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Download two free extracts from Rabbi Sacks' award-winning Pesach machzor and his Haggada - perfect pre-Pesach learning!
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"PESACH AND THE JEWISH TASK" / 
"THE UNASKED QUESTION"

Download two of the essays from Rabbi Sacks' National Jewish Book Award winning Pesach machzor as well as his Haggada.
With Pesach beginning in just over a week, there has never been a better time to invest in copies of the Koren-Sacks Pesach Machzor - winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Council Prize for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience - or the Jonathan Sacks Haggada. Each contains refreshing and insightful commentary to Pesach, together with illuminating essays on the themes and motifs of the Festival of Freedom.
To entice you further, below are links to two of Rabbi Sacks' essays - 'Pesach and the Jewish Task' from the introduction to the machzor, and "The Unasked Question" from the Haggada.

Chag Kasher v'Sameach!

PESACH AND THE JEWISH TASK (from the Koren-Sacks Machzor)
Pesach is the greatest, oldest, most transformative story of hope ever told. It tells of how an otherwise undistinguished group of slaves found their way to freedom from the greatest and longest lived empire of their time, indeed of any time. It tells the utterly revolutionary story of how the supreme Power intervened in history to liberate the supremely powerless. It is the story a hundred generations of our ancestors handed on to their children, and they to theirs, and the mere act of telling and reliving it helped make them the most tenacious people in history, never losing hope even after losing almost everything else. It is a story of the defeat of probability by the power of possibility. It is the story of the victory of faith over might. It is the Jewish story: God’s greatest gift to us, our greatest gift to the world. It is who and what we are: the people of hope.
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THE UNASKED QUESTION (from the Jonathan Sacks Haggada)
Pesach is a night of questions, but there is one we do not ask, and it is significant. Why was there a Pesach in the first place? Why the years of suffering and slavery? Israel was redeemed. It regained its freedom. It returned to the land its ancestors had been promised centuries before. But why the necessity of exile? Why did God not arrange for Abraham or Isaac or Jacob simply to inherit the land of Canaan? If the Israelites not gone down to Egypt in the days of Joseph, there would have been no suffering and no need for redemption. Why Pesach?
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