Why is this night diifferent than all other nights?

On Passover, we are commanded to love the stranger. We are commanded to recall the experience of being a stranger in Egypt, and to use that collective experience toward empathizing with someone else - another stranger.

Ask yourself this night, "What does it mean to love the stranger?" In our society today, we may tolerate the stranger, and we may even sympathize with the stranger, but what does it mean to go beyond tolerance and beyond sympathy? To truly love the stranger?

We ask you, this Pesach 5777, to call on our collective Jewish experience of being strangers - to imagine what it must feel like for those who feel themselves to be strangers in our communities today. We furthermore ask you to think about how we can begin to repair their lives; how can we eradicate the strangers' darkness, and how might we embrace them.

Why is this night different than all others? Tonight we concentrate on those who are without community or family, and we ask ourselves, how we can play a role in changing such a hardship using our own resources.

We were once a strangers in the land of Egypt. Tonight, let us consider what we can do to embrace the strangers around us today.


haggadah Section: -- Four Questions
Source: Ve'ahavta