[...] f we are living through a chapter of that same unfolding story (yetzias mitzrayim), we may be closer to the turning point than we think. The signs are there: a world order that feels increasingly unstable; an enemy under mounting pressure that still refuses to yield; a surge of hostility that defies reason. But all that will be over in a moment, as the Divine Will changes it in one stroke.
And so, this year, when we sit at the Seder and say, “In every generation, a person is obligated to see themselves as if they personally left Egypt," we don’t need to stretch our imagination quite so far. For the first time in a long time, it doesn’t feel like ancient history-it feels immediate.
And one day-soon, and all at once-the shift will come. And when it does, those who held their nerve, who stared into the darkness and still believed in the dawn, will simply nod and say: of course. The Exodus never really ended. It has been unfolding all along-until we finally learn to recognize it while we are still inside the story.
Rabbi Dunner is the Senior Rabbi of Beverly Hills Synagogue in California
[excerpt from a longer article https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424741]
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