And The Jewish Story Is told Every Year..for over 3000 years

foreign 1947 David ben-gorian the first prime minister of Israel stood and addressed the United Nations 300 years ago he said a ship called the mayflower set sail to the new world this was a great event in the history of England yet I wonder if there was one Englishman who knew at what time the ship set sail do the English know how many people embarked on this Voyage what quality of bread did they eat yet more than 3 300 years ago the Jews left Egypt every Jew in the world even in America or Soviet Russia knows on exactly what day they left the 15th of the month of Nisan and everyone knows what kind of bread the Jews ate matzah it must have been a good speech because the United Nations voted and seven months later the modern state of Israel was born matzah it's the bread of Oppression that our ancestors ate as slaves in Egypt it's also the bread that symbolizes Freedom the bread they ate and took with them when they left and for over a hundred Generations since then the Passover seder has opened with the stirring words this is the matzah that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt all who are hungry come and eat perhaps to remind us that freedom is not complete until we share what we have with others the former Chief Rabbi of the UK Rabbi sacks once said that as Jews we don't live in the past we live with the past this is the Jewish faith this is our story never stop telling it over and never stop living it foreign