Holiness Wherever You Find It
When we say the blessing over the first cup of wine we declare the holiness of this moment. This is the first step of the fifteen steps of the Seder. The very next step will be to wash in preparation for the green vegetable. But maybe we should wash before kadesh? Wouldn't it make sense to first preform the cleansing and then, in a state of readiness, declare the holiness of the day?
We learn from this order a profound truth: We are always ready for a holy moment. Not only when things are perfect, which they aren't, or even in good shape, which they aren't always. Holy is come as you are. Because each of us is holy, created in G*d's image. And each of our story is holy. Because our story plays a part in the story we tell tonight. The story of the Israelites breaking free from Egypt. And that story is part of the story of what it means to be human. And what it means to be holy.
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