The Haggadah is the most rewritten text in Jewish life, not because the story changes, but because we do. Every year, we arrive with new questions, new wounds, new hopes. And so, we search, sometimes urgently, for a way to make the ancient words speak again, to find ourselves in the embrace of our ancestors, to embrace them in our loving arms.

This year, I find myself returning to a moment from just last week. Before Pesach had formally begun, we at UJA-Federation of NY gathered for a Seder with Holocaust survivors, in partnership with Selfhelp, whose daily work providing Survivors with lives of dignity is the definition of holiness. It is difficult to fully describe what it meant to be in that space last week. The........

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