Ask a group of Jews about their favorite holiday and many will be quick to respond, "Passover". People of all ages enjoy hte holiday for many reasons.  - the food, the opportunity to be together as family and the fun, interactive parts of the Seder. Yet delve deeper, and certain themes contained within the exodus story and the observance of the holiday may resonate on a personal level and provide motivation to perform mitzvot. These themes, many of whiich have social justice implications, are indeed what make the holiday so poignant  within, iif not te centerpiece of, thhe Jewish experience.

The imperative of the seder is to tell the story: to explore it, question it and thus, to make it brilliantly vivid. The exodus from Egypt is the formative event of the Jewish People, and te aim of the seder is to see ourselves inside this narrative, to relive the experience in the present. The Haggadah embraces many questions, and there are things each family does differently, all to prod our curiosity and provoke discussions that draw us deeper into the sequence of events that take us from slavery to freedom and then to revelation and redemption.


haggadah Section: Introduction