#dayenu

[maimonidesnutz]

After second night seder

#Jumblr #passover #dayenu #ENOUGH

[applesauce42069]

#jumblr #judaism #passover #dayenu

[faircatch]

Dayenu

So, for my job, I used to write things with a Rabbi... like emails and social media posts, etc...

A few years ago, at the first COVID Passover, there was no travel or social gathering, and very few people were able to visit family to celebrate the holiday. People were alone for their Seders and it was a new and isolating experience. Knowing how difficult this would be, I looked up some speeches and opinion pieces about Passover that might be inspiring and maybe lift some spirits...

I wish I could remember the Rabbi, but one write up was about how we say Dayenu (translated as, "It would have been sufficient"). Dayenu recounts all the wonderful things Hashem has done for the Jewish people and basically breaks it down that if Hashem had ONLY done this one thing for us, it would have been sufficient. It's a long list and one of them is, "If Hashem had brought us to Mount Sinai and not given us the Torah, it would have been sufficient." But that raises the question of what would be the point of gathering the Jewish people to Sinai and NOT giving us the Torah?

The answer is: Because this was the first time we, the Jewish people, had been gathered together specifically as the Jewish people. It was the first time we were gathered as a joint community.

I wrote how this related to us being isolated during COVID during the holiday... How did I connect this?

Even if we are sitting alone in our homes, we are all doing that together. All of us, all the Jewish people around the world - in the diaspora, in Israel, all the same nights and doing the same basic things (though traditions vary). We are still the Jewish people. We are still gathered as a joint community. We are still all connected to each other through this holiday - telling the same story of our freedom from slavery. We are joined by an invisible bond to all our fellow Jews with our identity intact, surviving thousands of years, telling our story year after year.

It was a call to remember we are not alone, even when we are alone.

I think about it again now because I see so many Jews on this site and on other media talking about how they feel isolated and alone.

I hope we all remember that we are joined together by that invisible bond still. That as we sit at our Seders and telling our story, there are millions of others who are doing the same and that we are still here as a community. We drink our wine (or grape juice or what have you) and dip our bitter herbs into a mixture of apple/nuts/wine/dates (or d'vash or whatever you use) for morar... We sing Dayenu and welcome Eliyahu... we do so separately and together... with family, or with friends, while hiding on college campuses, or in hotels with catered meals, at big tables and small, for the first time or for the 180th time, with chairs full and with empty chairs for the missing...

And I hope that for those that are feeling alone can somehow read this and know that they aren't alone. We are here with you. We are Jews with you. We are a community and we survive by telling our story every year together.

Sending you all love and hope for happiness and peace.

May it be sufficient.

#pesach #Passover #Seder #Passover Seder #Dayenu #Jewish #jumblr #diaspora #Jewish history #Jews

[creatingnikki]

recently someone introduced me to the Hebrew word daiyenu. they said it translates to ‘it would have been enough’. sounds basic, right? but the sentiment this word carries is precious. it is a beautiful way to express gratitude. a way to say that even though things didn’t end up the way that would have been the most ideal for us, we are still so grateful for what has been done. we never met and played that game of chess but you stayed up with me all those nights my dad was in the hospital and made me laugh. daiyenu. my skills as an artist never improved so I can’t even call myself one but illustrating like a 4th grader is one of the few ways that help me destress and not overthink. daiyenu. we don’t love each other anymore but when we did it was sincere and kind. daiyenu. anything I cook other than spaghetti always turns out less tasty than it looks but I am learning to cook and nourish myself. daiyenu. despite all that time we spent together so closely we never actually understood the other person but we tried many times before giving up. daiyenu. you never remember my birthday but always show up with a present whenever we meet because everywhere you go something reminds you of me. daiyenu. my body does not do the things I would like it to but it keeps me alive and puts up with my three-hour sleep cycle, midnight snacking, and no moisturising. daiyenu. our taste in music is poles apart but we still send each other songs as a way to say I want to know the parts of you that I cannot inherently resonate with. daiyenu. any fairy lights I buy stop working within a few days but for as long as they do they provide a sense of calm that I can no longer go without. daiyenu. you did not read any of the books I gifted or recommended to you but have never missed anything written by me. daiyenu. you did not agree with what I said but did not laugh, mock, or deny me my feelings. daiyenu. you are not mine to keep but we get to share this magical and maddening part of our youth together. daiyenu. life is not going according to plan but I get to course correct and cry and buy oranges and tell my mother I love her. daiyenu. 

@shedreamerwings thank you for introducing me to this beautiful word/concept. 

#thankful #writerscreed #poeticstories #poetryportal #bitsofstarglow #inkstay #writtenconsiderations #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #thankful and blessed #gratitude #grateful #daiyenu #dayenu #hebrew #thank you #creatingnikk

[notquiteinsanity]

This is a hard time for all Jews rn. And I’m so thankful to my synagogue and to jumblr for making me feel less alone. As someone in the process of converting this feels like a really big time to be on such a journey.

