“As we enter the feast of Passover, that of the liberation of Egypt, that of the end of confinement, what can we learn from the Jewish experience in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic that is hitting all our societies?
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The answer is almost entirely contained in this term "Jewish experience", which is both an experiment still in progress and turned towards the future, and just as much a long sedimentation of memory, because drawing its force of survival from vitality from its roots. It is a perpetual questioning without a definitive answer. And we see how our final answers from yesterday are shattered in the face of today's reality.
Permanent questioning is at the heart of the Passover evening that we are celebrating this evening on April 8, just as it must be at the heart of our world if it wants to rise stronger from this fight against this virus.
Ma nichtana, what difference, as we recite on Passover evening, between yesterday and tomorrow?What lessons, or rather, since this is a Jewish tradition, what good questions should we ask ourselves? My nichtana , what
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