She Leans Toward Liberation: Commentary on Beginning Passover 5784
She Leans Toward Liberation: Commentary on Beginning Passover 5784
By Rabbi Jonah Rank, President and Rosh Yeshivah of Hebrew Seminary
The child of Sephardic Jews, Judah P. Benjamin—who would one day serve in the Confederacy’s Cabinet during the American Civil War—probably eyed the matzah on his seder plate and heard the same symbol-heavy Aramaic preface to the Passover tale recited by Jews around the world: