Maggid

With maggid we tell the story,

The exodus from degradation to dignity,

M'g'nut l'shevach,

From slavery to freedom.

Each of us is to tell this story

and we who do so at length are surely to be praised.

But this collective story

of the journey from slavery to freedom

is not the entirety of the tale.

Each of us bears our own stories

which relate our journeys, our paths to freedom.

If each of us must relate our people's story

all the more so

should we be praised

for continuing the story

adding the individual strands

which make our identity,

which explain our journeys.

To journey is to prepare,

to leave,

to travel,

to wander and wonder.

To journey is to arrive,

to accustom,

to question,

to change,

to remain as we were,

yet touched by the journey.

What are our journeys

from slavery to liberation

from alienation to community

from afar to within

from foreign to familiar

from anxiety to comfort

from narrow spaces to expanse?

As we answer,

we continue maggid.

We tell our stories.

(Lisa S. Greene)


haggadah Section: Maggid - Beginning