This traditional up-beat Passover song is over one thousand years old. The earliest full text of the song occurs in the first medieval Haggadah, which is part of the ninth-century Seder Rav Amram. During the most horrible of times, the Holocaust, Dayenu was sung in the original. I created the Rosenberg English Holocaust Haggadah for Passover which is a great tribute to the holocaust survivors which offers a unique compilation of stories, essays, articles and poems from holocaust survivors and their children and grandchildren. Each story is remarkable. A variety of suggested questions and discussions are presented for you to share with your family at the seder table. I will add a major section regarding Oct. 7. I hope to accomplish this for next Passover.
Passover is a reliving of the past. When a someone attends the seder it is as if one has personally gone out of Egypt, one is living through all the events of that era. One is reliving being enslaved, then reliving being liberated, and entering the land of Israel. We are now reliving the worst catastrophe since the Shoah, Oct.7
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