04/01/2026
Tonight, as we gather around our family tables, we join a chain of telling that stretches back more than a hundred generations.
The Haggadah does not ask us to remember the Exodus. It asks us to experience it and be a part of it. To make it feel as if we too were there. So lean to the side, and ask every question you can think of. Let the children stay up too late. Let the conversation wander. That wandering is the point. As we say, “my father was a wandering Aramean,” and the story we tell tonight is what kept us a people through every exile and every empire that rose and fell around us.
Tomorrow evening we gather as a TBS family for our Second Night Community Seder, and I am excited to share that table with you. But tonight belongs to your homes. Fill them with song and with the holy noise of a Jewish family doing what Jewish families have always done: passing it on. Chag kasher v’sameach (a happy and kosher Passover) to each of you, from our family to yours.
Rabbi Sam Stern
