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Freedom is not Free
Apr. 1st, 2007 08:03 pm The Price of Freedom
By Paul Greenberg
Tonight we quit Egypt at last, and strike out for the promised land. It's the first night of Passover, the first night of freedom.
We Americans know what freedom is. It's one long Fourth of July party, complete with hot dogs, apple pie, and a brass band playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Not to mention those 76 trombones.
The old story will be retold in response to the simplest of questions, which is to be asked by the youngest child at the table: "Why is this night different from all other nights?"
Then the whole, towering, thunder-and-lightning, awe-filled Book of Exodus will be transmuted into answers fit for children of all ages-a fairy tale told in song and story, capped by a great scavenger hunt at the end of the evening for the last crumb of sanctified matzah needed to properly complete the whole, magical evening.
A good time will be had by all. That's what freedom is all about, isn't it?
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By Paul Greenberg
Tonight we quit Egypt at last, and strike out for the promised land. It's the first night of Passover, the first night of freedom.
We Americans know what freedom is. It's one long Fourth of July party, complete with hot dogs, apple pie, and a brass band playing "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Not to mention those 76 trombones.
The old story will be retold in response to the simplest of questions, which is to be asked by the youngest child at the table: "Why is this night different from all other nights?"
Then the whole, towering, thunder-and-lightning, awe-filled Book of Exodus will be transmuted into answers fit for children of all ages-a fairy tale told in song and story, capped by a great scavenger hunt at the end of the evening for the last crumb of sanctified matzah needed to properly complete the whole, magical evening.
A good time will be had by all. That's what freedom is all about, isn't it?
( Read more... )
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