Thinking about Passover

For our Jewish neighbors, Passover begins this week…  A new telling of the story of the Exodus (written for The New American Hagaddah, by Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander) reminds us that, in celebrating the Passover, “In every generation, a person is obligated to view himself as if he were the one who went out of Egypt.”  How do we get our minds in that place, that mindset where Jesus may have been as he celebrated his Last Supper with the disciples?  Perhaps, New Yorker writer Sasha Weiss suggests, through poetry and prayer and the poetry of prayer, beginning like this:

Sanctify and Wash

Dip

Split   

And tell

Be Washed

And Bless

The Poor Man’s Bread

Bitter

Bundle

And Set Down to Eat

Hide It

And Bless

Praise It

Be pleased

To read Weiss’s article about The New American Haggadah, click here.

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