During this year's Seder, some may mourn only for Israeli lives lost or held hostage in the war in Gaza. But the Talmud insists on seeing all life as priceless.
Monday night, as Passover begins, Jews around the world celebrate their ancestors’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt. That liberty was hardly cost-free. Participants in the Seder will recount the 10 plagues by symbolically dipping a finger in their glass of wine and removing a drop, one for each debacle. This recalls the destruction that paved the way to freedom.
But if the Passover Seder is to teach us anything with its many reminders of the depths of human pain and suffering, it should be that we must renounce such false choices. “The test of a first-rate intelligence,” as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it so well, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” The same can be said for opposing feelings.
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