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Can we imagine a day when we won’t celebrate the Pesach seder? The prophet in this chapter says that this is exactly what will happen:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAssuredly, a time is coming\u2014declares the LORD\u2014when it shall no more be said, \u2018As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt,\u2019 but rather, \u2018As the LORD lives who brought the Israelites out of the northland, and out of all the lands to which He had banished them.\u2019 For I will bring them back to their land, which I gave to their fathers\u201d (verses 14-15).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jerusalem Talmud (Brachot 11:a) struggles to understand this statement, explaining it in a parable: <\/span><\/p>\n

This is like someone who was walking along the way and was attacked by a wolf. He started telling everybody about his (miraculous) recovery but then, he was attacked by a lion. He was saved from the lion, and started telling everybody about that, when a snake attacked him. When he was saved from the snake, he dropped the two earlier stories and started telling about his (miraculous) recovery from the snake. And so it is with Israel: the latter trouble would make them forget the earlier ones”.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is to say, it is not the Exodus from Egypt will be forgotten all together, but that the following miracles will be so great, that there would be no need to tell about that. Just like Jacob’s name was changed to Israel, making “Israel” primary and “Jacob” secondary, and so it is for us with our history. Leaving Egypt was amazing: the plagues, the sea splitting\u2026 what a wow, we can’t stop talking about it every day, every meal, every Shabbat and holiday. But one day, we’ll be able to see that “Egypt” was just one “wolf”, and we’re saved from greater troubles yet. Would that be what we’ve seen in the last century, for example?<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi David Shlomo Eibeschitz, born in what is now Ukraine in 1755 and known by his book, the <\/span>Arvei Nachal<\/span><\/em>, ties this verse with a verse in Hosea (2:18) and offers a different perspective. Hosea says, “on that day you will call me <\/span>Ishi<\/em> <\/span>(my man) and no longer <\/span>Ba’ali<\/em> <\/span>(my husband)”, namely, that currently we use names that are not proper and not fully describing the other, because of the state we’re in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Likewise, in our prayer, there are praises and blessings as well as “imperfect words”, like “Pharaoh” and “Egypt” and “other gods”. Indeed, since the first human’s transgression, things are not pure any more, as the sparks of holiness got mixed inside the “shell” (which needs to be removed), like our world where good and bad are mixed. But, one day, we will purify our language. The word “Egypt” will not be mentioned anymore; we will only refer to our redemptions vaguely by saying “northlands.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Interestingly, in recent years, we have begun seeing a <\/span>Seder Yom Ha’atzmaut<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and a <\/span>Haggada for Yom Hashoah<\/span><\/em>. 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