Hannah Senesh is a daughter of the exodus, as are all of us here tonight. Torah teaches us that G-d of Israel despised slavery and that we are G-d's agents to free all human beings from the bonds that limit them. We learn from the Book of Exodus that deliverance comes with our refusal to accept injustice. In Exodus the first steps towards freedom for the Hebrew people were taken by women. Midwives defied Pharaoh to preserve new lives. Pharaoh's daughter plotted with slave women to adopt a Hebrew child, whom she called Moses. The first to scorn oppression, women took the initiative which led to liberation. 


haggadah Section: Introduction