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Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities

Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities


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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments to the Second Edition xi Preface to the Second Edition xiii Acknowledgments to the First Edition xv Preface to the First Edition xvii Introduction xix How to Use This Book xxiii A Few Words for Seder Leaders xxv A Note on Rabbinic Literature, the Haggadah, and Translations xxvii 1 A Dish for the Ages: The Seder Plate 1 Confused? • Experiment with Your Plate • A Taste of History • Why Does This Plate Differ from That One? 2 The Long Road from Slavery to Freedom: From Ancient Egypt to Our Time 17 Slavery in Ancient Times • Exodus and the American Ethos • The Great Seal of the United States: Israelites Crossing the Red Sea versus a Pyramid • Former Slaves Speak • Let Freedom Ring: Historic Words on Freedom • Jewish Values and Social Justice:American Jews in the Antebellum South • Slavery in Our Time 3 The Four "Questions": Who's Asking What and Why? 37 Engaging Children during the Seder: An Ancient Lesson • Questions about Questions • The Greek Symposium and the Jewish Seder • Why These Particular Questions? 4 Passover After the Temple: From Sacrifice to Story 45 Judah the Prince and the Seder • Telling the Story: Some Ancient Advice • "The Medium Is the Message" • Taking Elaboration Seriously • Art Midrash:"Begin with Disgrace and End with Praise" • Crossing Rivers and Taking Responsibility 5 Five Super-Sages in B'nei B'rak 57 Five Super-Sages:Their Times and Teachings • Banning Rabbi Eliezer • Gamaliel’s Conspicuous Absence: Fingerprints on the Haggadah 6 The Four Children: A Seat at the Table for Everyone 67 The Four Children • Torah versus Haggadah • The Wise versus the Wicked: A Recipe for Conflict or Conflict Resolution? • Four Voices on Four Children 7 Hardening Pharaoh’s Heart: The Toughest Part of the Story 81 The Bible and the Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart • The Commentators’ Struggle • The Softening of God’s Heart 8 The Festival of Spring: Reconnecting Passover and Nature 93 On Spring and Time • The Origins of Passover:Two Views • History Trumps Nature • Activities, Blessings, and Readings 9 The Exodus as a Personal Spiritual Journey 111 Exodus:The Spiritual Journey • Milestones along the Road • Crossing the Sea and the First Song • The Journey’s Ultimate Purpose 10 Enslaved in Egypt: Why? 123 The Covenant of the Pieces • Israel Enslaved: Many Questions, Many Answers • Joseph and the Enslavement? • The Self-Critical Voice: Benefits and Dangers 11 “Strangers in a Land Not Theirs”: Remembering to Treat the Strangers among Us Justly 137 Knowing the Heart of the Stranger • A Blessing:Treating Strangers Justly • Two Midrashim on the Stranger • Two Zionist Leaders on the Stranger 12 “In Every Generation . . .”? God’s Role in History and the Jewish People’s History among the Nations 147 God: The Elephant, as It Were, at the Seder • Arguing with God • The Sages on Innocent Suffering • Modern Voices 13 “Go Out and Learn . . .”: How the Haggadah Tells the Story of the Exodus 163 How the Haggadah Tells the Story • The Pilgrims’ Prayer and the Haggadah • A Much-Interpreted Phrase • Laban and Pharaoh • Deuteronomy’s Israelite History without Sinai 14 Women of the Exodus: Redeemed by Their Righteousness 177 Passover in an Upside-Down World • Women and the Haggadah: Missing in Action • The Women of the Exodus in Midrash • Eden and Egypt:Two Tales of Exodus • Serakh bat Asher and the Exodus • The Legend of Miriam’s Well • The Ritual of Miriam’s Cup • Redeemed through Blood and Water: Balancing Elijah’s Cup with Miriam’s Cup 15 The Ten Plagues: Who Suffered and Why? 197 Plagues Against the Israelites? • Why Spill Wine from Our Cups? • When Our Enemies Fall • The Plagues and Knowing God • Signs, Wonders, and Faith: Or Did the Plagues Fail? • Measure for Measure • Revealing the Creator through Anti-Creation 16 Moses in the Haggadah: The Human Role in Redemption 213 Where’s Moses? • “Not By an Angel . . .” • Why Minimize Moses? • Fresh Readings:The Haggadah and the Human Role in the Exodus • The Covenantal Context of Redemption • Righteous Women, Apple Trees and Charoset • Purim in the Haggadah • In Every Generation • Five Midrashic Voices on Redemption 17 Dayyenu: It Would Have Sufficed 231 First Songs:The Song at the Sea and Dayyenu • Roots? • Why Fifteen Divine Favors? • Dayyenu as Microcosm • Sinai Without Torah:Would It Have Sufficed? 18 Reliving the Exodus: The Story of the Last Night in Egypt 241 Setting the Stage • The Last Night in Egypt • Bibliodrama: Knocking in the Night • Bibliodrama:To Stay or to Leave? • A Prayer for the Journey • Marching from Egypt to the Promised Land 19 Israel and the Haggadah 253 The Fruits of Israel and Egypt: A Puzzle • Israel’s Absence from the Heart of the Haggadah • Whither Israel? • The Fifth Cup • Readings for the Fifth Cup • Passover, Messianism, and Israel 20 The Restoration of Wonder: The Miracles of Egypt and Our Day 271 The Bible and the Dictionary • The Sages on Miracles • The Restoration of Wonder • Jewish Voices on Miracles • At the Red Sea: The Horse and Driver 21 “Blessed Are You . . . Who Redeemed Us”: The Seder of Redemption 287 The Seder of Hope: Tuning in to Themes of Redemption • Redemption in the Bible and the Ancient Near East • An Age-Old Question: Why Did God Redeem the Israelites from Egypt? • The Four Cups of Redemption • A Quartet of Twentieth-Century Jewish Voices on Redemption • On Faith in Redemption 22 Passover without a Seder: The Paschal Sacrifice 305 Passover in Egypt • In Temple Times • The Passover Rite • Sources on Sacrifice • Sacrifice in Our Lives Today 23 Elijah’s Transformation: From Zealot to Folk Hero 319 Elijah Comes to the Seder • Elijah’s Cup • The Biblical Elijah • The Elijah Puzzle • Modeling the Potential to Change • A Mirror: A Tale of Elijah and the Seder • “Pour Out Your Wrath” versus “Give Up Anger” • More Than Vengence Alone 24 Two Seder Songs: Echad Mi Yodea and Chad Gadya 333 Echad Mi Yodea: Mysterious Origins • A Night of Numbers • Counting What Matters • The Ba’al Shem Tov • Chad Gadya • Inspiration? • Came the Commentators • Modern Voices • The Haggadah’s Last Word:A World of Eternal Life 25 The Exodus from Egypt: The Question of Archeology 349 History and Story • Five Sage Perspectives on the Exodus and History Appendix I: Chapter Ten of the Mishnah Pesachim, the Night of Passover 357 Appendix II: What Is Midrash? 360 Appendix III: Directions for Art Midrash Projects 361 Appendix IV: Blessing for the New Moon 362 Abbreviations and Abbreviated Titles Used in This Book 364 Notes 366 Select Bibliography 403 Index 407

