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Friday, April 17, 1981

"In every generation each individual must see himself as if he were going out of Egypt."

How does one see himself actually going out of Egypt?

Do we. sit down to the Seder like the Yemenite Jew with staff in hand and knapsack .
slung over our shoulder ready for the Exodus?

Are the tears in our eyes merely from the bitterness of the maror or do we also
empathize with the burning pain of the taskmaster's whip?

How do we see ourselves going out of Egytp?

We do not begin to understand the frightening loneliness of a Morehead Kennedy, of a
Charles Jones in the dark cellers of Teheran, held hostage remote from loved ones.

We do not begin to fathom the desperation of an Anatoly Scharansky, of an Ida Nudel
and hundreds of Jewish refuseniks in,their gulag prisons in Siberia, as they, nevertheless,
voice, "Next Year in Jerusalem."

We do not begin to comprehend the hopelessness of a martyred Steven Biko
asserting the South African Soweto black's yearning for dignity in a world which has
denied God's parenthood.

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We sit down to the Seder. We open the Haggadah before us.
"Go out to your brothers and sisters! Learn!", the text orders us.

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We can make a beginning. We tell the story. We taste the matzoh, the bread of affliction.
We swallow the maror, the bitter herb. We reach out in empathy, in understanding to all
who are oppressed, enslaved, persecuted, isolated.

And hope shines forth. A Jacobo Timerman does write without restraint now, in
Jerusalem. A Josef Mepdelevich has broken the chains of bondage to breathe the free air
of Israel.
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"And the Holy One Blessed be He redeems us from these evils"

As partners with God in an ever-evolving creation, we voice our faith in all mankind's
ultimate freedom.

The Conservative Rabbis of Metropolitan Detroit

Rabbi Robert Abramson, Hillel Day School

Rabbi Allan D. Kensky, Beth Israel Congregation, Ann Arbor

Rabbi Hilel Rudaysky, Congregation Beth Israel, Flint

Rabbi Milton Arm, Congregation Beth Achim

Rabbi Alan B. Lucas, Assistant Rabbi, Congregation Shaarey Zedek

Rabbi A. Irving Sc nipper, Congregation Beth Moses

Rabbi Noah Gamze, Downtown Synagogue

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Rabbi Benjamin Go

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Rabbi David,Nelson, Congregation Beth Shalom

Rabbi Efrfi
pectre, Adat Shalom Synagogue

Rabbi Stanley Rosenbau , Assistant Rabbi, Congregation B'nai Moshe

Rabbi 'Max Weine

egation Beth Achim

Rabbi. Irwin Groner, Congregation Shaarey Zedek

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