Secrets Behind The New Passover Haggadah; A Love Story; Part Two

Ancient Customs, New Awakenings
by Jerry Waxman

When the Yemenites brought their traditions to Israel, they brought the ways of their ancestors extending back thousands of years to the time of the Babylonian exile. They let me help make matzo. They let me help prepare for the seder. They brought me to synagogue, and helped me find my way through the prayer service.

The prayer service was like none I had ever seen before. The men sat around the sides of the room, chanting in unison, some without even looking in a book. Any one of them could have led the service, but one chose to be the chazan for that evening.

The whole seder was such an amazing experience, I no longer felt like a lone soldier. I was part of a vast family - a nation of tribes - with its customs and traditions rooted in the events of over 3300 years ago; our exodus from slavery in Egypt.

An Authentic Pesach Seder

Seder means "order." There is an order in which we do things at the Passover seder. All Jews, no matter what nationality, follow the same order. The Yemenites have basically the same Haggadah as Ashkenazis and Sephardis. Still the seder on the moshav was so dissimilar to our family seders in America, it was hard to think of them both as celebrating the same holiday.

We sat on cushions on the floor. Everyone was relaxed and jovial. Everyone understood the meanings of what was read, what was said, and what was sung. We leaned way way over to drink wine and to eat matzo. The seder meal became a play; a re-enactment of historic events to delight the children and entertain the adults.
[A side story: The story you are reading is true, though the sequence of events has been changed for effect. Meanwhile, in a remote village in Thailand, a little girl was starting out in life. She would one day be the leading inspiration for the Andaman Haggadah. Find out more when you buy the Andaman Haggadah for your Pesach Seder.]
There was food, wine, song, and laughter. And as we sat on the floor, I could imagine that this is how we were at our first seders in the wilderness, recalling the signs and wonders we had witnessed, and the parting of the Red Sea. We were there then. We were there again at our present day seder.

Even though I was more interested in the young women than in Jewish custom at the time, from that day on, I was hooked on the Jewish part of my Jewish heritage. I wish every Jew could experience what I had experienced at that time. The spark of inspiration for an English Haggadah was ignited.

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Secrets Behind The New Passover Haggadah; A Love Story Continues

• Part One - Lone Soldier Meets Yemenite Clan
• Part Two; Ancient Customs, New Awakenings
• Part Three; Every Jew Deserves This Jewish Feeling
• Part Four; Love and the Andaman Connection (Only available to owners of the Andaman Haggadah)

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"Why the Andaman Haggadah?"

There is no commandment to read a Haggadah. The commandment for the Passover seder is to "tell your children."

Every year at this time, we tell the amazing story of the Exodus. Not only do we talk about the terrible slavery of the Israelites. Not only do we recount the terrifying ten plagues. Not only do we just talk about the massive rush to freedom -- we act it out! The seder is so organized so that we experience our own history by eating or drinking different items while recounting the story of our ancestors.

We use different foods and drink on the seder table as props. And with just a little imagination, we find ourselves at the very first Passover seder. This way we always remember.

The problem with most haggadot is they don't speak our language. For English speakers with a limited knowledge of Hebrew, the Pesach seder is often a monotonous series of readings and rituals. That is not how it is supposed to be at all. It is supposed to be one of the most lively affairs you attend every year.

We need to tell the story in a language we understand. Many if not most Jews use the Hebrew prayers and blessings that have been brought down through the ages. This is preserved in the Andaman Haggadah. However to tell the story of the most dramatic event in the history of civilization - even the great rabbis of the Second Temple era used their vernacular. And so should we.

There are many other English haggadot. Most of the ones you find on the internet either stray from tradition completely, or they're boring - or both.

So I began to make a haggadah in English, based on a Hebrew haggadah that is used in Israel. And it quickly dawned on me, "Everyone needs a haggadah like this."

It's for you -- and your family, and your neighbors, and their neighbors. It's for all English speakers who deserve the intense joy that the Passover seder brings when you do it right.. Most important, it's for the children who are curious and have some questions to ask.

Whether we celebrate in Israel or in America or England or Australia or on an island in the Andaman Sea, we all deserve the great and intense joy that the Passover seder brings. Let The Andaman Haggadah be your guide. And may you and yours have the most fulfilling and happiest of holidays ever.

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Above all, have a most enjoyable, meaningful, and memorable holiday!! Pesach Kasher v'Sameach!

Jerry Waxman

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Open Letter To President Barack Obama in the Wake of His Address in Cairo on 4 June 2009

by Jerry Waxman

To the Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States of America

Dear Mr. President:

I'm writing to you from Sderot, where I live. You visited this town last year. In your speech in Cairo you referred indirectly to Sderot's unique disposition in the tragedy of "the roadmap." On the one hand I want to thank you - for speaking directly to the terrorists in front of a world audience, telling them that violence does them no good. On the other hand I want to tell you that you've let me down. You've let down the people of Sderot, where you talked about our right to defend ourselves.

