Freedom Seder for the Earth, 2009

Freedom Seder for the Earth, 2009

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

2015

Moshe Kornfield, Scott Meyer, Elias Sacks, Stephanie Yuhas, Andrew Violet, Jane Thaler

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Freedom Seder for the Earth Traditional Haggadah Freedom Seder for the Earth “Thus we have the ten plagues that the Holy One, blessed be He, brought upon the Egyptians in Egypt… Blood Frogs Vermin Beasts Cattle Disease Boils Hail Locusts Darkness Slaying of the First- born” “Water into Blood (Pollution and privatization of water...) Frogs (dead and maimed by chemicals) Vermin (Poverty) Beasts (Extinction of thousands of species) Mad Cow Disease Boils/Pestilence (...asthma epidemic; environmental cancer; neglect of people with HIV...) Hail (Radical climate change, global scorching) Locusts (Famine, genetically modified foods, patented seeds) Endless Night (Plague of blindness to each other, failure of empathy...) Slaying of the First-born (War, terrorism, torture, prisons, AIDS, gun-violence dead, especially children).” The traditional Passover text highlights ten plagues that God brought upon the ancient Egyptians in the Bible to free the Jews from slavery. Liberation seders, such as Arthur Waskow’s recent Freedom Seder for the Earth, reread God’s plagues as human-caused afflictions. (2009)