About the Author :
David Arnow, PhD, a psychologist by training, is widely recognized for his innovative work to make the Passover Seder a truly exciting encounter each year with Judaism's most central ideas. He has been deeply involved with many organizations in the American Jewish community and Israel and is a respected lecturer, writer, and scholar of the Passover Haggadah.

Review :
This book looks at the Seder from 25 different angles, drawing from the Haggadah, the Torah and the Mishnah. The author goes into great detail about the history of the Seder, detailing many of the changes that have taken place throughout history. Included are sections on the four questions, the four children, the sages, Pesach as a spring holiday, slavery, Pesach and Israel, the plagues, redemption, Elijah and the music of the Seder. There is a section from Mishnah Pesachim, a bibliography and an index. The preface notes that this new edition contains a new chapter on music, as well as chapters on the Seder plate and on Moses. The author has obviously studied Pesach in depth, but despite the title, this book is more of a study of the Seder as a historic tradition than an actual guide to conducting a Seder. There are suggestions for using the book that involve printing copies of readings, contacting guests ahead of time and organizing discussions in different rooms before the Seder even begins. This approach will probably be impractical for most readers. Most of the sections do provide questions that may trigger discussion among the right mix of guests. The book has an accompanying website, www.livelyseders.com, that offers more activities, articles about Pesach and a downloadable Haggadah text for users to cut and paste in the process of creating their own Haggadahs. This book is recommended for synagogue libraries, but a better choice for those that don't own it yet is The Family Participation Haggadah: A Different Night, by Noam Zion and David Dishon.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781580234443
  • Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Jewish Lights Publishing
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1580234445
  • Publisher Date: 03 Mar 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1 gr


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