David Arnow

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

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Produktbeschreibung

A guide to help you invigorate your Seder, create lively discussions, and make personal connections with the Exodus story today.For many people, the act of simply reading the Haggadah no longer fulfills the Passover Seder's purpose: to help you feel as if you personally had gone out of Egypt. Too often, the ritual meal has become predictable, boring, and uninspiring.Creating Lively Passover Seders is an innovative, interactive guide to help encourage fresh perspectives and lively dialogue. This intriguing Haggadah companion offers thematic discussion topics, text study ideas, activities, and readings that come alive in the traditional group setting of the Passover Seder. Each activity and discussion idea aims to: Deepen your understanding of the Haggadah Provide new opportunities for engaging the themes of the Passover festival, including interactive readings and bibliodrama Develop familiarity with the Exodus story, as well as the life and times of the people who shaped the development of the HaggadahReliving the Exodus is not about remembering an event long ago, but about participating in a conversation that provides hope and strength for the struggle to make tomorrow a brighter day. With this complete resource, you can create more meaningful encounters with Jewish values, traditions, and texts that lead well beyond the Seder itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 180mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781580231848
• ISBN-10: 1580231845
• Artikelnr.: 21057727

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 xi Preface xiii Introduction xv How to Use This Book xix A
Few Words for Seder Leaders xxi A Note on Rabbinic Literature, the
Haggadah, and Translations xxiii 1 The Long Road from Slavery to
Freedom: From Ancient Egypt to Our Time 1 Slavery in Ancient Times . Exodus
and the American Ethos . Vengeance versus Empathy . 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 02 The Four "Questions": Who's Asking What and Why? 25 Engaging
Children during the Seder: An Ancient Lesson . Questions about Questions .
The Greek Symposium and the Jewish Seder . Why These Particular Questions?
03 Two Haggadot in One: The Haggadah's Early Development 33 When Two Sages
Disagree: A Story about the Haggadah's Early Development . Art
Midrash:"Begin with Disgrace and End with Praise" . Crossing Rivers and
Taking Responsibility 04 The Five Sages' Seder: Who Were They and What Kept
Them So Late? 43 Five Super-Sages:Their Times and Teachings . Banning Rabbi
Eliezer . The Seder in B'nei B'rak: Reconstructing the Conversation 05 The
Four Children: A Seat at the Table for Everyone 57 The Four Children .
Torah versus Haggadah . The Wise versus the Wicked: A Recipe for Conflict
or Conflict Resolution? . Four Voices on Four Children 6 Hardening
Pharaoh's Heart: The Toughest Part of the Story 71 The Bible and the
Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart . The Commentators' Struggle . "I Will Send
All My Plagues into Your Heart . . . " . The Softening of God's Heart 07
The Festival of Spring: Reconnecting Passover and Nature 85 On Spring and
Time . The Origins of Passover:Two Views . History Trumps Nature .
Activities, Blessings, and Readings 08 The Exodus as a Personal Spiritual
Journey 103 Exodus:The Spiritual Journey . Milestones along the Road .
Crossing the Sea and the First Song . The Journey's Ultimate Purpose 09
Enslaved in Egypt: Why? 115 The Covenant of the Pieces . Israel Enslaved:
Many Questions, Many Answers . Joseph and the Enslavement? . The
Self-Critical Voice: Benefits and Dangers 10 "Strangers in a Land Not
Theirs": Remembering to Treat the Strangers among Us Justly 129 Knowing the
Heart of the Stranger . A Blessing:Treating Strangers Justly . Israel and
Its Minority of Arab Citizens 11 "In Every Generation . . ."? God's Role in
History and the Jewish People's History among the Nations 137 God: The
Elephant, as It Were, at the Seder . Arguing with God . The Sages on
Innocent Suffering . Modern Voices 12 "Go Out and Learn . . .": How the
Haggadah Tells the Story of the Exodus 153 How the Haggadah Tells the Story
. The Pilgrims' Prayer and the Haggadah . Jacob in the House of Laban . A
Much-Interpreted Phrase . Moses in the Haggadah . Deuteronomy's Israelite
History without Sinai 13 Women of the Exodus: Redeemed by Their
Righteousness 169 Passover in an Upside-Down World . Women and the
Haggadah: Missing in Action . 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 14 The Ten Plagues: Who
Suffered and Why? 189 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 15 Rabban Gamaliel: An
Embattled Leader 205 Who Was Gamaliel? . Deposed and Reinstated .
Fingerprints on the Haggadah viii 16 Reliving the Exodus: The Story of the
Last Night in Egypt 213 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 17 Israel
and the Haggadah 225 The Fruits of Israel versus 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 18 The
Restoration of Wonder: The Miracles of Egypt and Our Day 241 The Bible and
the Dictionary . The Sages on Miracles . The Restoration of Wonder . Jewish
Voices on Miracles . At the Red Sea: Two Midrashim . Between Pharoah and
the Red Sea . The Horse and Driver 19 "From Darkness to Great Light": What
Do These Words Mean to Us Today? 259 An Art Midrash Project . Variations on
a Theme . Four Interpretations of Five Phrases . A Deeper Look at a
Memorable Passage . The Cultural Milieu 20 "Blessed Are You . . . Who
Redeemed Us": The Seder of Redemption 271 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? . The Four Cups of
Redemption . A Quartet of Twentieth-Century Voices on Redemption . On Faith
in Redemption 21 "A Remembrance of the Temple": The Life and Times of
Hillel 287 The Meaning of Hillel's Sandwich . A Legendary Leader . Hillel's
Teachings . The Talmud on the Destruction of the Temple 22 Elijah's
Transformation: From Zealot to Folk Hero 301 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" 23 The Exodus from Egypt: The Question
of Archeology 315 History and Story . Five Sage Perspectives on the Exodus
and History Appendix I: Chapter Ten of the Mishnah Pesachim, the Night of
Passover 323 Appendix II: What Is Midrash? 325 Appendix III: Directions for
Art Midrash Projects 326 Appendix IV: Blessing for the New Moon 327
Abbreviations and Abbreviated Titles Used in This Book 329 Notes 331 Select
Bibliography 360 Index 365