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[drwex]

https://www.haggadot.com/

I am not so much surprised that it exists, but that it's a "build your own" site. This is quite a thing.

Non-Jews who have no idea what I'm banging on about are forgiven.

Comments

[reedrover]

I don't know if it's helpful or not until I try it. Would you send me a link or two? I'm definitely curious. I have a sufficient number of Jewish friends and acquaintances that I took the opportunity to watch the video and read up a little on this web site, but I don't have the cultural insight to understand how Passover would be secularized.

Thanks!

[drwex]

As I said, I don't think it's going to help you to think of it as a "secularized" holiday. It's one of the "they tried to kill us; we're still here; let's eat" holidays. (Yes, we have several of those.)

It doesn't mark a specific religious event, but it has some directly religious elements. Whether one chooses to engage with those or not can make it more or less of a religious occasion.

Hmm, maybe I'll make this the theme of my annual Passover post, and see if I have anything coherent to say about it.

[reedrover]

Actually, that helps. I was focused too strongly on the "we were spared a Biblical plague by divine power" (what gets focused on in kids' Christian Bible school) and not enough on the "we survived, we are free from Egypt, let's celebrate."

[coraline]

also, there's a whole movement and congregations of secular jews who are establishing ways to celebrate and use their judaism as a focus for all the good things religion can provide (tradition, community, philosophical structure and focus) -- celebrating passover is just part of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_Judaism
http://www.shj.org/humanistic-judaism/what-is-humanistic-judaism/
http://www.kahalbraira.org/about/humanistic-judaism

[coraline]

www.eszter.com/Haggadah.pdf
www.circleboston.org/sites/www.circleboston.org/files/Haggadah_2012_0.pdf
http://seder.today/haggadot/humanist-haggadah/
https://www.scribd.com/document/251038254/Humanist-Haggadah