David Arnow

Creating Lively Passover Seders (2nd Edition)

A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative, interactive guide to help encourage fresh perspectives and lively dialogue at your Passover Seder. A complete resource for creating meaningful encounters with Jewish values, traditions and texts that lead well beyond the Seder itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jewish Lights
• 2nd Edition, New
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1045g
• ISBN-13: 9781683360179
• ISBN-10: 1683360176
• Artikelnr.: 45374917

Autorenporträt

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. He is author of Creating Lively Passover Seders: A Sourcebook of Engaging Tales, Texts & Activities and coeditor of the two-volume My People's Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries, with Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, PhD (both Jewish Lights).

Inhaltsangabe

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