Rabbi Liz P. G. Hirsch

Executive Director, Women of Reform Judaism


Our God, the God of our ancestors

Free all those captured in war.

Free the captive women:

Free our mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, and aunts.

Free the babies and children,

senselessly, violently kidnapped.


Fulfill that great mitzvah, that holy duty

Of redeeming the captive.

May they all return, swiftly

To their families and their homes.


May women’s bodies be sacred and safe.

Shechinah, nurturing presence, watch over them.

Guard them.

Protect them.

Bring them home.


Baruch atah, Adonai, matir asurot.

Blessed are You, Eternal our God, who frees the captive


haggadah Section: -- Ten Plagues
Source: https://ravblog.ccarnet.org/2024/03/ccar-passover-haggadah-supplement-prayers-poems-songs-and-meditations-in-response-to-october-7/