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A Yemenite family celebrates Passover on their moshay.

On Passover, We Eat
History, Drink Theology

HAROLD M. SCHULWEIS

Special to The Jewish News

he first word in the
creation of the uni-
verse was God's "Let
there be light!' Therein lies
the hope and faith of Judaism
and the obligation of our peo-
ple — to make the light of
justice and righteousness and
knowledge penetrate the
darkness of our time till the
prophecy be fulfilled, "that
wickedness vanish like smoke
and the earth shall be filled
with knowledge as the waters
cover the sea" (Isaiah 11:9).
We cocreators with God pray
— "Let there be light!'

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Kiddush

We recite the blessing not
over the fruit of the vine —
over the whole grape — but
over the wine, squeezed and
fermented through human
agency. So too the motzi
(blessing over the bread) is
recited not over the sheaves of
barley or wheat but over the
bread, leavened or unleav-
ened, ground and kneaded
and prepared by human
hands. The blessing is over
the product cultivated
through human and divine
cooperation: the givenness of
sun, seed and soil trans-
formed by wisdom and pur-
pose to sustain the body and
rejoice the soul.

Karpas

Passover is both nature and

Rabbi Schulweis is rabbi of Valley
Beth Shalom in Encino,
California.

history. A springtime festival
in the month when kids and
lambs are born, and when the
grain harvest begins with the
cutting of the barley; and the
root-history of our people's
liberation from oppression.
The convergence of spring
and the breaking of the
shackles of slavery signifies a
basic value in nature and in
history: freedom. Vegetative
life submerged beneath the
icy winter breaks forth to
reveal its liberation; human
life fettered by chains of
slavery bursts forth to claim
its freedom. "Those who sow
in tears will reap in joy." We
raise the green parsley out of
the salt of tears and praise
the Power which raises fruit
out of the earth.

Yachatz

We are free but we
remember when we were
slaves. We are whole but we
bring to mind those who are
broken. The middle matzah is
broken but it is the larger
part which is hidden (Zafun).
Because the future will be
greater than the past and
tomorrow's Passover nobler
than yesterday's exodus. The
prospects for the dreamt
future are overwhelming to
the point of making us mute.
So it is in silence, without
blessing, that we break the
matzah and long for its
recovery and our redemption.

`Ha Lachmah'

Written in Aramaic this
statement begins the narra-
tion of the Seder by inviting
the hungry to our table.
Aramaic, Jewish legend has