On Wednesday night, Jews worldwide sit down for the annual Seder, the festive Passover meal we have celebrated every year for about 3,000 years. Before the meal begins, we read from an ancient text known as the Haggadah, with each guest reading a passage as we go around the table.

The Haggadah tells the story of the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt after 400 years of bondage, their wanderings in the Sinai desert, and their arrival 40 years later at their destination, the Promised Land of Israel. It’s composed of passages from the Hebrew Bible, prayers, stories,........

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