Passing Over

The second Seder is over and the week of Passover has begun.

The Passover Seder commemorates Exodus but doesn't really recount it. 

Rather the Passover Seder is about duty and memory, the duty to remember and commemorate and personalize. Jews are commanded by the Passover Haggadah to say 'we'. We came out of Egypt. We smeared blood on our door, etc.

In this way Passover isn't a distant event but the central event to Jewish existence.