of the Torah to relate the miracles and wonders wrought for our ancestors in Egypt on the night of the 15th of Nissan, as it is written (Exodus 13:3): "Remember this day when you left Egypt," similar to the obligation (Exodus 20:8): "Remember the Sabbath day."

How do we know this is on the night of the 15th? This is taught by the words (Exodus 13:8): "And you shall tell your child on that day, saying: 'It is because of this..." which indicate it is to be done at the time when matzah and marror are placed before you.

This mitzvah applies even when one does not have a child to tell. Even wise sages who know it well are obligated to tell about the Exodus from Egypt. Whoever elaborates upon the events which transpired is worthy of praise.

(Mishneh Torah, Chametz and Matzah 7:1)
#Maimonides #MishnehTorah #Passover #Pesach #Exodus #Seder #Haggadah

I've been working on an alternative haggadah for Passover, but that of courses raises the question: “Why is this haggadah different from all the others? …or, why make yet another one?”

Magic. The answer is magic. But to explain a bit more I wrote an afterword for the haggadah that I thought would be interesting to share on its own.

https://j-dv.com/blog/post/why-is-this-haggadah-different-from-all-the-others

#haggadah #passover #magic

Happy Pesach!

✡️ #Haggadah #Seder #Passover #Pesach #HappyPassover #Passover2024

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The holiday of Pesakh/Passover is called Zeman Heruteinu—the Season of Our Liberation. We remember and re-enact the Exodus from Egyptian slavery, and we are prompted to rededicate ourselves to working for the liberation of all people today and for our own liberation from the personal constraints we each face. We offer three new approaches to this process, and have collected past Evolve essays about Pesakh by:

Dr. Chanda Prescott
https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/what-to-the-black-jew-is-passover/

Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/why-is-this-passover-seder-different-from-all-other-passover-seders/

Max Buckler
https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/reconstructing-the-wise-child/

Rabbi Vivie Mayer
https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/purim-pesakh-a-purim-drash/

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein z"l
https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/celebrating-the-seder-with-the-earth-in-mind-the-promise-of-the-land-a-passover-haggadah/

Dr. Shoshana Fershtman
https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/the-wellsprings-of-renewal/

Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein
https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/torahcaseforreparations/

These words continue to speak to us. Read more about Evolve here:

https://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Passover #Pesach #Haggadah #JewishHistory #Seder

A Free Download!
(Or you can buy a print copy.)

The Kveller Haggadah: A Seder for Curious Kids (and their Grownups) Paperback – March 10, 2020 by Kveller (Author), Elissa Strauss (Author), Gabrielle Birkner (Author), Grace Yagel (Illustrator)

"...This beautiful and colorful text includes commentaries from Ruby Namdar, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, Rabbi Sari Laufer, Rabbi Shais Rishon and Rabbi Ruti Regan. It also features insights from renowned memory researchers, who help us understand how memory works and the connections between memory & food (after all, the seder plate is full of "memory foods").

This haggadah is both rich & accessible, kid-friendly without overlooking the dramatic tensions at the center of the Passover story..."

https://www.kveller.com/haggadah/

There's also a Spanish version of both the Download and the print copy.

#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JFedi #Passover #Pesach #Haggadah