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Dear Ms Drop since I took it upon myself to not only use one word and one hour ago I wrote and told my experience.

But wanting to enlarge upon that I think there is a history of Jews being silenced by Jews. Not asking wiestions or giving a personal interpretation. Many Rabbis and their teachers do not want a congregation that is diverse in thinking. Soon after the Exodus, which the Seder helps us embody that experience, the Jews, a holy nation, had institutionalized non equality. There appeared a priestly class from one of the tribes. They ran the religious show. While Jews could have pilgrimage festivals and celebrations their Shabbot at home they would never be level with the priests. And then you can complicate matters: there appeared a king. A king has subjects that obey him. In a sense Israel had become it’s own Egypt.

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