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A hasty flight from Mitzrayim in a state of uncertainty, of personal vulnerability, and of communal and national fragility – grabbing a parcel of matzos from the table and running out into the darkness. But it was not an “everyone-for-themselves” chaotic rabble: each family unit took a package of that simple unleavened dough, and when we reached our first resting place we huddled together under the desert sky and shared our meals with frugal dignity. And each unit expanded to share with others until no one was left out: the Korban Pesach eaten with the matzah is the only mitzvah for which sharing is of the essence – says the Torah in Shemos 12:4 if the family unit is too small for a whole lamb, don’t get a smaller lamb – get a larger family – expand the family unit with guests –with kol dichpin yeiseive’yechol – until everyone has someone with whom to share.  \nAnd what characterised so many sedorim this year, in reality in many places in Israel and in our thoughts throughout Israel and around the world? The sirens sounded and people stood and left the seder table for the bomb shelters – a hasty flight in a state of uncertainty, of personal vulnerability, and of communal and national fragility. But again, in instinctive reenactment of Pesach Mitzrayim, wherever a seder was disturbed, nobody took a single piece of matzah for themselves: they snatched up a box or two, and the shelters were filled with extended families and their new unexpected guests sitting on the floor and sharing the matzah in that same spirit of frugal dignity; and it has perhaps never been easier for celebrants to fulfil the commandment of seeing themselves as if they were really leaving Egypt all over again.  \nAnd not just the first Pesach and the most recent Pesach – b’chol dor vador, in every generation“mah nishtanah” –how insignificant have been the differences of scenery compared to the essential similarity of the play that is acted out year after year on the stage of the unbroken thread ofsedorim through the ages.  \nIn the Nazi death camps of the 1940’s, for months beforehand precious Jewish malochim – many of whom never saw themselves as religious in the slightest way – risked their lives to acquire a few spoons of flour to make a few crumbs of matzoh. Which each of them then took back to eat in secret in a safe corner? No: that would have been a mockery of matzah – they sat on the ground and shared their matzos in frugal dignity, and the stars that lightened the darkness of their tortures were the same stars that watered the ground of the desert with the dew of God’s tears at Pesach Mitzrayim.  \nIn the Soviet labour camps of the 1950’s and 1960’s, for months beforehand precious Jewish malochim – refuseniks imprisoned for love of the Jewish homeland, the Land of Israel, many of whom never saw themselves as religious in the slightest way – risked their lives to acquire a few spoons of flour to make a few crumbs of matzoh. Which each of them then took back to eat in secret ina safe corner? 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