The Passover experience

The seder is a time to tell, to listen, to praise, and to question

WE MAY complain about the preparations, the details that must be attended to, the taste of the dry matzah, the length of the seder, but on Monday evening, most of us will celebrate Passover, in one way or another.

We will gather with family and friends, likely at home, sit down together and make the evening's seder ritual our own.

We are telling, and commemorating, the beginning of our nationhood, of our story that began in slavery and culminated in freedom. It is the original liberation story.

As Jews, we know the value of memory. But at Passover we are instructed not just to remember but …