Why Is This Year Different From All Other Years?
I’m struggling this year to reconcile the lessons I’ve taken from the holiday: to help the world, but also to remember how often the world has turned on us.
Every year, when my family sits down at the Passover seder table, we talk about the stranger.
The version of the Haggadah that we use, with its readings and blessings, includes a passage from Exodus: “You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of a stranger.” Hammered home during my childhood was the message of compassion: Because our ancestors were freed from bondage in Egypt, we should help those who suffer today.
Over four cups of wine, we always reflect on who, currently, languishes in a metaphorical
