Every year the Jewish people spend one night discussing our famous departure from Egypt. We eat the same Matzah, drink the same amount of wine, and read the same Haggadah. Yet, the Pesach Seder represents our religion’s most practiced custom. Perhaps the shared collective experience of yearning to break free from hardship explains this phenomenon.

Before the famous exodus no enslaved group had been able to escape Egypt. The long-standing Egyptian empire had a full-service army surrounding the country’s borders. Rabbi Yitzchak Cohen once mentioned Egypt placed guard dogs around their borders to deter slaves from escaping. This........

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