1. On all other nights we may eat either leavened bread or matzah; tonight, only matzah, that we may recall the unleavened bread our ancestors baked in haste.

2. On all other nights we need not taste bitterness; tonight, we eat bitter herbs, that we may recall the suffering of slavery.

3. On all other nights we needn't dip our food in condiments even once; tonight we dip twice, in saltwater to remember our tears when we were enslaved, and in charoset to remember the mortar and the bricks which I made.

4. On all other nights we eat sitting up; tonight, we recline, to remind ourselves to savor our liberation. 

And tonight we will ask ourselves a fifth...

5. We are commanded to celebrate as if each one of us was personally liberated from Egypt. In the next year, how do you hope to bring yourself closer to freedom?


haggadah Section: -- Four Questions