Kiddush: The First Cup

Kiddush (The First Cup of Wine)

It is traditional to drink four cups of wine during the Seder to invoke the four promises that God made to the Hebrews—to bring you out, to deliver you, to redeem you and to take you as my people. While we do not accept the idea that Jews are the “chosen people”or that liberation lies in divinity alone. Tonight, we drink four cups of wine to the promises of our movements for justice and our commitments to collective liberation. 

First Cup: To the Spirit of Freedom and Legacies of Resistance
Second Cup: To the End of Injustice, to Self-Determination and to Life
Third Cup: To Our Common Heritage of Struggles against Oppression and the Kinship of all People
Fourth Cup: To Sustaining Ourselves, Each Other, Our Movements and the Planet

Source: Legacies of Resistance: An Anti-Zionist Haggadah for a Liberation Seder

Hold up the cup in your right hand and recite the blessing over the wine.

בָּרוּךְ אַתַּה יְיָ אֱלֹהֵיתוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, בּוֹרֵא פְּרִי הַגָּפֶן

Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu melech haolam, borei p’ri hagafen.

Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who creates the fruit of the vine.


haggadah Section: Kadesh