Night of beginnings : a Passover haggadah / Marcia Falk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falk, Marcia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women--Religious life.

Jewish women.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Haggadah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; Lincoln : The Jewish Publication Society : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]

Summary:

Night of Beginnings is a groundbreaking new haggadah for the Passover seder from acclaimed poet, translator, and liturgist Marcia Falk, beautifully designed and illustrated with original color drawings by the author.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Notes for the Reader

Transliterations

Proper Names

Translations and Adaptations

Tinted Pages

פתיחת החג Opening the Festival

Hadlakat Nerot Ḥag Hapésaḥ: Lighting the Pesach Candles

The Journey: Lighting the Way (Kavanah)

Birkat Haz'man: Blessing of Time and Renewal (Sheheḥeyánu)

Change: The Flow of Life (Kavanah)

Birkat Habat, Birkat Haben: Blessing the Children

תחילת הסדר Beginning the Seder

The Seder Plate

The Seder Table

Kadesh Urḥatz: Order of the Night

Kadesh: Sanctification (Kiddush)

Birkat P'ri Hagéfen, K'dushat Hayom: Fruit of the Vine, Hallowing the Day (First Cup)

Fruit of the Vine (Kavanah)

Urḥatz: Washing

Washing the Hands

Karpas: Spring Greens

T'vilat Karpas Va'akhilato: Dipping and Eating the Spring Greens

Spring: The Birth of the Year (Kavanah)

Shirey Aviv Mim'gilat Shir Hashirim: Spring Poems from the Song of Songs

Yáḥatz: Breaking

Breaking the Matzah, Hiding the Afikoman

Brokenness and Wholeness (Kavanah)

לקראת המגיד Before the Maggid: Preparing to Listen

Arba Hakushyot: The Four Questions

The Four Children

Sh'faḥot Va'avadim Hayínu: Once We Were Slaves

Ha Laḥma Anya: This Is the Bread of Affliction

Open Door (Kavanah)

Freedom and the Lives of Others (Kavanah)

B'khol Dor Vador: In Every Generation

Telling Oneself into the Story

מגיד Maggid: The Telling

Presentation of the Text

Overview and Themes

One: Enslavement in Egypt

Two: Miriam and the Women

Three: Moshe's Calling

Four: Moshe, God, and Pharaoh-Confrontations

Five: Exodus from Egypt

Six: Miriam the Prophetess

Maggid: The Telling, Abbreviated

אחרי המגיד After the Maggid: Celebrating the Story

Kos Miryam: Miriam's Cup

Dayénu: It Would Have Been Enough

Nonetheless

What Is Enough(Kavanah)

Birkat P'ri Hagéfen: Fruit of the Vine (Second Cup)

Hallel 1, T'hilot Ḥadashot: New Poems of Praise

Song of Joy

The Feast

Nishmat Kol Ḥay: The Breath of All Life

Hal'lu, Yif'at Tevel: Hal'lu, Beauty of the World

סעודת החג The Festive Meal

Roḥtzah: Washing

Motzi'ah/Matzah: Unleavened Bread

Birkat Haléḥem, Akhilat Matzah: Blessing before the Meal, Blessing for Eating Matzah

Maror: Bitter Herb

T'vilat Maror Va'akhilato: Dipping and Eating the Bitter Herb

Sweet and Salt, Bitter and Sweet

Korekh: Sandwich

Eating the "Hillel Sandwich"

Shulḥan Orekh: Setting the Table

The Meal Is Served

Tzafun: Hidden

Eating the Afikoman

Concealment and Revealment (Kavanah)

Barekh: Blessing

Birkat Hamazon: Blessing after the Meal

Birkat P'ri Hagéfen: Fruit of the Vine (Third Cup)

סיום Concluding the Seder

Kos Eliyáhu: Elijah's Cup

Who Was Elijah(Kavanah)

The Promise of Elijah

Hallel 2, Mizmorey T'hilim: Psalms

Notes:

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."

B'tzet Yisra'el: When Israel Went Forth.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Falk, Marcia Night of Beginnings

ISBN:

9780827618954

0827618956

OCLC:

1295276351