Conversion, I would argue, is always a bit lonesome. You might lose all your family, you might not. Even if you don’t, you still say goodbye to all the traditions you grew up with, and even if they didn’t mean much to you, it’s still something that you say goodbye to. There are so many goodbyes in conversion.

And there are so many hellos. New people, new community, new traditions. It’s so exciting and honestly feels like such a balm to my soul. The piece of me that was always missing coming home.

Watching the news, seeing the antisemitism and the divide, it terrifies me. And yet I see all my synagogue keep their heads up and keep going and it brings me so much hope. I see Israelis making matzah after bombings occur and singing Dayenu and I know it would have been enough.

Even for me, even just this, remaining a ger for life, would have been enough.

#ramblings #jumblr #sorry if I shouldn’t be tagging this as jumblr since I’m only a ger #gerim #conversion #dayenu

[sandwichesaremyfav]

Chag Pesach Sameach

Dayenu

✡︎ It would have been enough

✡︎ It would have been enough for Hashem to let our people go but not have lead us to Mount Sinai

✡︎ It would have been enough for Hashem to have lead us to Mount Sinai but not have given us the Torah

✡︎ It would have been enough for Hashem to have given us the Torah but not have given us the promised land

✡︎ Yet He did all of it for our people

Dayenu

#jewblr #judaism #passover #pesach #dayenu #finding happiness #baruch hashem

[madtomedgar]

Just... What if women in fiction had tragic endings that had nothing to do with gender. What a world.

#while yes this is prompted by the latest #it is a general post because its a general issue #that when writers in any medium want to have a tragedy centered on a woman #the tragedy becomes about how she is a woman and cant escape that #or otherwise its somehow caused by or about womanhood #and thats bullshit because men get to be tragic about everything #and only sometimes is it about gender #and i love orphan black and tlt because they both have really tragic arcs #for their women that arent about them being women #even tho they are about gender in a meta sense #but like. what if the way you were doomed #had nothing to do with your anatomy or your gender #what if what if what if #we have had women doomed for being women or being women wrong #for hundreds of years #dayenu

[eretzyisrael]

Dayenu, Coming Home - The Fountainheads Passover Song

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#Pesach #Passover Music #Dayenu #Fountainheads #Judaism #Youtube

[shapesofglory]

RRR exists, and that is enough

#dayenu #im just so happy this piece of media exists #RRR

[stealth-liberal]

Dayenu

So, tonight was the last little bit of tidying up before tomorrow starts the cook-off that will end in the Passover* seder meal at 7pm. I did a lot of cleaning that past few days, but not as much as I have done in other years. Both my kids have had the flu, and my husband had a bad cold. So, what I did had to be good enough... dayenu.

Today, I bought a lamb shank and some kosher for Passover wine. I took my kids, who FINALLY felt better out to the park, and we took in a museum. We talked about what I would cook and what they would be helping with. Would a fanatic be satisfied with my Passover prep cleaning this year? Nope. And I don't care... dayenu.

Sometimes, I think we get so wrapped up in the ritual of this massive cleaning project before the holiday that we forget what the holiday is supposed to be about. We compete over who did it best, and it's just... crap. The holiday isn't about cleaning, and if you think it is, you need to take a step back. I made a post earlier about how much I hate Passover and how it's my least favorite holiday. How the rules have gotten so severe about this cleaning that it seems they are meant to keep women cleaning and quiet till Rosh Hashanah.

This year, I'm actually looking forward to it. I didn't work myself to exhausted tears and yelling at everyone. I did what I could, did a small bit more, and then stopped... dayenu. And for the first time in, I cannot tell you how long, I am actually looking forward to the seder. Repeating dayenu while caring for the sick people around me and doing what I could to prep got me through what I was sure was going to kill me.

Today we took it easy and breathed in the fresh air. I just got back from dropping off my chametz (wheat products) at their yearly vacation at my friend's house. I'm going to take a shower and watch a movie before going to bed. And I'm not on the verge of tears thinking about tomorrow. How nice.

Dayenu.

*I don't say Pesach often because when I was a little girl, I was a bit of a brat who overemphasized the cchh sound in Pesach and sounded, intentionally, like someone who had tuberculosis. So I got banned from saying it by my exhausted family, and so I always say Passover now.

