tagged: Four Freedoms • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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

Contributor(s):

Aurora Mendelsohn and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Categories:

Magid, Modern Miscellany

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

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. . . .