It is time to answer the questions with the story | Passover haggadah by Leslie Liss

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It all begins with a guy named Joseph who did incredible things for the Egyptians — like saving them from an epic famine — and his family came and settled in Egypt.

But after a lot of time passed, a pharaoh (a king of Egypt) rose to power who didn’t know Joseph, and who didn’t think that any of the stuff he had done for the Egyptians was important. The Jews became the slaves for the Egyptians.

What does it mean to be a slave? It means you work hard all the time, but you don’t get paid. You cannot rest when you want, nor get to do what you want. Instead, Pharaoh, who was a really not nice person, was in charge of deciding what happened to the Jews. Pharaoh was terrible to our people. When he heard someone predict that one day a baby boy would be born who would free the Jews from slavery, he freaked out and ordered all Jewish baby boys to be killed!

Pharoah was a really terrible person!

So one Jewish mother, Yocheved, tried to save her baby from death. She was desperate. She made a basket and put her little boy in it and sent it floating on the river. She didn’t know what would happen, but she hoped that, somehow, God would take care of her baby. The baby’s older sister, Miriam, followed the basket to see where it went. Do you know who found it? Pharaoh’s daughter! She said she would make the baby hers, telling the baby she was his mommy, and that she would call the boy Moses which means "taken out of the river"

Song: Baby Moses" (Sung to "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush")

Where is baby Moses, Moses, Moses

Where is baby Moses

In the river Nile

The princess she went swimming, swimming, swimming

The princess she went swimming

In the river Nile

The princess she did find him, find him, find him

The princess she did find him

In the river Nile

He grew up in the palace, palace, palace

He grew up in the palace

By the river Nile

Loudly Sing: "Bang, Bang, Bang" (Ben and James, we want to hear you sing!!!)

Bang, bang, bang

Bang your hammer low!

Bang, bang, bang

It's a heavy blow!

For it's work, work, work,

Everyday and every night!

For it's work, work, work

When it's dary and when it's light!

Moses grew up in Pharaoh’s family, not knowing he was a Jew.. Still, he didn’t feel good about people making other people slaves. One day, he saw an Egyptian taskmaster beating a Jewish slave. Moses thought it was wrong and tried to stop it, but he ended up killing the Egyptian. He knew he would be in big trouble, so he ran away from home, into the desert.

While Moses was in the desert, he became a shepherd — a person who raises sheep — and got married and started a new life. But one day, he saw a bush that was on fire but didn’t burn up. That was weird! He went closer and God started talking to him out of the burning bush! God told him that he needed to go back to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to “Let my people go.”

So Moses went back to Egypt. He joined up with his brother Aaron, and together they told Pharaoh to free the Hebrew slaves. But Pharaoh said, “No way.” Moses warned Pharaoh that God would make terrible plagues — huge problems — that would hurt the Egyptians if Pharaoh didn’t let the Hebrews go.

Loudly sing: "Listen King Pharoah!" (Jess and Jason, we want to hear you!!!)

Oh listen. Oh listen. Oh listen King Pharoah!

Oh listen. Oh listen. Please let my people go!

They want to go away!

They work so hard all day!

King Pharoah! King Pharoah! What do you say?

No! No! No! I will not let them go!!!!

Pharaoh didn’t listen, and bad things happened to the Egyptians: the water in Egypt turned into blood; the land was covered with frogs, and then lice. There were beasts roaming everywhere, and then all the cows got sick and died. People got boils — weird bumps — all over their bodies. Hail fell from the sky. Bugs were everywhere. There was darkness; it seemed like night never ended. And then came the worst plague: the killing of the firstborns of Egypt, just like Pharaoh had tried to do to the firstborn Hebrews.

Let's sing: "The Frog Song"

One morning when Pharoah woke in his bed,

There were frogs on his head and frogs in his bed!

Frogs on his toes and frogs on his nose!

Frogs here! Frogs there! Frogs were jumpig everywhere!

*****Everyone get up and jump like frogs!!!!**** Come on Steve! Jump!

Pharaoh couldn’t take it anymore. Finally he said, “Yes, the Jews can go.”

Moses and the Jews knew that Pharaoh might change his mind, so they fled their homes, packing as much as they could as quickly as they could. They were in such a hurry, they didn’t even have time to wait for the morning.

Sure enough, when the Jews got to the Sea of Reeds, they turned around and saw Pharaoh and his army chasing them, trying to capture them. The Jews were really scared and worried.

So God told Moses to stretch his arm out over the sea. Then a miracle happened!: The sea split into two halves!. The Jews walked through on dry land — but when the Egyptians tried to follow them, the path closed up again, drowning the army.

The Jews were safe and free!!!!!l.

haggadah Section: -- Exodus Story