We begin with this answer to our questions:

עֲבָדִים הָיִינוּ הָיִינו.

עַתָּה בְּנֵי חוֹרִין:

Avadim hayinu.

Ata b’nei chorin.

We were slaves. Now we are free.

We were slaves to Pharaoh, and God took us from there with a strong hand and outstretched arm. Had God not brought our ancestors out of captivity, then even today we and our children and our grandchildren would still be slaves. Even if we were all wise and the most knowledgeable scholars, we would still be obligated to tell the story of the Exodus.

The traditional Hagaddah spends some time exploring the meaning of the phrase "with a strong hand and an outstretched arm". What a thing to imagine- an outstretched arm and a strong hand reaching out from heaven to redeem the Jewish people. It makes us wonder- what could we do with that kind of power? 

In the spiirit of the rabbis and of briniging fresh ideas to this timelss story, I'd like to just quickly go around the screen and ask each of us to offfer one answer to the question "What could we do with our individual and collective mighty hands and outstreched arms to make the world a better place?" 


haggadah Section: -- Four Questions