“ The real question is not why do we keep Passover, but how do we continue to keep הַ גָדָה לׁשֶ ּפֶסַ ח Passover year after year and keep it from becoming The Family stultified! How can we be privileged to plan it so that, as Rabbi Participation Abraham Isaac Kook said, The old may become new and Haggadah the new may become holy.” IRA STEINGROOT A DIFFERENT NIGHT By Noam Zion and David Dishon “ One must make changes on this night, so the children will notice and ask: Why is this night different? ” The complete Passover text with MAIMONIDES educational innovations to involve everyone at the seder — adult and child alike. “ Only the lesson which is enjoyed can be learned well.” JUDAH HANASI THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE JERUSALEM, ISRAEL 1 The Search for Chametz Bernard Picart (Holland, 1725) 2 Foreword: A Haggadah to Grow With Dear Reader, We at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem have been With this Haggadah the seder may be customized to match researching the Haggadah and its educational principles for each family’s needs and religious commitments. One can a decade. At last we venture beyond scholarly essays to an choose a short seder (an hour) or a long seder following experimental Haggadah which is designed to enable the various trails through the wealth of options provided. Every contemporary Jew to lead an interactive and intellectually year you can focus on different aspects of the seder — stimulating seder. While holding to the traditional text of the preserving what you love and experimenting with new ideas. seder, we have discovered that much can be done to make (The Leader’s Guide, a separate companion volume, provides the seder more responsive to contemporary needs practical advice as well as background essays for preparing the and simultaneously truer to the spirit of the Rabbis Passover evening most appropriate for you.) as educators. Rabbinic tradition mandates the kind of This is a Haggadah to grow with from Pesach to innovations that appear throughout this Haggadah. Pesach; a resource to enable each seder to be different than Our Haggadah facilitates a seder that is as an educational its predecessor. With A Different Night your seder will maximize dialogue between parent and child, leader and participant. the active participation of everyone. A Different Night offers stories and readings as well as On this night all of us must feel that we experienced the commentaries and activities that can fuel a dynamic evening Exodus and that the holiday of freedom belongs to us of storytelling and discussion, dramatics and singing. The personally. illustrations drawn from medieval and modern artists serve Noam Sachs Zion and David Dishon as visual commentaries that evoke discussion. We have assembled many artistic portrayals of the Four Children to P.S. Please share with us your responses to this Haggadah. encourage comparison and debate. True to the spirit of the Haggadah we have sought to be eclectic, building on the creative artistry and intellectual The Shalom Hartman Institute, founded by the Jewish insight of others: Maimonides, Ben Gurion and I.B. Singer, Ben philosopher Rabbi David Hartman and headed by Rabbi Shahn and Marc Chagall, gifted children’s writers, cartoonists Donniel Hartman, is an educational, learning and research and philosophers. center serving all sectors of the Jewish world that wish to Everyone — whether adult or child — can feel at home enrich their dialogue with Jewish texts and to have it impact in this inclusive, pluralistic Haggadah. Transliterations on their lives. The Hartman Institute is devoted to pluralist, and contemporary translations make the traditional Hebrew non-denominational study of Judaism and it includes men and accessible to all. women from all varieties of Jewish faith and practice. 