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This is an archive of prayers, songs, and other individual works relevant to the fifth course of the seder for Pesaḥ (Passover): Magid, the core of the Haggadah containing its midrash aggadah.

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כוונה לסדר פסח | A Kavvanah for Human Rights for the Passover Seder, from T’ruah (2011)

We are hereby ready to fulfill our obligation of K’vod Habriot, respect for the dignity of every human being. We pray that our fellow citizens shall not be the source of suffering in others. We commit ourselves to raise our voices in support of universal human rights, to know the heart of the stranger, and to feel compassion for those whose humanity is denied. May our compassion lead us to fight for justice. Blessed is the Source of Life, who redeemed our ancestors from Egypt and brought us together this night of Passover to tell the story of freedom. May God bring us security and peace, enabling us to celebrate together year after year. Praised are you, Source of Righteousness, who redeems the world and loves justice and freedom. . . .

Categories: Magid

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Freedom, haggadah supplements, North America, צדק צדק תרדוף tsedeq tsedeq tirdof

Contributor(s): T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

הארבה כוסות ואת הארבה חופשות | The Four Cups of Wine and the Four Freedoms, by Dr. Aurora Mendelsohn and President Franklin R. Roosevelt

Traditionally each cup in the Passover Seder is liked to a promise made by God in these verses, Exodus 6:6-7. The four cups can also be associated with the Four Freedoms first articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941, which were an inspiration for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and were explicitly incorporated into its preamble. . . .

Categories: Magid, Modern Miscellany

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Four Cups, Four Freedoms, Freedom, haggadah supplements, North America, Wine

Contributor(s): Aurora Mendelsohn and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A Guided Meditation for Pesaḥ, by Rabbi Daniel Raphael Silverstein

A meditation which can be used to prepare for Pesaḥ, or for sharing at the Seder, to deepen the experience of liberation for yourself and others. . . .

Categories: Erev Pesaḥ, Magid, Roleplaying

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., guided meditations, haggadah supplements, liberation from mitsrayim, scripts, יציאת מצרים Yetsiat Mitsrayim

Contributor(s): Daniel Raphael Silverstein and Applied Jewish Spirituality

A HaLakhma Anya Passover Seder Supplement for the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic (Our Common Destiny 2020)

A Passover supplement created for recitation at Passover seders in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. . . .

Categories: Magid, Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 2020 coronavirus pandemic, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., COVID-19 coronavirus

Contributor(s): Rabbi Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi, Ph.D.

Prayer for Israelites Lost in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, by Sholomo ben Levy

A prayer for the Passover seder recognizing the enslavement and estrangement of Jews and Israelites of African descent with hope for their ingathering. . . .

Categories: Magid

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Atlantic slave trade, Black Hebrew Israelites, English vernacular prayer, haggadah supplements, Middle Passage

Contributor(s): Sholomo ben Levy

Mah Nishtanah: what needs to change, a seder supplement to the Four Questions by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

A playful, powerful, passionate reading for Passover seder or any time. Can be chanted to the traditional Ashkenazi lilt for the Four Questions. . . .

Categories: Leil Pesaḥ, Magid

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Black Lives Matter, English vernacular prayer, מה נשתנה Mah Nishtanah, Passover seder, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s): Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

The Fifth Child: a Refugee Child, a supplemental Passover seder reading to the Four Children of the Haggadah by Rabbi Julie Schonfeld (JDWA 2022)

“The Fifth Child: The Refugee Child” was written by Rabbi Julie Schonfeld for a Passover Seder Haggadah supplement published by Jewish Democratic Women for Action (Passover 2022). . . .

Categories: Magid

Tags: 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, 2022 Ukrainian refugee crisis, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., children, haggadah supplements, Refugee Crisis

Contributor(s): Julie Schonfeld and Jewish Democratic Women for Action [JDWA]

How to leave mitzrayim, by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

A prayer-poem was written by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit in January 2024. . . .

Categories: Magid

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., haggadah supplements, Jewish Feminist Prayers, Kohenet, liberation from mitsrayim, Midrashic interpretation, Passover seder, Prayers as poems, יציאת מצרים Yetsiat Mitsrayim

Contributor(s): Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

All Four (Are One), a prayer-poem for Passover by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat (Bayit, 2024)

“All Four (Are One),” riffing on the story in the haggadah of the four children, is a prayer-poem on the theme of intracommunal discord six months after October 7th (possibly reflected in the family dynamics at the seder table itself). Written by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, it was first published on the website of Bayit: Building Jewish on 2 April 2024. . . .

Categories: Magid

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Four Children, haggadah supplements, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Prayers as poems

Contributor(s): Rachel Barenblat and Bayit: Building Jewish

אַרְבָּעָה בָּנִים | The Four Children — an alternative take by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

This variation on the discourse of the four children in the Haggadah was (barring minor edits) first composed for my family’s experimental small-scale seder in 2019, my second time ever leading a seder. I had come to the conclusion that for a text whose entire ikkar is for the children to learn, the Four Children narrative shows some shockingly bad pedagogy. So I decided to write a subversive take on it, where I applied its framework to some of the most serious problems facing the Jewish community today, and the mainline Jewish community’s failings in dealing with them. . . .

Categories: Magid

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., children, disagreement, Four Children, haggadah supplements, paraliturgical, pedagogy, satire

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תְּפִלָּה לַהֲשָׁבַת הַחֲטוּפִים | Prayer for the Return of the Captives, by Rabbi David Lau (Office of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel 2024)

This prayer for the well-being of the captives taken hostage by ḤAMA”S and its allies on 7 October 2023 was written by the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the State of Israel, David Lau, and shared by his office in the month preceding Pesaḥ 2024. The prayer is intended to be read at the Passover seder in the Maggid section before והיא שעמדה (v’hi she’amda). . . .

Categories: Magid, Slavery & Captivity

Tags: 2023-2024 Israel–Hamas war, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., captives, haggadah supplements

Contributor(s): David Lau and Shimshon Nadel (translation)

Bricks Without Straw, a prayer-poem by Trisha Arlin

“Bricks Without Straw” is a prayer-poem written by Trisha Arlin, first shared in the Passover anthology, From the Depths: Pesach 5785/2025 (Bayit: Building Jewish) on 17 March 2025. . . .

Categories: Magid

Tags: 21st century C.E., 47th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, פרשת וארא parashat Va'era

Contributor(s): Trisha Arlin and Bayit: Building Jewish

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