This Passover does not feel like other nights. The table is set. The familiar things are there. But the room is quieter this year. Seats are empty. Our children are at war.
Still, we begin as we always do. “This is the bread of our affliction…” The words are known, but tonight they land heavy. We are again in a place where fear is tangible, and the future unclear.
We tell our story as memory, but tonight as present. This year we understand more of what that night is about. The Torah does not give us this night so that we can remember what happened to them. The symbols on our table are not explanations. They are instructions.
Passover asks a harder question than how we will get through this. It asks what kind of people we will be when we do.
Bitter herbs: Evil is real
The bitter herbs are not only explained. They are eaten. The eyes water. The taste lingers. This is not a symbol we observe. It is something we...
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