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Monday, March 26 2012

The Plotke Family Haggadah - Nusach Chabad - Free and Open Source

I have extensively edited this free haggadah since last year. New to this version are hundreds of corrections, the inclusion of only fonts which can be legally redistributed, and a wider layout intended for legal size paper.

Here is a PDF of the haggadah: Haggadah_Legal.pdf

Here is the LibreOffice document: Haggadah_Legal.odt

Here is a zip file containing the fonts used: Haggadah_Fonts.zip

If you want to work on the haggadah, you should first install the fonts, then open the odt in LibreOffice (version 3.6.4). This is the only method (almost) certain to work.

When I first began work on it, there wasn't this glut of Chabad Haggadahs that currently saturates the market. Still, I think this is a valuable contribution in that it provides the complete hebrew text and a translation for free, in every sense of the word.

It is forbidden to use any electronic copy of this haggadah in violation of the strictures of any Jewish holiday. Consult a Jewish Calendar if you are unsure when holidays fall out or what the rules are.

The Plotke Family Haggadah by Michael Plotke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Wednesday, December 28 2011

Links to the אינטרנט מלא ספרים

Here are links to a comprehensive collection of Jewish E-books. There are ample resources for ספרים online yet there existence is almost a secret. Just like your house should be filled with ספרים your computer should be filled with ספרים. Besides, it's free.

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Tuesday, December 20 2011

ASCII Art Menorah for Chanukah

Happy Chanukah! Read all about the miraculous story and have an amazing joyous holiday!

Feel free to take this ASCII art menorah and use it as you please.


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Wednesday, December 14 2011

The Elusive Arab Solution

I will not equivocate, but will rather state what is evident to anyone who looks. The world is under threat from Islamic terrorism. Not just the western world, but all corners of the globe. So how can this dire situation with the Muslim Arabs be resolved?

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Friday, July 8 2011

Lessons of a Story from My Yeshiva Days

At the time, the point of the story seemed to be that not everything the Rebbe does has a spiritual reason, and that we as chassidim shouldn't behave as those in the story. With minimal consideration, I can learn exactly the opposite lesson.

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Monday, April 11 2011

Every Time We Touch

Seems to me people have lost sight of what touch means, and how it relates to becoming a happier, healthier individual. I'm here to set the record straight, with dynamite.

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Sunday, April 10 2011

Separation of the Sexes

"...not only is the Jewish prohibition of physical contact between unmarried members of the opposite sex not a backward fanatical rule, its one of the most practical rules in Judaism."

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