FOR YOUR PASSOVER HAGGADAH.
If you celebrate Pesach, you know "Dayenu". It's the recitation at the seder table in which we Jews thank God for our survival through millennia of persecution, and declare that if God did nothing else for us, dayenu, it would be enough.

Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect now presents this social justice supplement to Dayenu called "Lo Dayenu," it is not enough.

LO DAYENU

God has brought us out of slavery but has not freed the other slaves of the world. So though we are thankful, lo dayenu. It is not enough.

God allowed our ancestors who were not slaves to immigrate to United States, often as refugees. But now our nation seeks to deprive refugees and immigrants a chance at life and freedom. So though we are thankful, lo dayenu. It is not enough.

God has given us lives of peace, far from war, while people die from genocide in many lands. So though we are thankful, lo dayenu. It is not enough.

God has made most men free while women endure legal, social and economic oppression. So though we are thankful, lo dayenu. It is not enough.

God has asked us, "If not now, when?" yet the world lacks the urgency to provide equality to people of every religion or none; to people of every race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orienation, gender identity and expression; and to people who are differently abled. So though we are thankful for progress, lo dayenu. It is not enough.

God has told us that when each generation makes freedom for all, with our own hands, joining together to make the world good enough for Elijah to come, we should be thankful.

Only then, dayenu! It will be enough.


haggadah Section: -- Cup #2 & Dayenu
Source: Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect