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REVITALISING TRADITION

Every April during Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt, I think about how the Seder meal, its symbolic foods and the prayers that extol them are the very same foods and prayers that celebrants partook of thousands of years ago.

In other words, I think about heritage. It is nothing short of astonishing to consider that something we do today is directly

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