A Toast of Thanksfulness to Us

To where we’ve each come from

To where we’re going and how we’re changing

To being where we are and who we are

To what we can share

To what we can’t share… yet

To our joys and our struggles

Which in full times connect us

Which in hard times isolate us

To process, and the times we lose sight of process

To pain, to growth,

To painless growth, to painful growth

To our efforts, our faith, our determination

To our fears, tears, laughter, hugs and kisses

To wisdom, to study, along and in groups

To our books and tools, to toys

To materials, raw and fine

To work, to meetings, to sleep

To our eyes, which fortunately read Haggadahs

And see mountains, faces, flowers, bodies and sunshine

To our ears, hands, noses, mouths, toes, knees, and breasts,

To caress, to touch, to our senses

To the times we fall down and pick ourselves up

And the times friends help us up

To the shoulders we cry on

To the arms that hold us

To the strength in each of us, alone

To our work, our play, our loving, our growth,

And to life itself… l’chaim!

We feast!

(We fill the wine cups for the third time, to be blessed and drunk after redeeming the afikomen)


haggadah Section: Shulchan Oreich