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Each of us, the Haggadah reminds us, must feel as though we personally were liberated from Mitzrayim, a narrow place. So, too, we must each reach deep down to painful moments of exclusion or invisibility to remember just how the stranger might feel in our midst.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is no theoretical issue. Each Shabbat, and at every communal event, strangers summon up their courage to engage the Jewish community. Maybe they need to say Kaddish for a loved one, or perhaps they just want to learn or join in a social action initiative. Perhaps they don\u2019t feel they fit the mold (a vision of some perfect family perhaps). Whatever the reason, we always have strangers in our midst.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who is supposed to greet those strangers? Whose job is it to make sure they have the right handouts, that they are not sitting alone, that someone is there to talk with them and to introduce them to people already established there?<\/span><\/p>\n

Each one of us was a stranger in Mitzrayim, and each one of us must take the initiative to ensure that no stranger ever feels unwelcome in any Jewish gathering. The first step, then, is to realize that if you don\u2019t look for strangers, no one else will either. If you don\u2019t get up to say, \u201chello, may I sit with you?\u201d no one else will either. It all depends on you. <\/span><\/p>\n

And in summoning the energy and the caring to approach a stranger and to make them feel welcome, know that you are doing more than just making a new friend. Know that you are an ambassador for the Jewish people, and that their estimation of our community will be molded by your deed. Know, beyond that, that you serve as a Shaliach, a messenger of the Holy Blessing One, the God who took a group of strangers into freedom \u2014 because someone had to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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