It’s enough. We sing at PassoverPassover is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jewish people's liberation from slavery and Exodus from Egypt. Its Hebrew name is Pesakh. Its name derives from the tenth plague, in which God "passed over" the homes of the Jewish firstborn, slaying only the Egyptian firstborn. Passover is celebrated for a week, and many diaspora Jews celebrate for eight days. The holiday begins at home at a seder meal and ritual the first (and sometimes second) night. Jews tell the story of the Exodus using a text called the haggadah, and eat specific food (matzah, maror, haroset, etc).. Dayenu.
Tapping hands on the table in rhythm.
If the miracles had ended when the Red Sea split.
If there’d been no manna, no SinaiAccording to the Torah, God, in the presence of the Jewish people, gave Moses the Torah on Mount Sinai (Har Sinai)., no Temple.
Dayenu. Enough. To have gotten out of Egypt.
We sing every year in chorus, 15 verses
listing satisfaction, without request for more.
Dayenu. Your bloodwork is the same, not worse.
Dayenu. Your hair did not fall out.
Dayenu. We took a walk by the pond at sunset.
You weren’t too tired for dinner.
Dayenu. We sing now for as long as we can.
originally published in Jewish Literary Journal
