Episode 62: SPARK - Pesach Edition
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S.P.A.R.K. - Pesach Edition
Welcome to our spring SPARK! A more free-wheeling, connective conversation between our hosts that we hope sparks something new in you. In this SPARK, Eliana and Ellen explore our journey on the way to enoughness, binding our wounds, & the furry shapes prophets sometimes inhabit. Plus, we listen to some of our favorite songs for the season!
How are you “Shema-ing” this year to actively soften your heart?
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Show Notes
Check out Eliana’s new Passover single:
Moses Isn’t in the Haggadah?!
(0:12) Abba - אבא - father
S.P.A.R.K. Song, Prayer, Action, Ritual, Knowledge
Pesach - פסח - Passover. Learn more about the holiday here
(1:00) Chag - חג - holiday
(1:13) Shavuot - שבועות - a holiday that celebrates the receiving of the Torah, which occurs 7 weeks after Passover. Learn more here
The counting of the Omer - starting the second night of Passover, we count up until the holiday of Shavuot. Learn more here
(1:40) Purim carnival
Elul - אלול - the final month of the Jewish calendar, known as a time of introspection before the High Holy Days. Learn more here
Seder - סדר - literally, “order” - the home ritual celebration of Passover. Learn more here
Israelites - a biblical term for Jews. Learn more here
(4:11) Cooking bracha by Leah Koenig and Anna Stevenson: “Blessed are you creator of the world who brings forth fruit from the earth blessed are you who gives us knowledge of cooking and time to cook and who has blessed us with the need for nourishment so that we can fully understand your gifts may it be your will that the food I cook bring nourishment, fulfillment, and happiness to those who eat it, and bring honor to the land and all the people that make this meal possible.” Here
Kashering the house (for Pesach) - cleaning and purifying your home in advance of the holiday. Learn more here
Kosher for Passover - כשר לפסח - learn more here
(6:39) Selling of chametz - מכירת חמץ - laws about Passover prohibit the owning of chametz (leavened foods) on Passover, so people sell their chametz ahead of the holiday. Learn more here
(8:50) Ramah Darom Passover Retreat
Chol HaMoed - חול המועד - the in-between days of Passover and Sukkot. Learn more here
Moadim l’Simcha (chaggim u’zmanim v’sasson) - מועדים לשמחה - חגים וזמנים לששון - the holiday greeting
Haggadah - הגדה - the written guide to the Passover seder. Learn more here
(10:01) Passage of the Haggadah that begins, “B’chol Dor VaDor Chayav adam lirot et atzmo.”
בְּכָל דּוֹר וָדוֹר חַיֶּבֶת אִיְּשָׁהּ לִרְאוֹת אֶת עָצְמָה כְּאִלּוּ הוא יִצְּאָה מִמִּצְרַיִם
Every person (male-leaning) is obligated to see himself as if he came out of Egypt.
(12:15) B’chol Dor VaDor by Debbie Friedman
Ma’yan Women’s Seder here
The Journey Song by Debbie Friedman
The Journey Continues: Ma'yan Passover Haggadah in Song
Mi Shebeirach by Debbie Friedman
Mi Shebeirach prayer for healing - מי שברך - find the traditional prayer here, find the Professor Meila Hellner-Eshbed’s version here
(14:20) Dayenu - דיינו - “It would have been enough.” Learn more about and find the text of this central Passover song here
Birkot HaShachar - ברכות השחר - blessings of the morning. Learn more here
Makom - מקום - the name for the Holy One meaning “Place”
(22:03) Mishkan - משכן - the Tabernacle - learn more here
Hava Nashira - Jewish songleader conference - registration still open!
Gan Eden - גן עדן - The Garden of Eden/Spiritual Heaven. Learn more here
Elijah the Prophet - אליהו הנביא - a beloved prophet who is said to visit each Passover Seder. Learn more here
(24:00) Kavanah - קוונה - intention
Eliyahu Hanavi: Opening the Door for Elijah” - a kavanah written by Rabbi Naomi Levy - here
Messiah - משיח - salvation. Learn more here
Haftarah - הפטרה - a set biblical selection from the Prophets chanted each Shabbat. Learn more here
Bris - ברית מילה - the Jewish circumcision ceremony 8 days after the birth of a baby boy. Learn more here
Baby naming - שמחת בת - the celebration of welcoming a Jewish baby girl. Learn more here
(28:53) “Not, Yet Elijah” by Harriet Feder here
(29:30) Psalm 147
Pesukei d'Zimra: Preparing Us for Prayer
Jerusalem - ירושלים - the capital of Israel
Search for chametz - בדיקת חמץ - Bedikat Chametz - learn more here
(36:43) “Echadity” - Ellen’s term for spiritual oneness
Merlin - an app to identify birds here
(39:40) Bubbe - בובי - Grandmother (Yiddish)
(44:30) Chava Alberstein's version of Chad Gadya here
Shira Lapirala (Yiddish song that Chava’s melody was partially based on) & Lyrics to Chava’s Chad Gadya translated by Juliet Spitzer here
T'fillah - תפילה - prayer
(47:00) Pharaoh - פרעה - learn more here
(52:30) Red Sea - ים סוף - yam suf - learn more here
Har Sinai - הר סיני - Mount Sinai - learn more here
“Loving Our Own Bones, Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole” by Julia Watts Belser here
Talmud - תלמוד - the intergenerational conversations about Jewish law that form the foundation of rabbinic law. Learn more here
Torah - תורה - the Jewish Bible. Learn more here
(56:53) Olam Haba - עולם הבאה - The World to Come. Learn more here
Professor Melila Hellner Eshed
(58:50) Zohar - זוהר - Jewish mysticism (traditionally not studied until age 40). Learn more here
Shechinah - שכינה - the Divine Feminine. Learn more here
Psalm 27: Lulei He 'emanti Lerot, betuv Adonai, be 'eretz 'chayim
לׅׄוּׅׄלֵׅ֗ׄאׅׄ הֶ֭אֱמַנְתִּי לִרְא֥וֹת בְּֽטוּב־יְהֹוָ֗ה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חַיִּֽים׃
Had I not the assurance that I would enjoy the goodness of the G-d in the land of the living
Lulei (If Only) by Eliana Light