The Story We Choose: Narratives, Identity, and the Meaning of Pesach
Two Rabbis, Three Opinions · Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein and Rabbi Simi Lerner
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Show Notes
As Pesach approaches, we prepare to retell the story of the Exodus. But what if the Seder is about far more than simply recalling the past?
In this episode, Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Simi Lerner explore the idea that we do not encounter facts in a vacuum. We see the world through a framework, through a narrative that gives shape and meaning to everything we experience. In a time when competing narratives about war, politics, and society are so stark, the Torah's mandate to relive the Exodus takes on renewed significance.
The Seder is not merely a recounting of history. It is an act of formation. We are not just telling a story. We are shaping the way we and our children understand HaKadosh Baruch Hu, history, and our place in the world.
At the same time, the Seder is not meant to be a purely intellectual exercise. It is an experience that must be lived and felt. The task of a parent is not only to convey ideas, but to pass along a way of seeing that can endure over time.
Pesach thus becomes the annual opportunity to reaffirm the narrative that defines us, not as an abstract belief, but as a lived reality. It is not only the story we tell. It is the story we inhabit.