Afikomen: Recognition of a Broken World
The afikomen is a very useful metaphor. A child’s literal search for the afikomen symbolizes our own search for wholeness. We have within us a profound desire for harmony, for feeling at one with our fellow men and women, Prisons symbolize the brokenness of the world. And yet we are tragically aware that we need them. The afikoman is a reminder that, for now, the world is unfixed, that it is, in its own way, a prison, in which even the free are captives.
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