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As If You Yourself Walked Out

The Rambam never asks you to remember the Exodus on Seder night. He asks you to present yourself as someone walking out of slavery right now. Why is remembering not enough?

Chametz u'Matzah 7Thursday, July 16, 2026

As If You Yourself Walked Out

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About This Talk

Chapter 7 of Chametz u'Matzah is the blueprint of the Seder: the mitzvah to tell the story, the questions designed to wake up children, the four cups, the reclining, the charoset and the maror. Underneath the choreography is one radical demand, that in every generation a person must present himself as if he personally left Egypt tonight.