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🡄 (Previous day) :: 📅 17 March 2021 📅 20 March 2021 :: (Next day) 🡆 📅 Resources published on 18 March 2021 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? Pearl Benisch… remembers Passover in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in the spring of 1945, just days before her liberation. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., haggadah supplements, סגולות segulot, שפוך חמתך shfokh ḥamatekha, סימנים simanim, symbolic foods, the Holocaust, השואה the Shoah Contributor(s): Why is this coffee different from all other coffees? Because Maxwell House coffee is a deeply spiritual representation of the Diaspora experience. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., acrostic, diaspora, haggadah supplements, Maxwell House coffee, mnemonic, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, symbolic foods Contributor(s): An old Persian tradition involves hitting each other with leeks during the recitation of Dayenu. Nowadays this is replaced with a gentle tap with a scallion for safety reasons. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): Rabbi Yosi son of Rabbi Yehuda says: “Three good sustainers arose for Israel. These are they: Moses and Aaron and Miriam. And three good gifts were given because of them, and these are they: well, and cloud, and manna. The well was given in merit of Miriam… Miriam died and the well ceased, as it is written (Numbers 20:1-2) “And Miriam died there,” and it says right afterwards “and there was no water for the community.” Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., haggadah supplements, In the merit of Miriam, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, water, water is life, water protectors Contributor(s): In the early 1980s, while speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist haggadah that suggested adding a crust of bread on the seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians (suggesting that there’s as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the seder plate). Heschel felt that to put bread on the seder plate would be to accept that Jewish lesbians and gay men violate Judaism like ḥamets violates Passover. So, at her next seder, she chose an orange as a symbol of inclusion of gays and lesbians and others who are marginalized within the Jewish community. She offered the orange as a symbol of the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians and gay men are contributing and active members of Jewish life. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., haggadah supplements, inclusion, inclusion and exclusion, LGBTQIA+, oranges, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, symbolic foods Contributor(s): A millennium-old tradition, recorded by Rav Sherira Gaon in 10th-century Iraq. He would always have three cooked foods on the seder plate. The egg, a product of the birds of the sky, a sign of renewal and rebirth, represented Moses, the law, the heavens, and the revelational aspects of faith. The shankbone, a product of the animals of the field, a commemoration of the original Pesaḥ sacrifice, represented Aaron, the priesthood, the earth, and the ritual aspects of faith. And the fish, representing the constant flowing nature of water, represented Miriam, prophecy, the waters, and the spiritual aspects of faith. Categories: Tags: 10th century C.E., 47th century A.M., Geonic prayers, haggadah supplements, miriam's fish, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, symbolic foods Contributor(s): The color of beets, which never leaves our hands, symbolizes the teachings of the sages, which are still passed down. And the redness symbolizes the blood of the covenant, still there after all these years. Categories: Tags: 3rd century C.E., 41st century A.M., beets, haggadah supplements, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, symbolic foods Contributor(s): | ||
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