Education begins with questions. Questions emerge when familiar patterns are disturbed. These four questions are stimulated by changes in the familiar patterns of the meal. Theological questions are stimulated by disturbances in the familiar patterns of life. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do we have to die? How can we believe in a God that we can't see? The simple recitation of the Haggadah will stimulate these and many other questions of this kind. They may not be in the text, but they will be in the air. Let them emerge. Use them for educational purposes. And don't worry if they are not answered. Most significant theological questions have no easy answers.

-- Neil Gilman


haggadah Section: -- Four Questions