So the dough isn’t ready. So your heart 
isn’t ready. You haven’t said goodbye 
to the places where you hid as a child, 
to the friends who aren’t interested in the journey,
to the graves you’ve tended. 

But if you wait until you feel fully ready 
you may never take the leap at all 
and Infinity is calling you forth 
out of this birth canal 
and into the future’s wide expanse. 

Learn to improvise flat cakes without yeast. 
Learn to read new alphabets. 
Wear God like a cloak 
and stride forth with confidence. 
You won’t know where you’re going 

but you have the words of our sages, 
the songs of our mothers, the inspiration 
wrapped in your kneading bowl. Trust 
that what you carry will sustain you 
and take the first step out the door. 

from “Ready” by Rabbi Rachel Barenblat


haggadah Section: Motzi-Matzah
Source: Rabbi Rachel Barenblat