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Toll-free: 877-308-4175 Revised 2015 Email: [email protected] 3 48 הַּכָל ּמַ רְּבֶ ה לְ סַ ּפֵ ר • Storytelling: Multiple Options Table of Contents 56 נֶּכְ גֶ ד אַ רְ ּבָ ָע ה ּבָ נִ י ם • The Four Children The Art of the Four Children 62 Rav’s Story: Spiritual Slavery: Introduction “Our ancestors were idol worshippers” 72 The User’s Guide 6 ּתְמִ חִ ָ ּל ה ע וֹ בְ דֵ י ֲע ב וֹ דָ ה ָ ז רָ ה • Guide for the Perplexed Seder Leader 9 76 וְ הִ י א שֶׁ ָע מְ דָ ה • The Promise The Night Before the Seder 12 78 אֲ רַ מִ י א ֹ בֵ ד אָ בִ י - Arami Oved Avi: The Symposium ּבְדִיקַת חָמֵץ • The Tale of the Wandering Jew in Torah and Midrash Searching for Chametz The Morning Before the Seder 14 92 ֶע שֶׂ ר מַ ּכ וֹ ת • Ten Plagues ּבִ ע וּ ר חָ מֵ ץ • Burning Chametz 104 ּדַ ֵ י נ וּ • Dayeinu 16 הַ דְ לָ קַ ת נֵ רוֹת • Candle Lighting 110 סַּפֶ חמַ ּצָ ה וּ מָ ר וֹ ר • Explaining Pesach, Matza, Maror 18 ּבִ רְ ּכַ ת יְ לָ דִ ים • Rabban Gamliel explains the story Blessing the Children behind the symbolic foods 20 סִ י מָ ֵ נ י הַ סֵ דֶ ר • Signposts for the Seder 114 לּבְכָ ּדוֹר וָ דוֹר • ”In Every Generation“ Identifying personally with the Exodus First Cup: Kiddush 116 הַ ּלֵ ל • Hallel: Psalms 113-114 Songs of praise for redemption 22 קַ ּדֵ שׁ • Kadesh: Sanctifying Time ”Remember the Day of Your Exodus from Egypt“ 122 ּגָ אַ ל ִ י שְׂ רָ אֵ ל • The Cup of Redemption Concluding the storytelling by drinking (Ex. 13:3) ּכ וֹ ס שֵׁ ִ נ י • the Second Cup 28 וּרְ חַ ץ • Urchatz: Handwashing 30 רְּכַ ּפַ ס • Karpas: Dipping Hors D’Oeuvres Third Cup: The Family Meal Yachatz: Breaking the Middle Matza • 32 ַ י חַ ץ 124 רַ חְ צָ ה • Washing Hands Second Cup: Storytelling 124 מוֹ צִ י א מַ ּצָ ה • Eating Matza 126 מָ ר וֹ ר • Eating Maror 34 מַ ּגִ י ד • Maggid: Telling the Story 128 ּכוֹרֵ ְך • Hillel’s Sandwich 36 הָ א לַ חְ מָ א ַענְ יָ א • Matza, Maror and Charoset Ha Lachma Anya The Story of Matza: ”This is the bread of poverty and persecution“ 129 שֻׁל ְ ןחַ ע וֹ רֵ ְך • Shulchan Orech: Dinner 40 מַ הנִ שְׁ ּתַ נָ ה • Ma Nishtana: Four Questions 130 צָ פ וּ ן • Eating the Afikoman :The Rabbis as Storytellers 132 רֵּבָ ְך • Birkat Hamazon Blessings after the Meal Shmuel’s Story: Political Slavery: 44 ֲע בָ דִ י ם הָ ִ י י נ וּ • ”The Cup of Blessing 137 “We were slaves ּכ וֹ ס שְׁ ִ ל י שִׁ י • Drinking the Third Cup 4 A Friendly Warning Elijah’s Cup Do not try to do it all in one night. This Haggadah offers 138 ּכוֹס אֵ לִ ּיָ הוּ • resources for many years of Pesach seders. Pick and choose Pouring the Cup of Elijah the readings and activities that are most appropriate for the 142 שְׁפ ֹ ְך חֲ מָ תְ ָך • ”Pour Out Your Wrath“ seder at hand. (See the user’s guide on the following pages.) Fourth Cup: Psalms 144 הַ ּלֵ ל • Dedications and Sponsors The Festival Hallel We wish to thank our many sponsors whose faith in the Psalms 115-118 147 ּלֵהַ להַ ּגָ ד וֹ ל • educational power of this Haggadah expressed itself in The Great Hallel generous grants for its development. Psalm 136 148 ּכּבִרְ ַ ת הַ ֵ ּל ל • Eunice & Ernest Benchell The Moskowitz Family The Blessings after Hallel 149 ּכוֹס רְ בִ ִיעי • Dr. Emile & Gail Bendit Karen & Neil Moss Drinking the Fourth Cup Marilyn, Ellen & David Henry & Bella Muller Counting the Omer • 150 סְ פִ ירַ ת הָ ע ֹ מֶ ר Bierman Charles & Ilana Horowitz Brenda Brown-Lipitz Ratner Deborah & Gerald Charnoff Bernice Rosenthal Concluding Poems and Folksongs Gary & Margey Cheses Leonard & Lainy LeBow 152 ּפִ ּי וּ טִ י ם • Ann & Ari Deshe Sachs Medieval Poems Leonard Fein 154 אַ ּדִ י ר ה וּ א • Marc Saltzberg Adeer Hu Rina & Samuel Frankel 155 אֶ חָ ד מִ י י וֹ דֵ ע • ?Jeffrey & Jodie Schein Who Knows One ַ Jean & Jerry Friedman Robert & Janice Just One Little Kid • 160 חַ ד ּגַ דְ ָ י א Mia & Joe Buchwald Gelles Schottenstein 165 ִ נרְ צָ ה • Susie & Michael Gelman Steven & Jill Schottenstein Nirtza: The Concluding Poem 165 לְ שָׁ נָ ה הַ ּבָ אָ ה • Herb & Dee Dee Glimcher Alvin Cramer Segal Next Year in Jerusalem Gary & Cari Gross Kathy Levin Shapiro & Dr. Merle & Anna Hillman Sandy Shapiro LeRoy E. & Rebecca Children & grandchildren of Appendix Hoffberger Dr. Hyman Shapiro Holly & Bradley Kastan Chuck & Joyce Shenk Permissions 170 Elie Katz Charna Sherman Notes and References 171 The Kayne and Kane Families Mark Silverstein Philip & Phyllis Margolius Carol & Norman Traeger NEW Storyteller’s Supplement The children of Harvey The Wexner Heritage Fellows of Phoenix & Lyn Meyerhoff Contemporary Seder Stories S 1-33 Bonnie & David Milenthal Gordon & Carol Zacks 5 The User’s Guide to ‘A Different Night’ may offer extensive hors d’oeuvres. Along with thekarpas — ‘ Only the lesson which is the traditional dipping of parsley, celery or potato in salt water — serve more substantive appetizers. This was the original enjoyed can be learned well’ Rabbinic custom. The stomach which gets its due early in the seder liberates the mind to engage in the main course of the seder: telling the story and discussing freedom and slavery.