Right after eating, in the middle of the Seder, night turns to day. The Haggadah quotes the holiday’s morning service: Nishmat kol chai—“let every soul sing.”

Light in darkness: the table is illuminated.

In the generational transmission from parent to child – the story of the Exodus from Egypt – we remember God’s promise fulfilled, past redemption, and in our retelling we become part of it.

The storytelling has its source in the most cited verse in the Haggadah, quoted in full to the child who does not yet know how to ask: “And you shall teach your child, ba’avor zeh, because of “this,” God took me out of Egypt.”

With no clear antecedent, the Haggadah explains: “zeh”—at the time when matzah and maror are on the table in front of you, during the Seder.

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