Type: Poem

“The annual retelling is like the sharing of all hard stories, / never told the same way twice.”

Rabbi Lisa S. Greene shares an addition to the seder plate for 2024/5784.

This powerful new poem written for Passover 2024 uses the framework of the four children to explore the challenges in our world.

“This is the first year I thought, how old were those children?”

“Where is the waiting Nachshon, Prince of the tribe of Judah / who jumps into the swirling sea…”

“All of the marriages, promises all the lives and deaths behind us all the way back to the Red Sea’s crossing…”

“That frog, / that inconsequential, modest frog, / held our fate in its webbed feet…”

“Now, your breath is within me. / And Kaddish is like a love letter.”