• Feasting for freedom - Physical
• Fasting for liberation - Mental/Spiritual
• hag-haviv - note (p5), rebirth, renewal
• remember: exodus - fully present → future, Messiah
• covenant established
  • promised to Abraham - multiply
  • promised to Jacob
  • promised to Isaac?
• Beginning of relationship between G-d and the Jewish people
• fulfilment of past promises → hope of for the promised future
• Seder = present at liberation (p7)
• re-experience the slavery and redemption that happens every day in our lives
• shape the future through the stories (from/of our past) we tell in our present
• all have our Egypts to leave
• tell it to the children → future generations

Hametz

• yetzer ha’ra
• remove all hametz from our houses and ourselves
• pride

Freedom to subjugation ourselves to the yoke of G-d, rather than to that of Pharoahs or Kings.