The Haggadah doesn’t end with a dramatic crescendo or with a grand concluding statement. It ends with a short, cryptic acknowledgement that the seder has been completed properly. However, there is a line hidden in this passage with profound implications: “As we have been deemed worthy to prepare this seder, so may we be worthy to fulfill it.” If the seder is a reenactment of the Exodus, then its fulfillment is a new journey out of oppression. As we have been merited redemption from Mitzrayim tonight, so may we merit redemption from this carceral world. How do we merit this? Through fighting for it with all of our hearts, and all of our souls, and all of ourselves.

חֲסַל סִדוּר פֶּסַח כְּהִלְכָתוֹ
.כְּכָל מִשְׁפָּטוֹ וְחֻקָתוֹ
,כַּאֲשֶׁר זָכִינוּ לְסַדֵר אוֹתוֹ
.כֵּן נִזְכֶּה לַעֲשׂוֹתוֹ
,זָךְ שׁוֹכֵן מְעוֹנָה
.קוֹמֵם קְהַל עֲדַת מִי מָנָה
,בְּקָרוֹב נַהֵל נִטְעֵי כַנָה
.פְּדוּיִם לְעוֹלָם הַבָּא

Chasal siddur Pesach ke-hilchato, 
ke-chol mishpato ve-chukato. 
Ka-asher zachinu le-sader oto, 
ken nizkeh la-asoto. 
Zach shochein me-ona, 
komeim kahal adat, mi mana? 
Be-karov naheil nitei chana
peduyim le-olam ha-ba.  

We have completed the seder of Pesach following all of its laws and rules. As we have been deemed worthy to prepare it, so may we be deemed worthy to fulfill it. May the Pure One who dwells among us lift up our community, which cannot be counted. Bring close the day when You will guide the redeemed plantlings of the sapling to the World to Come.

!לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בְּנֵי חוֹרִין

L’shana haba’a b’ney choreen!

Next year in freedom! 
 


haggadah Section: Nirtzah
Source: Min Ha-Meitzar: An Abolitionist Haggadah from the Narrow Place by Noraa Kaplan