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From the Introduction
...This haggadah poses one major question that most other haggadot do not ask: If, in the face of modern scholarship, we no longer accept the Exodus narrative as historical, but as legend, why do we continue to tell the story? And if we do re-enact the story, how do we maintain our intellectual honesty?
We choose to tell the story still because we embrace the message that enslaved peoples can aspire to freedom. We choose to tell the story as a human drama that recognizes how our ancestors survived suffering and oppression by virtue of the fortitude and resilience of their human endowment. And we choose, also, to tell the story of our ancestors’ journey that has continued to our own day. Passover celebrates our forebears, ancient and modern, who have made the trip to freedom...
We choose to tell the story still because we embrace the message that enslaved peoples can aspire to freedom. We choose to tell the story as a human drama that recognizes how our ancestors survived suffering and oppression by virtue of the fortitude and resilience of their human endowment. And we choose, also, to tell the story of our ancestors’ journey that has continued to our own day. Passover celebrates our forebears, ancient and modern, who have made the trip to freedom...
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