Passover's Philosophical Significance

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generations of the people unite
together, year after year."
Passover is genuinely and
The noted Jewish philosopher,
truly a religious holiday because,
Martin Buber, tells us that "the
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as Buber observes, "the histori-
Passover was and has remained
cal
reality
of
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a spring festival." And that "it
Egypt cannot be grasped if the
is still celebrated by those who
conception of the accompanying,
have become entirely landless,
presiding,
guiding God is left
but no longer have even a com-
out. This is the 'God of the
mon wilderness to wander in."
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Fathers,' with whom the tribes
He says of Passover that "since
have
now
established
contact.
He
the night of the. Exodus it has
has always been a God who wan-
dered with his own and showed
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through the security of his name,
as the one who remains present
with his own." But Passover has
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writes that "on the threshold
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Moses. He was a man who led
the Hebrews for 40 years in the
wilderness of Sinai and it was
during that time that the Jews
became a people. And it is be-
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hood are • intermingled in the
story of Passover, that Passover
is in a unique way the prime
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Passover, we should remember
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has extraordinary depth. A con-
temporary scholar 'in compara-
tive 'religion, Dr. Theodor H.
Gaster, in his book "Passover,"
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val of physical freedom—a crude
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that liberation is but a symbol."
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marking Jewish nationhood and
religious freedom. Instead, we
emphasize the reading of the
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become a history feast, and in-
deed the history par excellence
of the world; not a feast of pious
remembrance, but of the ever
recurrent contemporaneou sness
of that which once befell. Every
celebrating generation becomes
united with the first. generation
and with all those that have fol-
lowed. As in that night the fami-
lies united into the living people,
so on the Passover night the

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