#sl speaks #jumblr #jewish #passover #pesach #judaism #dayenu

[klinejack]

WHY DO I KEEP GETTING LOGGED OUT OF TUMBLR

#ITS HAPPENED LIKE EVERY OTHER DAY FOR THE LAST 2 WEEKS #ENOUGH #DAYENU

[shamballalin]

Whatever Religion We Do or Don’t Follow, Let’s Forget Judgment and Resurrect Love Instead

Cheryl Melody Baskin singing her version of Dayenu. Today I am sharing a post written by Cheryl Melody Baskin (Melody) on April 14, 2022. Her website is: https://cherylmelody.com/?fbclid=IwAR332IgEjNhF3tlWQEG4dK6f9Z4-CySxHFZFiYYz6gUkdO_9ngKkvrSSEBw_aem_AQ5xB2ldZRYVQRdHKHWT__qAcc6i_sbsY-ElDqhL6jwtYnuygbrlSzD1_2KJjH-c8CbhlWfK2PVNZqzzwiKq7UUQ This post was originally published April 14, 2022 by…

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#Adonai #Aki Purakh #all-powerful #Allah #Bhagvan #Chanukkah #Cheryl Melody Baskin #Chinese New Year #Christ #Christmas #cosmos #Dayenu #Diwali #Easter #Elohim #God #Hanukkah #HaShen #Holy Father #Holy Ghost #Holy Spirit #Jehovah #Jesus #judgment #Krishna #Kwanzaa #Life #Light #Love #Maccabeats

[revjss]

Evening Prayer - 17 Oct 2023

God, there’s a song that (at least some) Jews sing as they celebrate Passover, as they celebrate you leading their ancestors from slavery to freedom. “Dayenu,” they sing. “That would have been enough.” The song celebrates all that you did in freeing their ancestors from the bondage of slavery. You didn’t just free them; you protected them and led them and taught them and brought them home. And—Dayenu—though it would have been enough if all you did was free them, and you chose to do so much more.

I wonder tonight if you ever look at us and say, “Dayenu” (or whatever the Hebrew derivation of the word is) to say to us that what we did during a day or a week or a year or a lifetime was enough. I think you do. I think that, though we are far from perfect, we are good enough in your eyes and that our struggle to be faithful is, at least most of the time, enough. I sure hope so, God, because I’m ending this day feeling like what I did was enough, and maybe a little bit more, and that in doing so, I’ve pleased you. And if it turns out that I have not done enough, at least I’ve sought to do enough. And I trust that that desire pleases you.

Thank you for doing enough for me. I pray that I have done and that I am enough for you … at least for today.

Amen.

#evening prayer #thanksgiving #Dayenu

[lynnwriting]

Dayenu: A Pesach Miracle

Remember how a few weeks ago, I shared about how an issue at work had turned sour, so sour it might have even been antisemitic? Well, last week, on Rosh Chodesh Nisan, a miracle occurred. Click below to read what! #dayenu #Pesach #musings

Remember how a few weeks ago, I shared about how an issue at work had turned sour, so sour it might have even been antisemitic? Well, last week, on Rosh Chodesh Nisan, a miracle occurred. It wasn’t a huge miracle; nothing like the splitting of the Red Sea, but it was my miracle. My little miracle, or Hashem’s way of telling me everything is going to be okay. I can’t reveal everything now, all…

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#dayenu #Exodus #Israel #Jewish #Jewish holidays #Judaism #miracle #miracles #musing #Musings #Nisan #Passover #Pesach #Rosh Chodesh #Rosh Chodesh Nisan

[dwuerch-blog]

ENOUGH Already!

Ever said these words? “I’ve had it!” “Enough is enough!” “I can’t take it anymore!” “I’ve had ENOUGH!” “ENOUGH already!”ENOUGH (in the context of “had enough”): outraged, tired, sick, weary, disappointed, fed up, up to here, teed offWe’ve all been there – to the crushing point of exhaustion. We’ve long stood for an answer to our prayers. It seems the prayers are hitting the ceiling. We feel…

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#answer to prayer #blog #christian #dayenu #disappointed #end of our rope #enough #enough already #exhaustion #fed up #grace is sufficient #inspiration #Jesus in the Garden #Jewish Seder Passover #Let this cup pass #monotony #more than enough #outraged #tired #weary

[kamil-a]

indulge me a moment. while i firmly believe sayer is both atheist (belief) and anti-religious practices (distraction) (unproductive) (you are notttt getting shabbos/holidays off at aerolith are you kidding me lmfao) sayer would looooove pesach. sayer would love it so much. i would attend sayer's sayder. and it would read and explain the haggada itself. and everything it said as explanation would be like literally religiously heretical. it would be talking about how the exodus from egypt is actually about leaving earth for typhon. go off on a tangent about how taking upon oneself the yoke of heaven is actually about going to literally space in the sky and doing your part to comply by aerolith rules and be responsible for your fellow residents. it would LOVE to tell everyone a story about a goat bought for two zuz that gets eaten by a cat whos bit by a dog whos hit by a stick etc etc etc and honestly it might view it in an innovation/obsolescence way and scare itself.

and of course it would be. unbelievably strict. with how much of each thing youre supposed to eat.

#we have it on canon record it thinks dayenu was about 'THATS ENOUGH. STOP IT' ; AND it cant pronounce dayenu right. beautiful. more pls #seder-wide alert howard young has once again won the WICKED SON award !!!!!!! KICK HIS TEETH IN!!!!! #sayerposting #freeing from drafts as i do pesach clean tasks.