This Year, Symbols
Shankbone for homes in Israel and Gaza
Where the Angel of Death is still present.
Maror is the term for the sharp, hot, and painful pain.
Hostages and children held in underground prisons.
Haroset means mortar: Gaza is a shambles.
The egg is roasted as if it were charred kibbutz walls.
The tears are everywhere, like a sea that has closed.
When God said, “My children are dying, and you praise them?”
Matzah – the cracker that brings liberation as well as affliction. (Gazans
If you are in danger of starvation, only choose one.
There’s no place on the seder plate for ambivalence,
survivors’ guilt, history’s persecutions telescoping into now.
Every generation, we are trapped in Mitzrayim by trauma.
Will we be able to start walking free this year?
R. Rachel Barenblat
Bayit released a new collection of poetry and liturgy for Pesach in 2024, which includes this prayer-poem. Click through for This Broken Matzah, available as a downloadable chapbook / PDF of liturgical poetry and art, or as google slides suitable for screenshare.
Featuring work created in collaboration by the Liturgical Arts Working Group at Bayit, this collection includes work by Trisha Arlin, Joanne Fink, R. Dara…
