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... but the Lord our God ... and we went out from there in the month of Aviv (Spring)
took us out of there with a with our children and elders. And if we had not gone out of
mighty hand and an there, then we and our children and our children's children
would still be enslaved to Pharaoh in Egypt.
outstretched arm. If the
(Kibbutz Kfar Gil`adi 1941)
Holy One, blessed be He,
had not brought our fathers "Go, return to Egypt" (Ex. 4:19) and make Me a nation. Do
out of Egypt, the we, our you know how a nation is formed? Call unto you the workers
children and our children's and the miserable and all those who groan from work and toil
children would still be and who are tortured at the hands of the taskmasters and
enslaved to Pharaoh in clerks who have no heart left and in it little feeling. Speak to
Egypt. them and take them out of the house of bondage and redeem
them and give them laws and ordinances and make from them
and the Lord took us out a people.
of Egypt. Not through an Go to them and tell them that they are slaves--and they
angel, not through a seraph will not understand ... and open their eyes with a mighty hand
and not through a ... and redeem them. And from amongst your brethren many
messenger, but the Holy people will follow you ... and you will become the father of
One, blessed be He, He many men, the head of their tribes. You will make of the
alone ... worms--men, and of the men--a people, and from the sands--a
land.
By David Frischmann (Kibbutz Na`an 1940)
בכל דור ודור חייב אדם לראות את עצמו כאילו הוא יצא
. . . ממצרים
שנאמר "ואותנו הוציא משם למען הביא אותנו לתת לנו את הארץ אשר נשבע
".לאבותינו
In Every Generation one is obligated to see oneself as if s/he, personally, went
out of Egypt … as it says, “for God took us out of there to bring us to the land which
was sworn to be for our ancestors.” (Deut. 6:23, not in Kibbutz Haggadot)
continuation:
TRADITIONAL Haggadah KIBBUTZ Haggadot
ביםִ ָ חי
ַ חנוְ ַ אנ
ֲ ְ פיכָך
ִ ל
ְ בים
ִ ָ חי
ַ חנו
ְ ַ אנ
ֲ ְ פיכָך
ִ ל
ְ
להודות להלל לשבח לפאר , לנטע, לזרוע, לעבוד,לבנות
לרומם לגדל ולהדר ולנצח
למי שעשה לנו ולאבותינו את כל לנטור,לעדר
הנסים האלו ולשאוף לצאת מעבדות לחרות
והוציאנו מעבדות לחירות
ומשעבוד לגאולה ,מיגון לשמחה
ומיגון לשמחה ,מאבל ליום טוב
ומאבל ליום טוב מאפלה לאור גדול
ונאמר לפניו,ומאפלה לאור גדול
..שירה חדשה הללויה ומשעבוד לגאולה
Therefore we must ונאמר לפניו שירה חדשה
thank, sing, praise, glorify, exalt, raise up,
acclaim [God] who did all these miracles .הללויה
for us and for our ancestors and brought us 1941 ,קיבוץ חולדה
out from slavery to freedom,
from sorrow to joy, from mourning to Therefore we must
festivity, from darkness to great light and build, work, sow, plant, plow, guard and
from enslavement to redemption! strive to go out from slavery to freedom,
And we shall sing before God a new song, from sorrow to joy, from grief to holidays,
Halleluyah! from darkness to great light and from
enslavement to redemption!
And we shall sing before God a new song,
Halleluyah!
בכל יום ויום חייב אדם לראות את
עצמו כמי שמכריע את הכף
ליציאת מצרים או להארכת
.הגולה
1944 כפר גלעדי
Ma nishtana??
A. For at all other times they would embitter our lives only in some parts of the
world, but at this time all is bitter.
B. For in all other times were were amongst some who strangled us while others
were lenient, but at this time there is only strangulation.
Kibbutz Glil Yam 1939
B. For at all other times there are tribes of Israel at peace and those who are
persecuted, at this time there is destruction of tribe after tribe.
Kibbutz Tel Yosef 1939
D. Ma nishtana -- Why is the people of Israel different from all other peoples?
For the gates of other peoples' lands are open to them to return home, but the
remnants of our people knock on our locked gates.
Kibbutz Ein Harod 1944
C. Ma nishtana. How does this night in our land differ from the night of the
Festival of Freedom in the Diaspora? For here we have thrown off the yoke of
the Diaspora and our freedom is real. There the people of Israel are in exile and
there can be no redemption other than in Eretz Yisrael.
D. Ma nishtana halayla hazeh mikol haleylot?
For on this night the message of the future will resound within us, that there will
come a time, a day of liberty and rebirth, a day of brotherhood and equality,
termination of evil and an end to enslavement, a day in which the supremacy of
Labor shall flourish everywhere.
Kibbutz Na`an 1950
Pesah, Exodus #9 of 9, p.4
Preparatory Homework
KIBBUTZ VERSIONS:
A. Ma nishtana ... Why is this night different from all
other nights?
B. For on all other nights some eat early and others
later, tonight all eat together.
C. For on all other nights our members are dispersed
all over the country, tonight we are gathered
together.
D. For on all other nights the children are seated at
their own table, tonight they are seated at their
parents' table.
Kibbutz Kfar Gil`adi 1941