In the beginning our ancestors worshipped idols, but then Adonai our God called us to holy service. In the city of Ur, our patriarch Abraham was the first to understand that God is One, the Eternal. Abraham rebelled against the senseless practice of bowing down to the work of one's own hands. To worship God in freedom, Abraham had to flee the land of idolators and go to the land of Canaan, where he would become the founder of "a great nation." Abraham and his wife, Sarah, obeyed God's command and journeyed to Canaan. There God blessed them and their family. Their son was Isaac, who married Rebecca. Their grandson was Jacob; and it was Jacob and his family who went down to Egypt

Blessed be the One who keeps His promise to Israel, he brought the end to our Exile just as He said to Avraham, our father, in the Covenant between the Pieces. "And He said to Avram, 'You should know that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. They will enslave them and make them suffer for four hundred years. But I will also judge the nation whom they serve, and after that they will leave with great wealth."

The reader raises their glass

This is what has stood by our ancestors and by us. It has not been just one that has stood against us. Rather in every generation they try to destroy us and in every generation we persevere.

Sometimes he is Abraham or Avraham, sometimes he is Avram. What's that about? 


haggadah Section: -- Exodus Story