She has written a number of books inviting both children and adults inside the stories of the Hebrew Bible. Yet the world changed in her lifetime, and in 1974, Sandy Sasso became the second woman in history to be ordained a rabbi. TIPPETT: When Sandy Eisenberg Sasso was a child celebrating Passover at her Orthodox grandmother’s home, she wondered why she was never invited to ask the four questions? The answer was quite simply that she was a girl, not a boy.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Why is it that on all other nights we eat all kinds of herbs, but on this night we eat only bitter herbs? TIPPETT: The word `Passover’ refers specifically to this 10th and final plague after which Pharaoh gave in to Moses’ repeated demand to, `Let my people go.’ On that night, after each Israelite household ate a sacrificial lamb and smeared some blood of that lamb on the lintels of their doors, they were passed over by the angel of death sent by God. And Pharaoh arose in the night with all his courtiers and all the Egyptians because there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead. READER: In the middle of the night, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the cattle. It contains one miracle after the other, from the burning bush where Moses first encounters God to no less than 10 plagues which God exacts on the Egyptians - plagues of gnats, boils, frogs and finally death. It is also full of religious complexity that defies an easy reading. But the actual text, the biblical story, is less a hero story and more a tale of human nature. TIPPETT: Because of its dramatic detail, complete with a great hero in Moses and a great villain in the Egyptian pharaoh, the Exodus has been interpreted by Disney and Cecil B. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Why is it that all other nights during the year we eat either bread or matzah but on this night we eat only matzah?
Before the meal, the youngest child present is invited to ask four established questions.The questions set a tone of inquiry and wonderment at the Passover story. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: Passover begins in a Jewish home with preparations for the Seder, a meal which recalls the ancient Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Why is this night different from all other nights?
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