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Its enactment is not confined to the dining rooms of our homes alone; it has been embraced by the world at large, and is continually being reenacted on the stage of mankind by all who seek avenues to assert their condemnation of oppression and tyranny, by all who labor in the vineyard of the Lord searching for freedom and peace.</p>\n\n<p>Although it is the Pharaoh of old who is the tyrant of the Haggadah, it is not he alone of whom we speak tonight. We speak this evening of other tyrants and other tyrannies as well. We speak</p>\n\n<p>Of the tyranny of poverty</p>\n\n<p>                         And the tyranny of privation,</p>\n\n<p>Of the tyranny of wealth</p>\n\n<p>                         And the tyranny of war,</p>\n\n<p>Of the tyranny of power</p>\n\n<p>                        And the tyranny of despair,</p>\n\n<p>Of the tyranny of disease</p>\n\n<p>And the tyranny of time,</p>\n\n<p> Of the tyranny of ignorance and the tyranny of color.</p>\n\n<p>To all. 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The Haggadah explains <a href=\"http://www.reformjudaism.org/interactive-seder-plate\">the foods on the seder plate</a>, recounts the highlights of the Exodus, and <a href=\"http://www.reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/passover/passover-melodies-songs-remember-songs-enjoy\">includes songs</a>, prayers, questions and vignettes.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this Passover eve we see the world in a new light.</p>\n\n<p>We add new spirit to our lives.</p>\n\n<p>We taste a new time for peace.</p>\n\n<p>We rest from desire for gain and ambition for things.</p>\n\n<p>We raise our eyes to look beyond time and space and toward eternity.</p>\n\n<p>May we come to always see the world in a new light.\"</p>\n\n<p>The story of Passover, or Pesach, has been told countless times over thousands of years. But each time the story sounds a little different, for the faces seated around the Seder table have changed and the experiences they bring with them add a special, new quality to a very old tradition.</p>\n\n<p>Pesach is a time for joy and relaxation, and a time for the renewal of courage. It is a time when we reflect on the past, while listening to tales of the Jews enslaved in Egypt. And Pesach is a time to look toward the future, when we can all live in freedom, as we choose, with no fear of oppression.</p>\n\n<p>I'Tonight is a time to catch our breath.</p>\n\n<p>Whatever we have been doing, making, working, creating . . .</p>\n\n<p>Tonight is a time to catch our breath. 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