Hi friends and welcome to the 1840 podcast where each month we explore different topic

balancing modern sensibilities with traditional

sensitivities to give you new approaches to timeless Jewish ideas. I'm your host, David Bischepkin,

and this month we're exploring intergenerational divergence, the annual series we do each year before

Passover. Thank you so much to our series sponsors and friends

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At every Passover Seder, there is something that is missing in the story that we tell over on

Passover. We begin and tell the story in detail going through the Jewish people's slavery in Egypt.

We drink four cups of wine throughout the Seder in order to commemorate the four acts of God taking us and delivering us out from Egypt, and the entire story is laser

focused on that redemption, on that redemption story of God taking us out of Egypt. If you pay close

attention to the Passover Seder, and many people have noticed this and pointed this out,

but you really have to articulate it to fully notice it.

It is quite strange that our entry into the land of Israel,

the ultimate completion of our exile in Egypt, of our servitude in Egypt,

was in order for God to not only take us out of Egypt

and give us the Torah but actually deliver us into Israel. And it is very, very strange how aside

from a quick mention in the song Dayenu, Dai, we know that one, whenever I think of that song, I remember visiting my grandfather at the end of his life

when he was in like a nursing facility and there was a woman who was singing that song with

such gusto and she had a tambourine and I almost feel like this song is the one song that

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