We Tell It To Our Children
THE STORY OF PASSOVER
A Haggadah For Seders With Young Children
By Mary Ann Barrows Wark - Illustrations By Craig Oskow
Table of Contents
CHAPTER
PAGE
Foreword Rabbi Leigh D. Lerner
P. VII
How to use the Haggadah
P. VIII
Preparation of the puppets
P. VIII
Preparation of the ceremonial foods for the Seder
P. VIII
Setting the table to present the ceremonial foods
P. IX
Performing the puppet show
P. X
How is this Haggadah different from the other 29,000 published Haggadahs?
P. X
Do we infantalize the Passover traditions by setting them in the dramatic voice, adding humor and song?
P. XII
How many children do you need to perform this?
P. XIII
If you use this Haggadah when your children are small, when do you use a traditional Haggadah?
P. XIII
How to adapt the script for Model Seders or classroom use
P. XIII
Inevitable spills
P. XIII
- Pharaoh puppet -
The story – Musical Puppet Show (approximately 1 hour)
P. 1
Introduction to the story
P. 1
Family photos
P. 2
Lighting the candles
P. 5
Optional Four Questions
P. 6
Reclining on pillows
P. 9
First cup of wine
P. 11
Scene 1: In which we find out what it is like to live when the new Pharoah is king. (Pharoah, Slave, Narrator)
P. 15
Maror or bitter herbs
P. 19
Charoset
P. 21
Scene 2: In which we find out how one Jewish baby boy was saved. (Narrator/Baby Moses, Yocheved, Miriam, Princess)
P. 25
Scene 3: In which Moses hurts an Egyptian (Narrator, Taskmaster, Slave, Moses)
P. 31
Scene 4: In which Moses is a shepherd. (Moses, sheep, Narrator)
P. 37
Scene 5: In which Moses and Aaron ask Pharoah to let the Jews leave Egypt. (Moses, Aaron, Pharoah, Miriam, Taskmaster, Narrator)
P. 43
Karpas (greens) dipped in salt water
P. 45
Lamb shank bone or paschal lamb (zeroah)
P. 71
Matzah
P. 77
Second cup of wine
P. 83
“Dayenu”
P. 84
Egg (beitzah)
P. 87
Cup of Elijah
P. 87
Third cup of wine.
P. 91
Afikomen or middle matzah.
P. 93
Handwashing
P. 93
MEAL
Grace after the meal
P. 94
Fourth cup of wine
P. 95
Optional Four Questions
P. 96
Songs
P. 98
Pharoah Doesn’t Pay
P. 98
It Made Them Mad
P. 99
Bad things will come to Eqypt (Plagues)
P. 100
Pharoah’s Lament
P. 101
Had Gadya (An Only Kid)
P. 102
Ehad Mi Yodeah (Who Knows One)
P. 104
Adir Hu (God of Might).
P. 106
Other books to use with children
P. 107
Recipes for Charoset
P. 108
Yemenite
P. 108
Israeli
P. 110
Ashkenazi and Italian
P. 110
Sephardic
P. 111
Guest list and puppet players
P. 112
*Puppet instructions
P. 112
*Puppets to cut out (in order of appearance)
P. 114
About the author, illustrator and book
P. 115
*Puppet palace and puppet tent
P. 117
*Only in Leader Edition (with puppets)