The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.