Pesach without children is like a cantor without a song, like an actor without any lines, or a storyteller without an audience. – Joe Bobker, And You Thought There Were Only Four: 400 Questions to Make Your Sed

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together. – Léon Blum (1872–1950), Problems of Peace, 1931

Get rid of the old leaven of sin so that you may be a new batch of dough — as you really are. – Bible, ICorinthians 5:7

As for the bitter herbs…. To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point — bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering… – Julia Neuberger, On Being Jewish, 1995