The Poetry of Passover

The most important stories are better than true.

Some old and new thoughts on the season—revised and added to from my old blog…

Here it is, Passover. As usual, I get irritated by the literalists—the historical literalists who insist that the Exodus must have happened as written for it to have any meaning, and the ritual literalists, who insist on leading the Seder as though every page of the Haggadah m…