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The Chief Rabbi's Haggadah by Jonathan Sacks
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This Pesach I'm using a new (to me) Haggada, including 21 short essays by Rabbi Sacks. I'm dipping in and out of the essays, but virtually every page elicits a sob of joy, astonishment, or clarity. The essay "The Missing Fifth" brought me out of my seat and walking the room in excitement. In "The Art of Asking Questions" we learn that "The heroes of faith asked questions of God, and the greater the prophet, the harder the question." (In response to the questions "Why do the righteous [and the innocent] suffer?" the Great Divine's answer is, in effect, "I was about to ask you the same thing.") In "The Unasked Question" Sacks wonders, why did God want us to experience slavery, and to reenact that experience every year? I could go on. But this won't be to everyone's taste. It fits me like my own breath.
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