Download a FREE sample of the all new Andaman Haggadah! the Most Exciting English Passover Haggadah in Ages! Click the Matzo below to get Your FREE Haggadah sample now! . Your solutions to the problems which concern Israel are not solutions at all. They will not lead to a lasting peace. Logic, pragmatism, and lessons from history tell us so. I support your vision of a world at peace and harmony, and I respectfully have to tell you that the policy you have outlined does not represent change. It is the same as the policies of the two administrations before you. This does not lead to peace.

Mr. President, I want to tell you that I came to Sderot less than a year ago. I left a job and a pretty good and safe life to live here. I know of others who have come from different countries and different walks of life with similar stories. They left secure, comfortable lives to live in Israel. And although many of us here have nothing now - no jobs, no security, no homes, nothing - we are determined to stay in Israel - in Sderot and in every town, city, and village in the land of Israel. We are fulfilling an age old dream of our ancestors and ourselves to live in this land.

I don't believe there is another people or nation on earth that has a dream like this. I don't believe there is one man or woman amongst the thousands of Palestinian refugees who would come to live in this land if they had more secure options elsewhere. Those who have shot rockets into Sderot have no claims to this town. They don't want to live here. A plan to carve out a piece of territory for people who really don't dream of living there is not a plan that will succeed, Mr. Obama.

When you spoke at the university in Cairo, people applauded your comments when you spoke of restoring dignity to the Palestinian people. I wholeheartedly agree that the Palestinian people deserve to have the same freedoms and opportunities as all people deserve. But then when you admonished the extremists for shooting rockets into Jewish homes, there was no applause.

How do you explain that, Mr. Obama? How do you explain that the one thing the Muslim world could do to shake off the stigmas and the stereotypes - to collectively and vocally denounce the few terrorists among them - they won't do it?

Neither did your comments about recognizing Israel draw applause from your Cairo audience, even though Egypt's Anwar Sadat was the first leader of a major Muslim country to risk his life, and lose it, by reaching out to Israel.

What does that tell you, Mr. Obama? If Egyptians show no pride in their country's historical peace agreement with Israel, can you expect other Arab and predominantly Muslim countries to open their skies to Israeli planes, and open their ports to Israeli goods, and open their minds to treating Jewish people with the same dignity and respect as all people deserve?

There is no connection to Jewish settlements, Mr. Obama. Jews have lived in Hebron and Gush Etzion long before there were ever Palestinian refugees. If there are Palestinians who dream of living in the territories of Judea and Samaria, there should be no reason they couldn't live there in peace with the Jewish settlers. Your call to Israel to stop Jewish settlements to form a separate state for Palestinians is not a call for peace. It is a plan that has failed, and can only fail again. There is no chance that it will lead to peace and prosperity for anyone, Muslim, Christian, or Jew.

That the Palestinian people have suffered there is no argument. That the Palestinian people deserve to have better lives, I totally agree. That much of their suffering began at the time that Jews declared Israel a state there is no denial of the correlation. But to suggest that Israel is the main cause of their suffering is to deny facts, and ignore truth. And to suggest a separate state for Palestinians is not a logical conclusion at all. As a peaceful solution to a problem, it doesn't merit consideration if only because it is not something the Palestinian people have ever struggled for or shown an interest in.

While the comparisons are not exactly warranted, Mr. President, please consider the oppressed minorities in the United States. The African Americans don't have a separate state within U.S. borders. The Latin Americans have not demanded a separate state. Nor have the Asian Americans. What would be the policy of the United States were the Muslim Americans to make demands for a separate state within the borders of the U.S.?

Mr. Obama, I do not join those Israelis who would respond to your speech with sarcasm or mockery. I do not join the Jewish activists who would use anger and invective against you as a way to thwart your goals. I am an American who supports you in your efforts to do what is in America's best interests. I am a friend who wants you to avoid doing things that are not in America's best interests and not in your best interests.

The "roadmap" is such a thing. I had hopes, in my support for you as a world leader, that you would see that the roadmap does not provide a pragmatic solution to any legitimate concerns of anybody who lives in the region. I had hopes that you would be more imaginative and act with more intelligence than your predecessor on these issues. I had very high hopes that you would act as a true leader and speak the real truth, though it may fly in the face of what other leaders have said, and put this roadmap aside to work out more desirable, more feasible, and more attainable goals in cooperation with affected parties in the region.

Until now, you have let me down. And while nobody may see it yet, you have let America down. Please consider these things that I have written, Mr. Obama, and be the true leader that Americans voted for. Distance yourself from failed agendas including the roadmap, and rely more on truth. Respectfully, Jerry Waxman Sderot Israel