Blog : Morim.org

We are taught that each one of us should see our self as if we personally came with the Jewish people out of Egypt. This is the experience that we re-create at our Seder Table each and every year. This narrative of freeing our people, individually and collectively, from the shackles of slavery and forging ahead to craft and become masters of our own destiny, has become the archetypal story of fulfilling one's individual idea of one's future. Slaves became masters; people who were completely dependent on others learned how to depend on each other; and we became cognizant of our own responsibility for our survival. This was a hard task to be sure and so much is written on it from every possible point of view. Here we are going to look at how we learn about this all-important chapter of our history given our individual perspectives. We are given permission to have such individual perspectives through the personae of The Four Sons in our Seder narrative and the many different aspects of our existence they come to represent. And this is where we begin!