VIRTUAL SEDER
LEADER: Happy
Passover everyone and welcome to our VIRTUAL Seder covering the highlights. Sort of a best-of compilation. Kiddush, Questions, Slavery, Children, Plagues, Dayeinu, Pesach,
Matzah, Maror and Hallel. Hold on to your Kipahs! and let's get this Seder started....
LEADER OVER CUP OF WINE Blessed art thou, o'lord our God, the
maker of the fruit of the vine!
Baruch ata adonai eloheinu melech haolam, borei
pri hagafen.
PARTICIPANT: Thank you God for giving us
festivals and seasons to rejoice, and this Festival of Matzot to commemorate
the Exodus from Egypt. You have made us and our seasons of joy holy! [ Drink first cup of grape juice / wine ]
PARTICIPANT:
Let us recite the Shehechiyanu Prayer thanking God that we have come
together for this Seder: Thank you God for bringing us to this time and place!
ALL:
Baruch Ata Adonay Elohenu Melech Ha-olam, She-hechiyanu, V’kimanu,
V’heegianu, La’zman hazeh.
LEADER [Holding matzah] This is the bread of application that our
ancestors ate in the land of Egypt and you can buy 20 boxes for a dollar at Shop Rite. All who are hungry, come and eat, all who
are in distress, come share Passover with us! This year we are here, next year
let’s celebrate in Jerusalem. This year we are quarantined, next year may we be
free!
Can I ask you a question, or four?
PARTICIPANTS SING TOGETHER THE FOUR QUESTIONS
Ma nishtanah
halailah hazeh mikol haleilot?
Sheb'khol
haleilot anu okhlin hametz umatzah; halailah hazeh [x2], kuloh matzah. [x2]
Sheb'khol
haleilot anu okhlin sh'ar y'rakot; halailah hazeh [x2], kulo maror. [x2]
Sheb'khol
haleilot ein anu matbilin afilu pa'am ehat; halailah hazeh [x2] , shtei f'amim.
[x2]
Sheb'khol
haleilot anu okhlin bein yoshvin uvein m'subin; halailah hazeh [x2], kulanu
m'subin. [x2]
SONG:
Call and Response
LEADER: Participants:
What's up with the matzah? We Were
Slaves. Now can we drink some wine?
What's up with the horseradish? We Were Slaves
The parsley in the salt water? We
Were Slaves
What's with the Chillaxing at the Table?
Now
we are free
PARTICIPANT: We were slaves in Egypt. God did some really cool stuff and then we weren't. Had God not taken us out of Egypt, then what? We, and our children,
and grandchildren would still be slaves in Egypt and there may not be cures for many diseases or semiconductors or theories of relativity, the pocket fisherman or even the shopping cart! But he did so let's talk about it. But we are hungry so let's keep it brief.
LEADER For some reason, the rabbis thought it important to discuss four kinds of children just to show we have a 75% chance of being disappointed. One Wise, One Evil, One Simple, and One Who Doesn’t Know How To
Ask. GUIDE the wise one through the obligations of Passover and hope he/she
supports you in your old age. TELL the Evil One, Seriously? How about joining the family here? EXPLAIN to
the Simple One, “God Good…Slavery Bad.” ENGAGE the one who doesn’t know how to
ask, Oh bless their heart, and make that child feel comfortable, and tell them
about the Exodus.
PARTICIPANTS SAY TOGETHER [Take a drop of juice/wine from
your cup for each plague] There are ten plagues which God brought upon the
Egyptians: Blood —
frogs — Lice — Wild Beasts — Disease — Boils — Hail and fire — Locusts —
Darkness — Death of the first born - (Novel Corona virus optional).
ALL SINGING OF DAYEINU
Dei, Deiyenu
x 4
PARTICIPANTS SING TO TUNE OF DAYEINU
If
God led us out of Egypt and he did not punish enemies, If God led us out of Egypt:
Dayeinu.
If God punished all the enemies but he did not part the Red Sea, If God punished all the enemies Dayeinu.
If God brought us out the Torah,
but he did not lead to Israel. If God brought us out the Torah Dayeinu
If God brought us in to
Israel, but didn’t build a Temple, If God brought us in to Israel,
Dayeinu.
LEADER Rabbi Gamliel said: On Passover we must discuss three
things: Pesach, Matzah and Maror. And if Rabbi Gamliel said it, who are we not to do it?
PARTICIPANT: [point to the shankbone ] PESACH is the
sacrifice our ancestors would eat during the time of the Temple, because God
passed over the houses of our ancestors in Egypt.
PARTICIPANT: [ point to matzah ] This is MATZAH. Because the
dough of our ancestors did not have time to rise before we fled.
PARTICIPANT: [ point to Maror ] This is MAROR - why do we
eat it? Because the Egyptians oppressed our ancestors in Egypt (in case you have not been listening), they made their
lives bitter with hard labor, with mortar and bricks, and other hardships.
LEADER
In every generation we need to feel like WE had left Egypt. So now
we need to thank and praise God for the miracles of the Exodus. Thank you!
PARTICIPANT: Blessed is the maker of the fruit of the
vine! [Hebrew version above — Drink the Second Cup]
LEADER
Blessed is the maker of bread. Blessed is God who commanded us to eat
Matzah!
Baruch ata
adonai eloheinu melech ha olam, ha motzi lechem min haaretz, Baruch ata adonai
eloheinu melech haolam asher kidshanu b mitzvotav v tzivanu al achilat matzah.
[ ∆ everyone eat matzah ]
Blessed is God who commanded us to eat Maror!
Baruch ata adonai eloheinu melech haolam asher kidshanu b mitzvotav v tzivanu
al achilat maror [ Everyone eat the
Maror- Horseradish or Romain lettuce ]
Rabbi Hillel
combined the Passover offering, the Matzah and Maror together in a sandwich and
eat them to fulfill the words of the Torah. He is quoted as saying “They shall eat it with Matzah and
bitter herbs.” So that's what we do next.
Almost ready to EAT the Passover meal
PARTICIPANTS SAY TOGETHER Thank you God for this awesome
meal! Blessed is the maker of the fruit
of the vine! [ Hebrew version above —
Drink the Third Cup ]
SING TOGETHER
“Oseh Shalom bimromav, who ya’aseh shalom
aleinu, v al kol yisrael, v’imru, amen! Yaaseh shalom, yaaseh shalom, shalom
aleinu, v al kol yisrael. [ ∆ Say together ] God bring peace to the Jewish
People! Blessed is the maker of the
fruit of the vine! [Hebrew version above — Drink the Fourth Cup ]
EVERYONE TOGETHER
NEXT YEAR IN
JERUSALEM ANY WHERE BUT STUCK IN OUR HOUSES
SHANA HABA B’
YERUSHALAYIM ANY WHERE BUT STUCK
IN OUR HOUSES
NOW WE EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
