We have chanted our praise for the redemption of Israel and all humanity.
We have learned the message of the Exodus for our day.
And we have rededicated ourselves to the cause of humanity's freedom from tyranny and oppression.
Each year we conclude stating that we have conducted our Seder with the appropriate intention.
Each year we repeat the same phrase and seem to return to the same place from where we began.
We have a new question to ask:
For what do we wait? Do we express an ideal that we know we will never achieve in its totality? Do we just offer lip service at the end of all these exercises? What is our task tomorrow? How do we proceed?
As we have celebrated this festival tonight, so may we celebrate it, all of us together, next year again-in joy,
in a world which we have helped to bring closer to the Messianic era.
We begin by celebrating our current freedom with song!
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