We have tasted the new growth of a world released from winter
We have celebrated advances our,
and other peoples of the world,
have made toward freedom from oppression.
We have focused our attention on how each one of us
can become strengthened
to feel,
think and
act so as to take an active role in our own lives.
Each year we repeat the same phrase and seem to return to the same place from where we began.
Yet, if, on reflection, we can state that we have - each of us, in our own individual way - made some progress to draw together the various strands of our lives, then, we can conclude, stating that we have conducted our Seder with the appropriate intention.
Therefore, 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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