Why is this Haggadah different from all other Haggadot?

Ophir Yarden

The children of Israel were redeemed from Egypt because they did not
change their names: Reuven and Shim`on went down [to Egypt] and
Reuven and Shim`on came out.
They did not call Judah -- Rufus, nor Yosef -- Lustus, nor Benjamin --
Alexander. And because they did not change their language -- they
continued to speak in the holy tongue.
(from Midrash Vayikra Rabba 32:5)
Hagaddah of Ayelet HaShahar 1946 (and others)

‫עבדים היינו‬ We Were Slaves

TRADITIONAL Haggadah KIBBUTZ Haggadot

We were once slaves to
Pharaoh in Egypt, but the
Lord our God took us out of
there with a mighty hand
and an outstretched arm. If
the Holy One, blessed be
He, had not brought our
fathers out of Egypt, the
we, our children and our
children's children would
still be enslaved to Pharaoh
in Egypt.
and the Lord took us out
of Egypt. Not through an
angel, not through a seraph
and not through a
messenger, but the Holy
One, blessed be He, He
alone ...
We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt an we went out from
there in the month of Aviv (Spring) with our children and
elders. And if we had not gone out of there, then we and our
children and our children's children would still be enslaved to
Pharaoh in Egypt.
Kfar Gil`adi (1941)
"Go, return to Egypt" (Ex. 4:19) and make Me a nation. Do
you know how a nation is formed? Call unto you the workers
and the miserable and all those who groan from work and toil
and who are tortured at the hands of the taskmasters and
clerks who have no heart left and in it little feeling. Speak to
them and take them out of the house of bondage and redeem
them and give them laws and ordinances and make from them
a people.
Go to them and tell them that they are slaves--and they
will not understand ... and open their eyes with a mighty
hand ... and redeem them. And from amongst your brethren
many people will follow you ... and you will become the
father of many men, the head of their tribes. You will make
of the worms--men, and of the men--a people, and from the
sands--a land.
David Frischmann (Na`an 1940)

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 On Crossing the “Red Sea”
TRADITIONAL Haggadah KIBBUTZ Haggadot

Thus how much more so do we owe
thanks to the Ever-Present for all His
manifold favors! He brought us
forth from Egypt, executed
judgments upon them and upon their
gods, slew their first-born, gave us
their wealth, divided the sea for us,
led us through it on dry land and
drowned our oppressors in it,
supplied our needs in the wilderness
for forty years ... brought us into the
Land of Israel...
It is taught: Rabbi Meir said: At the moment when the
children of Israel were standing at the edge of the sea,
the tribes were arguing with one another. One would
say: "I'm going into the sea first." And another would
reply: "I'm going into the sea first!"
When the tribe of Benjamin jumped in first, they were
stoned by the leaders of Judah.
It was not so, said Rabbi Yehudah. Rather one would
say: "I'm not going into the sea first." And another
would reply: "Neither am I going in first!"
At just that moment Nahshon ben Aminadav jumped
into the sea and was first.
(based on Babylonian Talmud, Sotah 36b-37a)

We went out to change the face of the world, to put an end to the enslavement
of man by man. The end is wedged in the hiding place of generations. When were we
born? At the moment that the first spark of dignity was ignited in a slave's heart. When
did we take up the flag? When the first person humiliated rose up against his humiliator.
Seven times we may fall and seven times we will rise up for justice and the liberation of
Man are with us.
We were born with the dawn of people who become free. We were present at all
mankind's struggles for liberty, in every killing field of the oppressed, at every "exodus"
of every people in every generation -- on the gallows, at the stake, in prisons and on the
barricades.
Yea, even if we should fall seven times, we will rise encouraged -- we and those
who will follow in our footsteps after we have followed those who preceeded us. There
will come a day when our flag will be the flag of the liberating society, when Man will
rise up to his full height seen by all in his hidden eternal light, his mind broad and his
heart pure, his hands faithful and his whole life freedom and justice. He will have no
Hebrew slave, no Canaanite slave, neither a Black nor a Chinese, and the honor of each
person will be the corner-stone of the redeemed society.
That day will certainly come!
(Moshe Belinson, used in Haggadah of Kinneret 1942)

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