{"id":54426,"date":"2020-03-26T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=54426"},"modified":"2020-03-26T21:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T03:45:34","slug":"off-the-pulpit-this-seder-is-like-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-this-seder-is-like-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: This Seder Is like the first"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

When we sit down to Passover seders, we read about the oppression in Egypt and try to imagine ourselves as enslaved. We often forget that we are celebrating a holiday first celebrated before liberation.<\/p>\n

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For many of us this Passover will be true to the spirit of our ancestors. We are overcome by uncertainty and anxiety. We do not know what will happen; there is an element of the Yom Kippur liturgy hovering above the seder table \u2013 who will live and who will die, who will be healthy and who will grow sick.<\/p>\n

The Passover message is that in darkness are the glimmers of redemption. \u201cIn the evening there is weeping and in the morning joy\u201d wrote the Psalmist. On this Pesach we identify with the fear our ancestors felt in the face of a very different threat and we look for salvation, as they did, in one another and in God.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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