Active not passive

David Ben-Gurion’s masterful speech to the U.N repeated many truths enunciated by Moses thousands of years prior. When the Jews stood at the brink of the Exodus, Moses gathered the people and instructed them how best to prepare for the great events ahead. Their journey was commencing and they were embarking on charting their own destiny after hundreds of years of slavery – one of the most epic moments in Jewish history.

knows what day that journey beganthe 15th of Nisan and knows what food was consumed and that in addition, we have continued to eat that same food annually until today. We know who led our people - we know the inside story!

Every year, the Exodus story is retold to our children guaranteeing it will never be forgotten. He concluded with two statements: “This year we are slaves. Next year, free men. This year we are here. Next year in Jerusalem!”

That day at the United Nations, BenGurion’s observation alluded to a deep truth relating to the transmission of Jewish knowledge. The Pesach Seder does not teach in abstraction, rather it allows participants to relive the Exodus. We eat matzah, the unleavened bread the Jews ate in their urgency to leave; taste the bitter herbs of slavery and drink four